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Gwyneth Rees

Gwyneth Rees

Global 2026

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About

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Gwyneth is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. She works extensively with hedge fund managers and private equity sponsors and their onshore counsel on all aspects of the establishment, maintenance and restructuring of offshore investment funds. She represents large global financial institutions and asset managers, as well as boutique and emerging managers. Gwyneth has over 30 years' experience advising on the formation and structuring of hedge, hybrid, credit and activist funds, private equity funds and investment fund platforms.

Gwyneth began her legal career at Herbert Smith Freehills, London, where she worked in the corporate group before moving to the investment funds group of King & Wood Mallesons, Sydney, Australia. She then moved in-house to AMP Financial Services as head of the retail investment funds legal team.

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Chambers Global Guide

Investment Funds - Cayman Islands

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial
Gwyneth Rees has considerable experience concerning the formation of high-value venture capital and hedge funds and is a frequent counsel to many of the world's leading asset managers.

Strengths

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  • She has a level of client service that really stands out.

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  • The way Gwyneth Rees takes a complex fact pattern and distils it straight away is unbelievable. She is a lawyer of the highest order, and one whose responsiveness stands out.

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  • Gwyneth is a partner in every sense of the word. There is simply no one better.

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  • Gwyneth Rees is the best funds lawyer on the island.

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  • Gwyneth Rees is one of the most talented lawyers I have ever worked with.

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    Derrick Kan

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    Sharon Yap

    Offshore: Corporate & Finance including Investment Funds

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British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

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