Walkers

Global Managing Partner: Ingrid Pierce

Office Managing Partner: Rob Jackson

Number of Cayman Islands partners: 37

Number of partners worldwide: 144

Number of Cayman Islands lawyers: 117

Number of lawyers worldwide: 414

Languages: 20+ languages including Cantonese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish

Firm Overview

We are an international financial services firm with offices across geographies and expertise in multiple jurisdictions. We provide legal, corporate, regulatory filing, compliance and fiduciary services to the world’s leading financial institutions and companies. You'll find us in the time zone you need us to be, combining deep expertise with a determination to give our clients the best. In a volatile world we are a safe pair of hands in important financial jurisdictions. Our people and our approach to solving our clients' challenges are tried and tested, but that doesn’t mean we ever stand still. Markets change, regulation evolves, businesses adapt, and we keep on reinventing our service for the times we find ourselves in.

We practice six laws with teams working from a network of 10 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Our clients receive the responsive service, clear commercial advice and jurisdiction relevant solutions that make deals happen, markets move and businesses thrive.

Main Areas of Practice

Asset Finance:

The asset finance team advises on all aspects of the financing, leasing and trading of aircraft, aircraft engines, helicopters and other heavy transportation assets such as rolling stock and vessels. It has extensive experience in complex asset finance transactions and act for lending lessors, lessees and financiers.

Contact: Sarah Humpleby

Banking:

The banking team advises agents, arrangers, banks, international financial institutions and corporations on an extensive range of domestic and international cross-border banking and finance transactions. It advises on all aspects of loan and credit facilities ranging from short-term unsecured loans to multi-currency syndicated loans and revolving facilities, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, asset finance, debt restructuring, structured finance and capital markets.

Contact: Rob Jackson, Adeola Adeyemi, Hugh Anderson, Justin Hart

Corporate:

Walkers’ corporate group advises global corporations on a wide variety of company, commercial and corporate law matters. It has extensive experience advising on all corporate matters including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, corporate re-structuring, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements and commercial contracts and agreements of every nature.

Contact: Jason Allison, Hugh Anderson, Andrew Barker

Fintech:

Walkers' fintech group advises businesses specialising in digital assets, blockchain, alternative model finance and a wide range of related activities and services including funds, issuers, custodians and broker dealers. The team has specialist knowledge of licensing, marketing, data protection, tax transparency, outsourcing, international anti-money laundering regulation and other aspects relevant to FinTech businesses.

Contacts: Lucy Frew, Melissa Lim, Natalie Neto

Insolvency & Dispute Resolution:

Walkers advises companies, directors, general partners and insolvency practitioners on corporate recovery, restructuring and insolvency issues. It provides advice on all forms of formal appointments of insolvency and advise creditors, debtors, private equity and hedge funds and other stakeholders. The team has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of cross-border and international insolvency matters.

Contact: Neil Lupton, Matthew Goucke

Insurance:

Walkers’ insurance team provides clients with market leading legal, regulatory and licensing advice for the establishment, structuring and on-going operation of all forms of insurance vehicles. The team provides services to the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers, capital markets and fund specialists.

Contact: Philip Paschalides, Sarah Demerling

Investment Funds:

Walkers’ investment funds group advises many of the world’s most prominent asset managers, fund promoters and institutional banks and investors. It advises on all aspects of offshore investment funds including fund formation, structuring, regulation, fund restructuring, fund re-domiciliation, termination and on-going general advice to investment funds and managers.

Contact: Ingrid Pierce, James Melen, Tim Ludford-Thomas, Prasana

Private Capital & Trusts:

Walkers’ private capital and trusts group is a multijurisdictional team of specialist lawyers which focusses on serving the needs of wealthy families, entrepreneurs, family offices, professional trustees and onshore advisers. The firm deliver highly commercial legal solutions across practice areas and sectors, providing a fully integrated service to clients.

Contact: Philip Paschalides, Monique Bhullar

Private Equity:

Walkers’ private equity group acts for most of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms. It advises on all aspects of fund formation and capitalisation of investment vehicles, public and private mergers and acquisitions and down-stream transactions, capital call and subscription line financing, leveraged buy out, group restructuring, secured lending, take-private and IPO formation and due diligence.

Contacts: Caroline Williams, Melissa Lim

Regulatory & Risk Advisory:

Walkers’ regulatory and risk advisory team offers advice on compliance and regulatory matters on a global basis. The leading team of dedicated specialists regulated and non-regulated clients on the interpretation, application and implementation of regulatory requirements and provides policies and procedures, training, audits and assistance with inspections, investigations, enforcement cases, and other contentious matters.

Contact: Lucy Frew, Andrew Howarth, Ian Mason, Colm Dawson

Structured Products & Capital Markets (SPCM):

Walkers’ SPCM team advises on the full range of debt, equity, equity-linked, credit-linked and asset-backed securities, derivatives and other structured products. Its expertise includes securitisations, repackagings, collateralised bond and loan offerings, note programmes, commercial paper and depository receipt programmes and convertible debt and warrants issues.

Contact: James Burch, Joanne Ziegler, Olga Sologub

Walkers Professional Services:

Walkers Professional Services (WPS) is a leading provider of corporate, corporate governance, regulatory compliance and fiduciary services to corporate and institutional clients across global financial centres. WPS delivers market leading expertise and value for spend through its unique integrated legal and professional services team and state of the art technology. WPS is recognised as best in class across fiduciary services, as voted by clients in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (Source: Creditflux).

Contacts: Steven Manning, Nicholas Quin, Dorothy Scott