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Eleanor Fisher is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Chair of the firm’s International Financial Centres (IFC) practice, based in the Cayman Islands.

Eleanor helps international companies and their stakeholders navigate financial challenges. She is an experienced insolvency and restructuring professional with over 25 years of experience working in financial advisory in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Prior to Teneo, she was a Strategy and Transactions Partner at EY.

Eleanor has been appointed by courts in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, BVI and the Bahamas to oversee the restructuring, liquidation or receivership of businesses across a range of sectors, including Financial Services (banking, insurance, investment funds), Oil & Gas, Crypto, Manufacturing, Hospitality and Real Estate. She has also been appointed by regulators to take control, or undertake regulatory reviews, of licensed financial services businesses.

In addition to these appointments, Eleanor has served as an independent director to companies under financial stress and acted as scheme supervisor to implement debt restructuring plans. She was also the former Chair of the Cayman Islands Institute of Professional Accountants Committee of Insolvency Practitioners and served on the Cayman Islands Insolvency Rules Committee.

Eleanor was previously recognised as the “Who’s Who Legal’s Restructuring & Insolvency Advisers Expert of the Year.” She is an Accredited Mediator as well as a Chartered Accountant of England and Wales.