Simon Dickson

Partner at Mourant (Cayman Islands)

Speaker

Simon is a Partner in the Litigation and Insolvency team in our Cayman Islands office with extensive experience in insolvency and restructuring matters, valuation disputes and fraud and asset tracing. Simon is instructed by financial institutions in respect of the largest and most complex disputes currently before the Courts. In the last decade, Simon has acted in most of the major insolvency matters including Madoff, Sphinx, Belmont and DD Growth and currently acts for the creditors in the liquidations of Platinum Partners, the Direct Lending Income Fund and the collapse of the Abraaj Group. He has also advised in other high profile matters including Zohar Funds, Luckin Coffee, China Fishery Group, Ocean Rig and Founding Partners. Simon has acted for a number of investment funds in fair value appraisal cases most recently in in the appraisal of Sina Corporation.

In Chambers and Partners 2025 a source commented that "Simon pays great attention to detail. He is meticulous, thinks deeply and is a very good lawyer who always has a good eye and excellent judgement." He is ranked as a Leading Partner in Legal 500 Caribbean 2025. Another source comments. "Simon Dickson is an outstanding lawyer, a great tactician and brilliant with clients. Discussing legal issues with him always produces additional insights and he is great at seeing the big picture in terms of litigation strategy. He also has acute commercial instincts and is brilliant at working with clients to identify strategic objectives and how they can be accomplished