About

Provided by Appleby

In the corporate finance space, our team advise on a full spectrum of acquisition and leveraged financing, loan financing and bespoke structures, including mergers and acquisitions, public to private deals, corporate finance and restructurings. Clients include all major banks, public companies and financial institutions. We also continue to dominate the fund finance lending space, particularly in subscription finance. In the structured finance market, our practice includes over a third of the CLO market handling not only a large number of new issuance CLOS but also refinancing and re-set transactions; representing premier managers and all the major underwriters. Our corporate restructuring team act as both company counsel and for creditors and creditor committees, applying expert knowledge and experience and assisting clients with situations involving financially distressed companies; using both Cayman and US restructuring tools. Our teams also has an in-depth knowledge and are leaders in Cayman cross-border mergers and acquisitions and has a market leading equity capital markets practice, handling many of the biggest and complex transactions in recent years. We also advise our clients with regard to regulatory matters including compliance.
Alerts to clients on the introduction of new regulations and changes to the law which affect their business are delivered regularly by our team.

Chambers Review

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Corporate & Finance - Cayman Islands

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Appleby has a well-regarded finance practice acting for an impressive list of financial institutions. The firm regularly represents underwriters in structured finance transactions, including CLOs. It possesses further strengths in fund finance, as well as debt capital markets and derivatives issuances. The firm's finance expertise is complemented by a sound understanding of M&A and regulatory issues.

Work Highlights

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  • Appleby was Cayman counsel to administrative agent Citizens Bank on the provision of a USD145 million credit facility provided to a debt fund administered by a global investment manager.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Benjamin Woolf
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Benjamin Woolf
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Band 1
Benjamin Woolf comes highly recommended for his strengths in Cayman structured finance mandates, particularly CLOs. He is also very capable when it comes to mergers, acquisitions and debt capital markets issuances.

Ben is the best Cayman lawyer in the CLO business. He is extremely commercial and provides great service to his clients.

I find Ben Woolf and his team to be very resourceful. The team is an excellent partner on CLO dissolutions and is good at teaching clients how to navigate the Cayman process.

Simon Raftopoulos
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Simon Raftopoulos
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Band 1
Simon Raftopoulos is a well-established figure in the Cayman Islands and leads Appleby's corporate team within the jurisdiction. He is also extremely experienced in equity finance as well as fund finance, with regular roles advising financial institutions on their provision of credit to private equity funds and related entities such as investment advisers.

Simon is always available to answer questions, and he is good at explaining details in lay terms. I regularly leverage Simon for feedback on broader market concepts and legal updates.

Simon is a longstanding legend in the industry who provides great service and is a pleasure to work with.

Simon is a very well-rounded, business-minded and sophisticated attorney.

Caroline Barton
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Caroline Barton
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Band 3
Caroline Barton heads Appleby's banking and asset finance group, in which position she has significant experience advising borrowers as well as lenders. In addition to finance work she is also well accustomed to advising on capital markets transactions, including the issuance of American depositary shares.

Caroline is a great lawyer and very easy to work with.

Caroline Barton is smart, diligent and available, with great commercial insight. She is also creative, quick with solutions and great to work with.

Georgina Pullinger
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Georgina Pullinger
3
Band 3
Georgina Pullinger is active on a wide range of financing mandates, which includes numerous lending and fund finance matters. Her work regularly sees her acting on behalf of leading global investment banks.

Georgie and her associates are extremely responsive, very thorough and also very commercial. They do a fantastic job at identifying issues, providing options and suggesting commercial solutions.

Georgina Pullinger is responsive, knowledgeable and also commercial. She understands the commercial objectives of clients and is great at fund finance.

Georgina is fantastically responsive and constructive in problem-solving to drive towards commercial solutions.

Jacob MacAdam
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Jacob MacAdam
3
Band 3
Jacob MacAdam advises international banks, corporate clients and private equity firms on a variety of financing arrangements, M&A and capital markets activities, as well as corporate restructurings.

He is exceptional in all areas.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Cayman Islands

Corporate & Finance

Benjamin Woolf
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Benjamin Woolf
1
Band 1
Simon Raftopoulos
1
Simon Raftopoulos
1
Band 1
Caroline Barton
3
Caroline Barton
3
Band 3
Georgina Pullinger
3
Georgina Pullinger
3
Band 3
Jacob MacAdam
3
Jacob MacAdam
3
Band 3

Members

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Adam Johnson

Alexandra Low

Ann-Alecia Duval

Appolina Winton

Dean Bennett

Matt Mulry

Menelik Miller

Miriam Smyth

Sailaja Alla

Tamanna Keir

Vance Power