
Cayman Islands
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands, KY1-9006
Cayman Islands
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands, KY1-9006
Ilona Groark is admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands and as a solicitor-advocate in England. She advises clients in complex, ultra-high value cross-border disputes typically with a Caribbean nexus and invariably in circumstances where there are allegations of fraud or misconduct and a need to safeguard or recover assets across multiple-jurisdictions.
Ms. Groark acts for and against large international corporations, institutional investors, general partners, investment managers, court-appointed officeholders, trustees and other financial professionals. She has extensive experience in obtaining time-sensitive freezing injunctions and deploying aggressive on- and offshore discovery strategies in support of domestic and foreign-proceedings.
Before joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. Groark practiced at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Ogier, where her clients included the administrators of Nortel’s EMEA estate, the Royal Bank of Scotland and its former directors, and the Tajik State Unitary Enterprise, Tajik Aluminum Company.
Admissions
- Attorney-at-law, Cayman Islands
- Solicitor, England & Wales (with Higher Rights of Audience)
Education
- University of Cambridge (Downing College), MA, Law
- BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course, Distinction
- Regent’s University, Accredited Mediator
Clerkships
- Lord Justice Jackson, Court of Appeal of England & Wales (2009) – Judicial assistant to the Review of Civil Litigation Costs in England & Wales
- Kobre & Kim, Peter Tyers-Smith Earns Recognitions in The Legal 500’s “Cayman Islands: Dispute Resolution”
- Kobre & Kim Helps PRC Clients Enforce US $171M Award in BVI
- Jalil Asif KC, Peter Tyers-Smith and Ilona Groark Pen ICLG Chapter on Enforcing Foreign Judgments in Cayman
- British entrepreneur Harvey Boulter exonerated after UK liquidators’ allegations of fraud are rejected in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
- Kobre & Kim Co-Sponsors 2021 Inclusion Cayman All-Inclusive Breakfast Fundraiser
- Kobre & Kim Cayman Lawyers Elected to RISA Leadership Posts
Professional & Community Involvement
- Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association, Member
- INSOL International, Member
- Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA), the Cayman Islands Chapter of INSOL, Membership & Communications Committee, Member
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, Member
- 100 Women in Finance, Member
Credentials
Admissions
- Attorney-at-law, Cayman Islands
- Solicitor, England & Wales (with Higher Rights of Audience)
Education
- University of Cambridge (Downing College), MA, Law
- BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course, Distinction
- Regent’s University, Accredited Mediator
Clerkships
- Lord Justice Jackson, Court of Appeal of England & Wales (2009) – Judicial assistant to the Review of Civil Litigation Costs in England & Wales
News
- Kobre & Kim, Peter Tyers-Smith Earns Recognitions in The Legal 500’s “Cayman Islands: Dispute Resolution”
- Kobre & Kim Helps PRC Clients Enforce US $171M Award in BVI
- Jalil Asif KC, Peter Tyers-Smith and Ilona Groark Pen ICLG Chapter on Enforcing Foreign Judgments in Cayman
- British entrepreneur Harvey Boulter exonerated after UK liquidators’ allegations of fraud are rejected in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
- Kobre & Kim Co-Sponsors 2021 Inclusion Cayman All-Inclusive Breakfast Fundraiser
- Kobre & Kim Cayman Lawyers Elected to RISA Leadership Posts
Professional & Community Involvement
- Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association, Member
- INSOL International, Member
- Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA), the Cayman Islands Chapter of INSOL, Membership & Communications Committee, Member
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, Member
- 100 Women in Finance, Member
"Senior associate Ilona Groark is always responsive, no matter the time of day" -- The Legal 500