Chris Newton

Practice Areas

Chris is the Managing Partner of Maples and Calder's British Virgin Islands office and is also co-head of the firm's Corporate and Finance teams. He has a broad corporate and finance practice with particular expertise in restructuring as well as acquisition, asset, project and real estate finance, advising financial institutions, sponsors, investors and borrowers. Chris has substantial experience advising in distressed credit situations including both consensual work outs and contentious enforcements.

In addition to his finance practice, Chris advises on debt capital markets transactions and plays an active role in the public equity group, advising companies listing on the North American exchanges as well as bidders and targets in acquisitions. Chris regularly advises a number of key clients around the ongoing requirements of public companies.

Chris' clients include high profile Canadian, Chinese, UK and US financial institutions, investment funds and corporates.