Stephen Leontsinis
Partner | Cayman | BVI
Stephen Leontsinis is a charismatic practice leader and a formidable advocate. His strategic input into restructuring and insolvency engagements is second to none.
Chambers Global Guide 2025Stephen is highly collaborative, has solid technical skills and never loses sight of the commercial objectives. He is very solution orientated.
Legal 500Stephen Leontsinis is a superb litigator and great leader of this growing team, which he has quickly established as a go-to litigation practice.
Legal 500Exceptionally good at seeing the big picture and working strategically to meet necessary goals.
Chambers and PartnersStephen is a fantastic leader of his team, a great advocate for the firm, and an excellent technician.
Legal 500 2024Stephen has an excellent strategic mind. He is a stand-out advocate who is equally effective in the boardroom or behind the scenes.
Legal 500 2022Stephen is a phenomenal advocate who is very astute, commercially minded and results-driven.
Chambers Global Guide 2022Stephen is outstanding at stakeholder management and business development.
Legal 500 2022Very good and commercial operator with a very personable manner and unique ability to bring opposing sides together.
Chambers and PartnersStephen is standout practitioner – drives culture of the firm which is a USP in their way of working collaboratively.
Legal 500 2022Clients find Stephen Leontsinis 'client-focused and pragmatic.'
Chambers and PartnersHe really understands from a practical perspective what is in the best interests of the client and how all of the pieces of a dispute fit together, often juggling multiple perspectives and viewpoints.
Chambers Global 2023Superb – the best litigator in Cayman.
Legal 500 2024Leading individual.
Legal 500His knowledge of the Cayman market and all its main players is second to none.
Chambers Global Guide 2022He is an excellent advocate, with a calm and reassuring courtroom manner that resonates well with the Cayman judiciary.
Chambers Global Guide 2025
Stephen has a demonstrated history of advocacy in the practice of corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on offshore insolvency and restructuring of companies. Stephen is qualified in South Africa, England and Wales, Cayman and BVI.
Experience
Stephen's practice has a strong focus on company law including corporate insolvency; schemes of arrangements; capital reductions; shareholder disputes; director's liability; international asset tracing; the enforcement of foreign judgments; worldwide Mareva injunctions, Anton Piller orders, and Norwich Pharmacal orders.
Stephen has significant contentious litigation experience arising from the representation of both liquidators, shareholders and creditors of companies and hedge funds including the claw back of fraudulent conveyances and undue preferences, allegations of investment fraud and investment manager disputes.
Since he began heading up our team of Cayman litigators, Stephen has grown the team from two to eight lawyers, all with a strong background in insolvency and restructuring matters. Prior to joining the firm Stephen spent two and a half years in Miami as a member of a boutique litigation firm in the United States which focused on cross border insolvency and trust disputes.
Background
Stephen was called as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa in 2003 and has subsequently qualified as a solicitor-advocate of the High Court of England and Wales and a solicitor-advocate of the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean. He was called to the Cayman Islands Bar in January 2009 and BVI Bar in 2013.
Stephen has been ranked in Chambers and Partners since 2018 and recognised as a Leading Partner in Legal 500 since 2021.
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Collas Crill's teams in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands have received another strong set of rankings in the 2025 Legal 500 Caribbean directory. The firm is consistently ranked across all of its key practice areas, having moved up from...
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