Matthew Harders
Senior Associate | Cayman
Insolvency and Corporate Disputes
Overview
Matthew is a highly skilled commercial litigation attorney with a focus on insolvency, restructuring, and debt recovery. He joined Collas Crill's Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team as a Senior Associate in October 2024 and is based in the Cayman Islands.
Experience
Matthew has substantial experience in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring, financial services and general commercial litigation practice, including complex contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, trusts and trust management, urgent and interlocutory injunctions, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, restructuring and schemes of arrangement, asset recovery, secured and unsecured debt recovery and security enforcement.
Matthew practiced in Australia for more than five years before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2023. Previously a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Litigation team of Thomson Geer Lawyers, Matthew was the only solicitor within Thomson Geer engaged directly by upper management to recover debts owed to the Firm on a national basis, successfully recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to the Firm, slashing the Firm's Bad Debts liability.
Background
In 2017 Matthew completed a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (with Distinction), a Bachelor of Business (Business Economics) and Bachelor of Letters (Italian) at The Flinders University of South Australia.
Matthew worked as a summer Clerk at Kain Lawyers, a boutique corporate and commercial law firm based in Adelaide, South Australia, before moving to Thomson Geer.
After graduating, Matthew remained engaged with The Flinders University of South Australia as an industry mentor, providing direct one-on-one or small-group mentorship to law students, as well as speaking on various educational and industry panels hosted by the University.