Walkers’ promotions highlight growth of global firm
Grand Cayman, September 2018 Leading international law firm, Walkers, is pleased to announce that 8 attorneys across its global offices have been invited to join the partnership. In addition, 18 associates have been promoted to senior counsel, or local equivalent,…
Cayman Islands: Maples and Calder top ranked in Chambers High Net Worth
As a continued testament to the strength and market leading expertise of Maples and Calder in the international trusts and private client industry, the firm is pleased to announce that it has been recognised once again within the latest edition…
Cayman Islands-based Ogier Partner named in Global Private Client list
Cayman-based Ogier partner Rachael Reynolds has been named as one of the top international private client lawyers. She is among six of Ogier’s Trust Advisory Group experts named in the Private Client Global Elite 2018, an independent directory listing 250…
Maples and Calder Welcomes Newly Qualified Caymanian Lawyer to Finance Team
Maples and Calder is pleased to announce that Alicia Thompson has completed her articles of clerkship with the firm and was admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands by Hon. Justice Williams on 8 June 2018, before an audience…
Maples and Calder advises first aviation company to enter Cayman Islands’ Maritime & Aviation City
Maples and Calder’s Cayman Islands-based Asset Finance team recently advised CHC Helicopter with respect to its application to be licensed to operate in Cayman Enterprise City’s (“CEC”) Maritime & Aviation City. The team, led by Partner Wanda Ebanks and Associate…
OGIER: Funds specialist Justin Savage promoted to partner in Ogier’s Cayman team
Funds specialist Justin Savage has been promoted to partner in Ogier’s Cayman Investment Funds team. Justin, who joined Ogier in 2013, advises some of the firm’s largest investment fund clients on the full life-cycle of open-ended and closed-ended investment funds…
OGIER: Cayman-based finance lawyer Mark Santangeli promoted to partner
Ogier has announced the promotion of Cayman-based finance lawyer, Mark Santangeli, to partner. Named as a leading lawyer by IFLR for successive years, one of his clients describes him as “operating like a top-notch New York lawyer”. Ogier’s global head…
Cayman Islands: Maples and Calder wins two awards at the 10th Annual M&A Advisor Awards
1Maples and Calder has been recognised for their recent Cayman Islands and Irish legal advice to Ocean Rig UDW and three of its subsidiaries on the successful restructuring of US$3.7 billion of financial indebtedness. The complex and cutting edge restructuring,…
Channel Islands law firms putting Caribbean rivals in the shade
From Global Legal Post A survey by The Lawyer of top thirty offshore law firms shows Channel Island firms taking more of the top spots. For the first time since compiling data, The Lawyer’s Offshore Top 30 legal firms has…
The real beginning of the end for tax havens has begun
By Richard Murphy From iNews The Essential Daily Briefing As the government agrees to calls for new measures aimed at increasing transparency in tax havens, tax justice campaigner Richard Murphy hails a momentous victory. Fifteen years ago John Christensen and…