“[Gemma’s] growing ability to step back and advise her clients according to the broader commercial context of their dispute is what has really helped set her [apart] from her peers.”
Gemma Lardner is a partner in Ogier’s Dispute Resolution team in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and focuses her practice on restructuring and corporate recovery matters. She specialises in formal insolvency and restructuring procedures, statutory remedies, and investor and shareholder rights/actions, with experience in distressed funds and private-equity disputes. Ms. Lardner’s experience includes both instructing and appearing in numerous key cases for the development of the insolvency, restructuring and corporate recovery regime in the Cayman Islands in the Grand Court, Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and Privy Council. She is chair of the Cayman Islands IWIRC network, was nominated as one of INSOL International’s ‘Future Forty’ in 2022 and was awarded the RISA Next Gen member of the year in 2021. She is also ranked as a Key Lawyer by Legal 500 Caribbean and an ‘Up and Coming’ Partner in Chambers & Partners. Ms. Lardner is admitted to practice in the Cayman Islands, New South Wales, Australia and the Australian High Court. She received her law degree from the University of Sydney