Professional Bio:

Nienke is an attorney who specialises in insolvency and restructuring litigation and advice and commercial disputes. Her practice consists of high value and multi-party disputes and litigation, and the cases she is instructed on often include cross-border and multi-jurisdictional elements, including: Ascentra Holdings, Inc. (in Official Liquidation) v Ryunosuke Yoshida & ors. and In re Silicon Valley Bank (in Official Liquidation).

Nienke is also called to the Bar of England & Wales, and she worked as a barrister in London at a leading set of the Commercial Chancer Bar, before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2021. She is a highly experienced advocate with an extensive background in both corporate and personal insolvency matters as well as large-scale commercial litigation, including Robert Tchenguiz & ors. v Grant Thornton & ors. and Chesterfield United Inc (in liquidation) & anor. v Deutsche Bank AG & ors.

Nienke is a Fellow of INSOL International, a member of the IWIRC Cayman Board, a member of the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen, a member of the RISA Cayman Education Committee, and an honouree of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s “40 Under 40”. Nienke obtained degrees from Harvard Law School, the University of Oxford (New College), L’Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris), and Leiden University.