Neema Griffin is a Managing Director with Teneo’s Financial Advisory business, having joined Teneo following its acquisition of KPMG’s Cayman Islands Restructuring business. Neema started her career in the UK and moved to the Cayman Islands in 2015.
Neema has over 18 years of financial advisory and insolvency experience with a specialism in contentious and complex insolvencies, involving high value litigation, fraud investigations and international asset tracing, personal bankruptcies and fund insolvencies. Neema’s wider financial advisory experience includes solvency reviews, M&A mandates and regulatory advisory.
Since moving to the Cayman Islands, Neema’s industry focus has been on financial services. Neema is an insolvency appointment taker in the Cayman Islands and is a UK licensed insolvency practitioner.
Select Project Experience:
- Cazoo Group Limited – Joint Official Liquidator of the Cayman Islands, debt issuing holding company of the Cazoo group of companies based in the UK.
- Asia Innovations Group – Joint Official Liquidator of a Cayman holding company of a global group of technology and social media focused companies.
- Project Julien – Provisional liquidation of a Bermuda holding company with interests in an oil production entity in Madagascar.
- Premier Assurance Group – Regulator instigated liquidation of a large provider of life and health insurance products.
- Premium Point Group – Official Liquidation of eight Cayman entities whose investment manager was investigated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
- China Fishery Group – a complex and multi-jurisdictional provisional liquidation of Cayman Islands registered entity with primary business dealings in Hong Kong and Peru.
- WGF Feeder Fund – the official liquidation of a Cayman Islands investment grade wine fund with assets in France and the majority of creditors based in Asia.
- Vantage Drilling Company –a post chapter 11 official liquidation of a Cayman Islands’ registered company in the oil and drilling industry.
- Neema has led number of voluntary liquidations of solvent investment vehicles with outstanding regulatory reporting obligations, working closely with service providers to facilitate the timely winding up of these structures and distribution of funds to stakeholders in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands.