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With more than 300 partners and associates worldwide, you can choose to work with any of our corporate lawyers practising British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law from a convenient location across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia and be confident that Maples and Calder has the knowledge and experience needed for even the most complex financial transactions, with the resources to meet the toughest deadlines.

Our Cayman Islands finance team has consistently maintained top rankings across the leading legal directories, and featured as the leading counsel to issuers in global league tables for CDO/CLOs and repackaging issuances, including FactSet and Dealogic, among others.

Chambers Review

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Corporate & Finance - Cayman Islands

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What the Team is Known For

Maples Group has a highly distinguished transactional team with a remarkable market share in the Cayman Islands. The firm possesses expertise in M&A and private equity as well as takeovers, securitisations, note issuances and IPOs. Its deep bench of lawyers has a formidable reputation for its work advising on CLOs, and regularly acts on multi-jurisdictional matters alongside colleagues in several other key markets including the BVI and Republic of Ireland.

Work Highlights

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  • Maples Group acted for Griffin Global Asset Management on the debut, USD1.7 billion bond issuance by its subsidiary, GGAM Finance.

Strengths

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The transactional group at Maples is consistently committed to true excellence in client service. They are always happy to assist and responsive to correspondence and requests.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

Maples has extensive expertise in the Cayman market, and is able to leverage its global resources for larger projects. It also communicates information and work products in a timely and effective way.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

Maples provide dedicated service. The team is very friendly and easy to work with.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

They make the complex simple and don’t confuse us with lawyers' jargon. A key strength is their phenomenal line-up - they work hard to train and develop and have a fantastic in-house growth regime.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

The Maples team is very big so they have depth and strong market knowledge. They can assess market trends well and are also super-responsive and extremely quick and thorough.

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Global

Notable Practitioners

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Matthew Gardner
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Matthew Gardner
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Eminent Practitioners
Matthew Gardner is adept at representing public and private companies in M&A, joint ventures and capital markets transactions. He currently serves as Cayman Islands managing partner and as head of the firm's Cayman corporate department.
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Scott Macdonald
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Scott Macdonald
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Eminent Practitioners

Scott Macdonald is highly experienced in Cayman Islands structured finance and CLO transactions, as well as regulatory and compliance mandates.

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Suzanne Correy
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Suzanne Correy
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Band 1
Suzanne Correy assists clients with the Cayman aspects of a wide range of M&A and capital markets work. Her experience also includes high-value IPO transactions.
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Tina Meigh
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Tina Meigh
Head of Corporate & Finance
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Band 1

Head of Maples' global finance team, Tina Meigh is a well-established lawyer who regularly advises on fund finance transactions. She also has extensive experience in all aspects of bank lending and derivatives.

I absolutely love working with Tina and her team. She is my go-to for all things Cayman.

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Jonathon Meloy
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Jonathon Meloy
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Band 2
Jonathon Meloy represents clients in an array of capital markets and corporate finance transactions. He is especially adept at advising on Cayman Islands aircraft finance structures.
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Anthony Philp
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Band 3
Anthony Philp has considerable experience in debt capital markets and securitisation matters, having had lead roles on a number of very high-value transactions of late.

Anthony and his team are wonderful to work with.

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Daniel Lee
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Band 3

Daniel Lee leads the Cayman Islands corporate team. He advises on a wide range of mergers, capital markets issuances and corporate governance issues.

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Finn O'Hegarty
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Finn O'Hegarty
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Band 3
Finn O'Hegarty is noted for his assured oversight of the full gamut of Cayman corporate, financing and capital markets transactions. He regularly assists with matters on behalf of Latin American clients.

Finn O'Hegarty is market-oriented, commercial, responsive and reliable.

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James Reeve
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James Reeve
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Band 3
James Reeve acts on the full gamut of finance transactions, with an especially strong track record in structured finance. He represents numerous major clients, including investment managers.

James Reeve is very knowledgeable, quick and thorough - he can provide a lot of detail at short notice and flags regulatory updates very promptly.

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Michael Johns
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Michael Johns
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Band 3
Michael Johns has solid expertise advising on the Cayman aspects of high-value international mergers. He is also adept at handling capital markets matters, including IPOs.
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Ranked Lawyers at
Maples Group

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Cayman Islands

Corporate & Finance
Matthew Gardner
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Matthew Gardner
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Eminent Practitioners
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Scott Macdonald
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Scott Macdonald
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Eminent Practitioners
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Suzanne Correy
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Suzanne Correy
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Band 1
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Tina Meigh
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Tina Meigh
Head of Corporate & Finance
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Band 1
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Jonathon Meloy
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Jonathon Meloy
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Band 2
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3
Anthony Philp
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Band 3
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Daniel Lee
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Band 3
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Finn O'Hegarty
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Finn O'Hegarty
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Band 3
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James Reeve
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James Reeve
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Michael Johns
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Michael Johns
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Band 3
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Industries

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Acquisition & Leveraged Financing

Asset Finance

Banking

Capital Markets

Corporate Advisory

Debt Listing

Derivatives

Equity Capital Markets

Financial Services Regulation

Islamic Finance

Mergers and Acquisitions

Private Equity

Restructuring

Restructuring and Workouts

Structured Finance

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