Simon Raftopoulos

Practice Areas

Corporate, Insurance Disputes, Banking & Asset Finance, Corporate Finance, Fund Finance, Insurance & Reinsurance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Regulatory Advice

Career

Simon Raftopoulos is the Local Corporate Practice Group Head in the Cayman Islands and a member of the Corporate Finance and Private Equity teams.

He represents clients in a wide variety of corporate finance transactions, including private equity and fund finance, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, initial and secondary public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. Simon also represents clients on large private equity transactions and his team has a deep PE formation and transactional presence in Cayman.

For over a decade in the Cayman Islands, Simon has provided pro bono work to the community as a whole and is a recipient of the Lee Friedman Award for his unselfish dedication and time given to the Family Resource Centre, Legal Befrienders Service.

Professional Memberships

Holds the Securities Institute International Capital Markets Qualification.

Publications

Simon has been a contributing author to the Global Legal Insights Fund Finance publication since its inception.

Fund Finance Laws and Regulations 2023 – Cayman Islands

Regulatory Round-Up: Cayman Islands Q3 2021

Cayman Regulatory Newsletter Q4 2020

The role of Private Equity in economic recovery from Covid-19

Investment Funds and ESG Investing – the Appleby perspective

Getting the Deal Through – Market Intelligence: Private Equity

Offshore deal value through June 2018 nearly matches 2017 total

Cayman Islands’ Limited Liability Partnership Law, 2017 comes into force

Cayman Islands’ Limited Liability Companies Law, 2016, comes into force

Cayman Court makes first fair value determination in merger dispute