Maples Group

Managing Partners: Nick Evans (Head of Office, Jersey), Heidi de Vries (Managing Partner, London), Jonathan Green (Global Managing Partner)

Number of partners: 141

Number of other fee-earners: 223

CONTACTS  

Corporate: Paul Burton (Jersey), Jack Marriott (London), David Allen (Corporate)

Finance: Mark Crichton (Jersey), Jonathan Caulton (London), Matthew Gilbert (London)

Funds & Investment Management: Simon Hopwood (Jersey), Tim Morgan (Jersey), Harjit Kaur (London), Joanna Russell (London)

Trusts: Alex Way (London)

THE FIRM 

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. Its global network of over 2,500 lawyers and industry professionals are strategically located in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East to ensure that clients gain immediate access to expert advice and bespoke support, within convenient time zones.

The Maples Group’s Jersey office provides full service Jersey legal advice in the corporate, finance and funds and investment management areas. Clients of the Jersey office include a wide range of international public and private companies, clearing and investment banks, global investment houses and institutional asset managers (hedge, private equity and venture capital).

The Maples Group’s London office provides legal advice on the laws of the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. In addition, through the Irish and Jersey desks, the London office offers clients in the region access to market leading Irish and Jersey legal advice from multiple locations.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK  

Corporate: 

The corporate teams are involved in a wide range of complex transactions relating to equity capital markets, listings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, restructuring and corporate advisory. Client-focused and partner-led teams provide an exceptionally proactive service that seeks to maximise the commercial advantage for clients while minimising legal risk.

Finance: 

There are finance teams based in each office, delivering time zone convenience and multi-jurisdictional capability. They handle a variety of cross-border and complex matters relating to acquisition and leveraged financing, asset finance, banking, debt capital markets, derivatives, fund finance, insurance linked products, Islamic finance, project and development finance, real estate finance, repackaging and structured finance. They also provide listing services for client listings of debt and equity on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (for which they are the number one listing agent) and The International Stock Exchange. Clients include the world’s leading banks and other financial institutions, private equity groups, hedge funds and corporates.

Funds & Investment Management: 

The teams, which includes the largest offshore funds team based in London, give expert advice on a wide range of fund related matters, including fund formation, fund maintenance and advice relating to issues arising from fund structuring, restructuring, dissolution and regulation. The teams act for an unparalleled cross section of participants in the global investment funds market, such as fund managers (including 11 of the top 15 European hedge fund managers by AUM) and their onshore law firms, depositaries, administrators, investment banks, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, prime brokers and audit firm structuring teams as well as other financial institutions..

Trusts: 

The team advises 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 trusts and estate planning structures, as well as trusts and fiduciary arrangements used in commercial transactions. The team advises on private wealth trusts, commercial trusts, structures to effect charitable and philanthropic giving and trust litigation as well as drafting wills and applying for grants of representation in relation to the estates of deceased persons.