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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

  • Maples Group advised the Republic of El Salvador on its landmark restructuring of USD1 billion of its sovereign debt. Described as a debt-for-nature transaction, this involved the allocation of savings into ecological conservation and water security programmes.

Strengths

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The Maples team has the ability to act quickly and commercially.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

Maples is the best law firm in the Cayman Islands. Its team is available, responsive to requests and commercially aware.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

Maples has a long-term track record and an excellent team that provides superb customer service. It is proactive, keeping us abreast of pertinent trends.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

Maples is commercial and easy to work with; the team gets fantastic results for its clients.

Corporate & Finance respondent
Global

Notable Practitioners

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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.

Suzanne Correy is great; I highly recommend her.

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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.

Tina is market-leading in funds finance and a stateswoman of the industry who is completely across all of its products.

Tina has gotten me out of more urgent scrapes than I can even count. She's always extremely prompt, unruffled and an excellent partner to her clients.

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Anthony Philp
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Anthony Philp
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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 Philp is friendly, solution-oriented, proactive and incredibly resourceful. He knows the CLO market like the back of his hand.

Anthony is always a pleasure to work with.

Anthony Philp is a great legal counsel. He listens, is efficient, thorough and always respects the timeline.

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Finn O'Hegarty
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Finn O'Hegarty
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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 always get the deal done and never lets us down.

Finn is a pleasure to work with. He always delivers first-class, sophisticated legal advice.

In my opinion, Finn O'Hegarty is the best corporate and securities lawyer in the Cayman Islands. He is always available and super-responsive.

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Jonathon Meloy
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Jonathon Meloy
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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.

Our entire legal team is extremely satisfied with Jonathon Meloy's level of work and assistance to our company.

Jonathon Meloy is an excellent partner. He is very bright, quick, diligent, responsive and will direct you where to go.

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

Daniel Lee is accessible and keeps his client informed.

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James Reeve
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James Reeve
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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.
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Michael Johns
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Michael Johns
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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.

I highly rate Michael Johns.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Maples Group

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Cayman Islands

Corporate & Finance
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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Anthony Philp
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Anthony Philp
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Band 2
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Finn O'Hegarty
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Finn O'Hegarty
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Band 2
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Jonathon Meloy
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Jonathon Meloy
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Band 2
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Daniel Lee
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Daniel Lee
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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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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

insurance Linked Products