Kehinde is Head of Insolvency and a founding partner of ASW.

Kehinde has practised in Bermuda since 1995, having previously practised as a corporate/commercial lawyer for three years respectively at Turner Kenneth Brown and Stephenson Harwood in London; and for four years at the UK Department of Trade & Industry advising on insolvency law and policy.

Kehinde particular experience is in corporate restructuring and insolvency. She has advised liquidators, provisional liquidators, creditors and regulators, in relation to numerous local and cross-border insolvencies and restructurings and schemes of arrangement. These include The Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance Company Ltd, Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd, the Global Crossing Group, Loral Space & Communications Ltd,  Trenwick Group Ltd., Northern Offshore Ltd , PEG Reinsurance Company Ltd and Hatteras Reinsurance Ltd.

Publications and Presentations

• Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2008 – Bda chapter; “Chapter 15 Recognition of Bermuda Proceedings after Bear Sterns” – INSOL World 2008;
• “Recognition Woes” – The Review Bermuda Legal Guide 2008;
• “Bermuda is a Familiar World” – The Insurance Receiver 2006;
• “Cross-border restructurings involving parallel proceedings in Bermuda and the US” -Euromoney Global Insolvency & Restructuring Yearbook 2004/05;
• She authored the Bda. chapter for the annual Insolvency and Restructuring handbook published by Law Business Research in its Getting the Deal Through series from 2001- 2004 and co-wrote the Bermuda Chapter in the IFLR “In-House Counsel’s Guide to Insurance and Reinsurance 2003”.

Reported Cases:

• Belvedere Insurance Company Limited (in liquidation) v Caliban Holdings Limited  [2000] Bda LR 42 and [2001] Bda LR 2;
• Re ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited [1999] Bda LR 69;
• Walsh and Taal v Horizon Bank International Limited (in provisional liquidation) [2006] Bda LR 42;
• Re LaSalle Re Holdings Ltd (in liquidation) [2006] Bda LR 55;
• Discover Reinsurance Co v P.E.G. Reinsurance Company Ltd  [2006] Bda LR 88 and [2007] Bda LR 20

Additional Information:

Kehinde is listed in the Euromoney Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers (www.expertguides.com) and internationally recognised in Legal 500, Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? and Who’s Who Legal 2010 (for Insolvency & Restructuring).