About
Managing Partner: Jonathan Green
Number of partners: 141
Number of lawyers: 361
Languages:Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Konkani, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Malayalam, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Sindhi, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tetun, Tulu, Urdu, Welsh
Firm Overview:
The Maples Group, through its leading international law firm, Maples and Calder, advises global financial, institutional, business and private clients on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg. With offices in key jurisdictions around the world, the Maples Group has specific strengths in areas of corporate commercial, finance, investment funds, litigation and trusts. Maintaining relationships with leading legal counsel, the Group leverages this local expertise to deliver an integrated service offering for global business initiatives. For more information, please visit: maples.com/services/legal-services.
Main Areas of Practice:
■ Corporate
■ Dispute Resolution & Insolvency
■ Employment
■ Finance
■ Funds & Investment Management
■ Insurance
■ Intellectual Property
■ Process Agency
■ Projects & Construction
■ Property
■ Regulatory & Financial Services Advisory
■ Sports, Media & Entertainment
■ Tax
■ Trusts & Private Client
Corporate
The firm’s global corporate team provides expert legal advice to corporate clients on all corporate commercial matters. The firm’s clients include major banks, multinationals and institutional investment firms, leading law and accountancy firms and a number of state / government entities across all industry sectors.
Dispute Resolution & Insolvency
The firm’s global dispute resolution & insolvency team provides expert legal advice on cross-border litigation and contentious and non-contentious restructuring. Maples offers a broad range of dispute resolution and insolvency services, bringing an unrivalled depth of experience to each dispute and ensuring that you receive fast, accurate and pragmatic advice.
Employment
The firm’s Irish legal employment team supports our clients and provides expert employment Irish law advice to businesses across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, investment management, technology and healthcare. Maples prides itself on always striving to add value by actively working with its clients to design practices, procedures and solutions that are tailored to their business, their strategy and their employees.
Finance
The firm’s global finance team provides expert legal advice on even the most complex financial transactions under intense time pressure. Clients repeatedly return to our qualified finance lawyers to handle a variety of complex matters relating to acquisition and leveraged financing, asset finance, banking, debt capital markets, derivatives, fund finance, insurance linked products, Islamic finance, repackaging and structured finance.
Funds & Investment Management
The firm’s global funds & investment management team provides expert legal advice on every aspect of the life cycle of an investment fund including set up, management and investment across a broad range of fund structures and management entities.
Insurance
The firm’s global Insurance team of lawyers help to shape the insurance sector by providing expert legal advice on insurance vehicles, establishing insurance companies, insurance management and broker operations, catastrophe bond vehicles and other insurance-linked products, captive insurance, reinsurance and sidecars, licensing of insurers, managers and brokers and corporate advisory.
Intellectual Property
The firm’s specialist intellectual property group provides expert legal advice on intellectual property matters including protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, licensing and royalties, technology transfer, copyright, trademarks, patents, design rights, domain names and structuring for intellectual property.
Process Agency
The firm offers process agency services through each of the global offices of Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, for clients who require a third party to accept legal proceedings on their behalf. The firm’s dedicated London-based team can guide you through the appointment procedure and customise documentation to suit the terms of a particular transaction.
Projects & Construction
The firm’s projects & construction team provides expert legal advice on all aspects of infrastructure and developments including tendering, finance and refinance, projects and construction contracts and regulation and disputes in both the public and private sectors. The firm’s lawyers also have particular expertise in public private partnerships both in Ireland and internationally across a wide range of sectors.
Property
The firm’s global property team provides expert specialist legal advice on all aspects of real estate law across all commercial property transactions with experience in real estate finance, commercial leases, landlord and tenant, real estate funds, investment acquisitions and disposals and property development.
Regulatory & Financial Services Advisory
The firm’s global team of regulatory lawyers provides expert legal advice regarding AML and CTF compliance including development and assessment of AML / CTF and risk management systems, KYC and customer due diligence best practices, conduct of money laundering and fraud proceedings and provision of expert evidence on AML / CTF and regulatory obligations.
Sports, Media & Entertainment
The firm’s global sports, media & entertainment specialist group provides expert legal advice on the commercial practicalities in the sports, media and entertainment sector. The firm’s comprehensive services include media right holding structures, broadcasting agreements, sports related financing for teams, clubs, leagues and associations, licensing of intellectual property for brands, naming rights and sports ventures.
Tax
The firm’s market leading tax team is at the forefront of innovation in developing new structures and strategies for international and Irish clients on cross-border tax matters.
Trusts & Private Client
The firm’s global team of trusts & private client lawyers advise some of the world’s largest private businesses, individual private clients, institutional trustees and other fiduciary service providers on matters concerning all types of private wealth trusts, commercial trusts, estate planning structures, trusts and fiduciary arrangements and trust litigation.
Ranked Offices
Provided by Maples Group
- George TownPO Box 309, Ugland House, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, KY1-1104
- Web: www.maples.com
- Tel: +1 345 949 8066
- Fax: +1 345 949 8080
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