INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Jonathan McLean

Jonathan McLean

FinTech 2026

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Practice Areas

Jon is a Partner and Head of the Banking and Regulatory Practice Groups at Stuarts Humphries. He is also a member of the specialist Investment Funds and Fintech Practice groups and has an extensive practice; advising clients on banking, finance, licensing, regulatory, funds, Fintech, digital assets, corporate and commercial matters, across a broad range of sectors.

Career

Jon regularly represents clients on finance and corporate transactions including joint ventures, restructurings, public listings, secured lending, debt finance, securitisations and capital markets. Jon’s extensive regulatory practice includes advising on licencing and registration, economic substance, data protection, anti-money laundering, beneficial ownership and, FATCA and CRS requirements.

He also advises fund sponsors, fintech and digital assets start-ups and other stakeholders on the structuring and formation of hedge and private equity funds, security token offerings and initial coin offerings; and the day-to-day administration of funds from a Cayman Islands law perspective.

Professional Memberships

The Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association

Notary Public

Publications

Chambers Practice Guide: Doing Business in the Cayman Islands - Trends & Developments in the Digital Assets Space

Structures for Web3 Entities in the Cayman Islands

Lexology Getting the Deal Through Private Equity 2023: Transactions

Lexology Getting The Deal Through Private Equity 2023: Fund Formation

Chambers Review

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Professional Advisers: FinTech

FinTech Legal - Cayman Islands

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Jonathan McLean is a partner at Stuarts Humphries and the firm's head of banking and regulatory. He provides FinTech clients with advice on tokenised assets, CIMA regulations and VASP licence applications.

Ranked Individuals at Stuarts Humphries (2)

Cayman Islands

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