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Maples Group

Corporate & Finance

Global Guide 2026 : Cayman Islands

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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.

Industries (16)

  • Equity Capital Markets
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Restructuring
  • Corporate Advisory
  • Acquisition & Leveraged Financing
  • Asset Finance
  • Banking
  • Capital Markets
  • Debt Listing
  • Derivatives
  • Financial Services Regulation
  • insurance Linked Products
  • Islamic Finance
  • Restructuring and Workouts
  • Structured Finance

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Corporate & Finance - Cayman Islands

Band 1

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.
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Work Highlights

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  • 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 respondentGlobal

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

    Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

  • 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 respondentGlobal

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

    Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

Notable Practitioners

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  • Suzanne Correy
    Suzanne Correy

    Suzanne Correy

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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  • Tina Meigh
    Tina Meigh

    Tina Meigh

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

    • 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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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  • Anthony Philp
    Anthony Philp

    Anthony Philp

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

    • Anthony is always a pleasure to work with.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

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

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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  • Finn O'Hegarty
    Finn O'Hegarty

    Finn O'Hegarty

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

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

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

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

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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  • Jonathon Meloy
    Jonathon Meloy

    Jonathon Meloy

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal

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

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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  • Daniel Lee
    Daniel Lee

    Daniel Lee

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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  • James Reeve
    James Reeve

    James Reeve

    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
    Michael Johns

    Michael Johns

    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.

      Corporate & Finance respondentGlobal
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