Maples Group

Aaron Mulcahy

Aaron is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He advises on a wide variety of legal and regulatory issues facing Irish domiciled collective investment schemes (CIS) and has particular expertise in the establishment, operation and regulation of all types of Irish CIS, including UCITS and AIFs. Aaron's expertise also extends to the establishment and operation of Irish regulated AIFMs, UCITS management companies, "mega-ManCos", MiFID investment firms and unregulated 1907 Act limited partnership and SPV structures. His practice also covers the governance, cross-border distribution and management of such entities into and out of Ireland, as well as the impact of wider regulatory initiatives such as compliance with the SFDR and the Taxonomy Regulation. · Funds and Investment Management

Adam Donoghue

Adam is Partner and co-head of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He primarily advises UK and European asset managers on the structuring, establishment and operation of Irish fund products. Adam has broad experience advising on a wide spectrum of Irish regulated UCITS and AIFs with a particular focus on the alternatives space, including hedge funds, liquid and private credit funds, private equity funds, managed account platforms, direct lending/ loan origination funds, real asset/ infrastructure funds and master-feeder structures. He has advised on all types of Irish fund vehicles including ICAVs, unit trusts, CCFs, investment companies, and most recently he advised on the very first investment limited partnership (ILP) to be authorised by the Central Bank under the revised legislative framework. Aside from fund vehicles, Adam's expertise extends to the establishment and operation of Irish regulated AIFMs, UCITS management companies, "super-mancos", MiFID investment firms and unregulated 1907 Act limited partnership and SPV structures. His practice also covers the governance, financing, cross-border distribution, management and relocation/ redomiciliation of such entities into and out of Ireland, as well as the impact of wider regulatory initiatives such as compliance with the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations ("SFDR") and Taxonomy Regulations. · Investment Funds

Adam Huckle

Adam is a partner of Maples and Calder's Financial Services Regulation and Dispute Resolution & Insolvency teams in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. Adam regularly represents retail and investment banks, trustees, investment funds and other financial institutions. He has a broad range of litigation experience, with an emphasis on complex, multi-jurisdictional matters involving banking, finance, investment funds, company law and trusts disputes. Adam's regulatory practice has a particular focus on economic sanctions, but also includes advising on cross border conduct of business, duties of confidentiality, anti-corruption and bribery, licensing, record retention and mandatory reporting and information exchange. He regularly appears in the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands. · Financial Services Regulation

Alan O’Sullivan

Alan is a partner in the firm's Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. Alan specialises in banking litigation, lender enforcement (particularly receivership), insolvency and restructuring, shareholder disputes and commercial property matters. Alan acts for financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, private equity funds, bondholders, wealth management firms and property holding companies. Alan has extensive experience in litigating matters in the Irish Superior Courts particularly the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal. Alan also specialises in alternative dispute resolution including in particular mediation and arbitration. · Banking Litigation

Alma O’Sullivan

Alma is a partner of Maples and Calder's Banking team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Alma has experience in advising on a range of domestic and cross-border banking and finance transactions. Alma’s expertise includes advising banks and borrowers in connection with corporate debt facilities, acquisition financing, fund finance, real estate financing (investment and development) and restructurings. She also has particular expertise in real estate financing involving QIAIF structures and portfolio loan sales. · Banking and Finance

Amanda Lazier

Amanda is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. Amanda has significant experience advising clients on structured finance transactions, particularly CLOs, securitizations, repackagings, credit funds and other CLO investment structures; as well as on fund finance and banking transactions, in which she represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. Amanda also has extensive experience in obtaining listings for clients on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. · Structured Finance

Amel Wehden

Amel is an Of Counsel in Maples and Calder’s Corporate team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office. She specialises in the areas of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, initial public offerings, corporate reorganisations and general corporate governance. She also advises investment funds, in particular the establishment and maintenance of hedge funds and private equity funds. · Corporate Law

Amy Black

Amy is of counsel of Maples and Calder's Finance and Corporate teams in the Maples Group's Jersey office. Amy has knowledge and experience of a wide range of corporate and finance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, structuring/establishment/operation of acquisition and holding structures, corporate and financing downstream private equity transactions, lender and borrower side financings and leveraged/structured financings. She also advises on listing services on The International Stock Exchange (TISE). · Mergers and Acquisitions

Andrew Keast

Andrew is a partner of Maples and Calder's Fund & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He works with a broad range of prominent institutional and start-up private equity, venture capital and hedge fund clients. He advises on all aspects of investment fund work, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. Andrew also advises a number of the leading sponsors and onshore counsel in the Israeli venture capital space. · Investment Funds

Andrew Quinn

Andrew is global head of Maples and Calder's Tax team and is based in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He is an acknowledged leader in Irish and international tax and advises companies, investment funds, banks and family offices on Ireland's international tax offerings. Andrew is a member of the Dublin office Management Committee. · Tax

Anthony Philip

Anthony is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples and Calder's Cayman Islands office. Anthony has an extensive and broad range of experience in debt capital markets, corporate financing and asset financing. He regularly advises hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on capital commitment fund financing as well as borrowers and lenders on aircraft financing. He also advises on CLO and structured product transactions and secured and unsecured banking transactions, in addition to regulatory, general corporate and commercial matters and all types of listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. · Debt Capital Markets

Aoife McDonagh

Aoife is a Partner in Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She acts for a wide range of funds and service providers and has extensive experience in advising on the establishment, authorisation and operation of all types of Irish investment funds, in particular, UCITS and QIAIFs. Aoife also works with fund service providers in connection with depositary, administration and other service agreements. In addition, Aoife has experience in advising both lenders and borrowers on fund financing transactions. · Investment Funds

Arnaud Arrecgros

Arnaud is a partner in Maples and Calder (Luxembourg)'s Finance team at the Maples Group. He has extensive experience in cross border financing and banking transactions, including corporate debt facilities, acquisition, asset and real estate financing and restructurings, funds financing in connection with the setting up of bridge and capital commitment facilities, securitizations, as well as capital markets matters. He represents both borrowers (including private equity and hedge funds) and lenders on lending transactions and all types of secured transactions, advising in particular on the setting up of security packages and issues surrounding collateral in the context of debt restructuring transactions. · Banking

Baptiste Aubry

Baptiste is a partner in Maples and Calder (Luxembourg)'s Corporate team at the Maples Group, where he specialises in corporate restructurings and cross border mergers and acquisitions. · Corporate Restructuring

Caitriona Carty

Caitriona is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She advises on the establishment, operation and regulation of a wide spectrum of UCITS and AIFMD funds, with extensive experience in managed account platforms, closed-ended structures, alternative UCITS, LQIAIFs and other specialised fund products. Caitriona also advises asset managers establishing Irish authorised AIFMs, UCITS and MiFID management companies. Caitriona spent a number of years with the Group's law firm in Hong Kong providing Irish funds solutions to the Asian client base of investment managers seeking to raise capital from European investors and speaking regularly at industry events regarding European fund products. · Funds & Investment Management

Callaghan Kennedy

Callaghan is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Callaghan advises arrangers, managers, investors and issuers on a wide range of finance, debt capital markets and structured finance transactions. He focuses particularly on structured products, such as CLOs and other asset backed securitisations, commodities, utilities, marketplace lending and other alternative asset class financings, as well as on repackagings and other programme issuers. Callaghan also advises on fund-linked structures, such as managed account platforms, loan funds and debt funds. He regularly advises on wider financial services and regulatory law, both in relation to regimes that impact structured finance transactions‒such as STS, securities offerings, market abuse, EMIR and risk retention‒ and on issues generally affecting financial services firms, such as like licensing and establishment, change of control and ongoing regulatory compliance. · Finance

Caroline Moran

Caroline is Global Co-Head of Maples and Calder’s global Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Caroline advises on all aspects of cross border and domestic insolvency and restructuring issues, in particular contentious and non-contentious restructurings, liquidations, schemes of arrangement and fund wind downs. She advises debtors and key stakeholders in financially distressed circumstances, including banks, funds, bondholders, directors, investors and insolvency practitioners. Caroline also has extensive commercial litigation experience in financial services disputes including appraisal rights/fair value cases and shareholder, board and investment funds disputes. She is an experienced advocate, who regularly appears in the Cayman Islands courts. · Dispute Resolution

Chloe Harris

Chloe is an associate in Maples and Calder’s Corporate team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office. Chloe advises on a broad range of corporate and banking and finance transactions, including acquisition finance, investments, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, initial public offerings, corporate reorganisations and general corporate governance. Chloe also has experience in fund formation within the British Virgin Islands.

Chris Newton

Chris Managing Partner of Maples and Calder’s British Virgin Islands office and head of the global BVI practice. He has a broad corporate and finance practice with particular expertise in restructuring as well as acquisition, asset, project and real estate finance, advising financial institutions, sponsors, investors and borrowers. Chris has substantial experience advising in distressed credit situations including both consensual work outs and contentious enforcements. In addition to his finance practice, Chris advises on debt capital markets transactions and plays an active role in the public equity group, advising companies listing on the North American exchanges as well as bidders and targets in acquisitions. Chris regularly advises a number of key clients around the ongoing requirements of public companies. Chris' clients include high profile Canadian, Chinese, UK and US financial institutions, investment funds and corporates. · Corporate

Christopher Capewell

Christopher is global head of Maples and Calder’s Regulatory & Financial Services practice and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He advises on all aspects of Cayman Islands investment funds with his practice focusing on regulatory matters impacting family offices and a wide variety of open and closed-ended investment vehicles including partnerships, unit trusts, LLCs and companies. Christopher has extensive knowledge of FATCA, the OECD Common Reporting Standard, the Securities Investment Business Law, DAC6/MDR, Economic Substance and the OECD Country-by-Country Reporting regime.

Ciara Ní Longaigh

Ciara is an associate in Maples and Calder's Employment team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She advises on a broad range of employment related matters including unfair dismissal, disciplinary and grievance procedures, bullying, harassment and work-related stress processes, working time and equality issues. Ciara also has experience in advising in relation to contract reviews and the drafting of company policies and procedures. · Employment

Claire Morrissey

Claire is head of Maples and Calder's Data, Commercial & Technology team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Claire is a leading adviser on data, technology and commercial contracts. She has a particular focus on GDPR compliance and investigations, emerging technologies and complex sourcing projects. Claire also regularly advises on the technology, IP and data aspects of joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions. Claire’s recent data experience includes advising on GDPR compliance, data transfers, data protection complaints and investigations and data breach management across all sectors including, in particular, financial services and technology. She has advised on a wide range of commercial contracts including IT contracts and major outsourcings in the financial services sector, intellectual property transfers and licensing, software development, distribution and R&D agreements. · Data Privacy and Data Protection

Colm Rafferty

Colm is co-head of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Colm has extensive experience in company law and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, venture capital, cross-border mergers and private equity investments. He has been involved in many of Ireland's most significant equity financings and transactions involving Irish private technology companies. Colm also has extensive experience advising institutional financial investors and private equity investors investing in and acquiring Irish assets. His practice includes Irish inward investment projects and other cross border transactions. Colm is a sought after advisor to many of Ireland's most successful venture-backed technology companies, having represented such companies as AMCS, Movidius and Web Reservations. · Corporate Finance

Dan Perkins

Dan is of counsel in Maples and Calder's Finance and Corporate teams in the Maples Group's Jersey office. He has experience advising on a wide range of Jersey Corporate and Finance transactions for institutional, corporate and family office clients.

Daniel Lee

Dan is global head of Maples and Calder’s Corporate team and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. His experience includes advising on a broad range of corporate and commercial work, including private equity, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and SPACs. He also advises on all types of investment funds and has extensive experience in finance and capital markets. · Private Equity

David Allen

David is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group’s Jersey office. He advises on cross-border M&A, IPOs and private equity transactions. David has acted on a wide range of Jersey corporate finance (particularly AIM, main market and US listings of Jersey companies) and mergers and acquisitions transactions, and provides general corporate advice. David also has particular expertise in relation to large M&A transactions conducted via Jersey schemes of arrangement. · Cross-Border M&A

Deirdre McIlvenna

Deirdre is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She has extensive experience advising global and domestic clients on the establishment and on-going regulatory, compliance and corporate governance requirements relating to their Irish regulated investment funds, management companies, servicing operations and directors. She has a particular expertise in UCITS and ETFs with strong industry involvement across different ETF committees and working groups. In addition, Deirdre has significant experience in AIFs authorised under the Irish AIFMD regime. · Investment Funds

Diarmuid Mawe

Diarmuid is head of the Dublin Commercial Property team at Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm. Diarmuid advises on all types of commercial property transactions. He has extensive experience counselling private equity and institutional investors on all property law aspects involved in the acquisition, management and disposal of real estate assets and loan portfolios. Diarmuid also specialises in commercial landlord and tenant law, advising some of the country’s largest landlords and tenants on their commercial property portfolios. He has many years of experience advising leading private equity and institutional clients on their respective property portfolios across all industry sectors including office, retail, logistics and PRS. · Commercial Property

Eimear O\'Dwyer

Eimear is co-head of Maples and Calder’s Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group’s Dublin office. She is our lead across public markets; UCITS and ETFs. She specialises in the structuring of regulated funds, advising a wide variety of asset managers, issuers and investment banks across a broad range of asset classes including highly liquid, distressed situations, private debt and credit, loan origination, hedge, fund of funds, master feeders, managed account platforms and bespoke structures. Eimear also advises on the establishment, ongoing operation and regulation of Irish MiFID firms, UCITS management companies, AIFMs and Super ManCos. · Investment Funds

Emma Conaty

Emma heads the Global Registration Services team within the Funds & Investment Management Group in the Dublin office. She has particular expertise in the cross-border distribution of UCITS and (onshore and offshore) AIFs globally including Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas, the Far and Middle East (whether by way of private placement or publicly through the European Passport or local registration). Emma regularly advises promoters, fund managers and investment banks which operate UCITS, ETFs and AIFs on the initial market entry process (including any permitted pre-marketing activities) as well as ongoing maintenance filing requirements to ensure continued compliance and market access. · Cross-Border Distribution

Eoin O’Leary

Eoin is an Of Counsel of Maples and Calder's Asset Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He advises on all aspects of aircraft finance and leasing and has particular experience advising operating lessors and financial institutions on aircraft acquisitions and sales, debt financing aircraft, ECA financing, the establishment of aircraft funding platforms and ABS structures. · Asset Finance

Eugene McCormick

Eugene is a partner of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He has extensive experience in a variety of areas, including financial services, landlord and tenant, and professional negligence claims. He has regularly advised on, and acted in, debt recovery, security enforcement and general chancery matters. · Financial Services

Fearghal De Feu

Fearghal is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's London office. He advises many of the world's leading financial institutions, asset management corporations, UCITS management companies, AIF managers, fund administrators and depositaries. He has extensive experience in the structuring, establishment, regulation and marketing of UCITS and AIFs, with particular expertise in private equity, hedge funds, fund of funds, alternative UCITS, master-feeders, LQIAIFs, managed account platforms and real asset structures. Fearghal also advises asset managers looking to establish Irish authorised AIFMs and UCITS management companies. · Funds & Investment Management

Finn O\'Hegarty

Finn is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Corporate team and co-head of the Latin American practice group and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Finn has extensive experience in all aspects of corporate work, including joint ventures, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and also advises on a wide variety of structured finance, capital markets and investment fund transactions. · Corporate

Frances Hamilton

Frances is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She has extensive experience advising on the establishment, authorisation, operation and maintenance of a wide spectrum of Irish regulated funds (including UCITS and AIFs) across the full range of investment strategies and asset classes. Frances has particular technical expertise and interest in Sustainable Finance and ESG. She regularly advises asset managers on the implementation and compliance with the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations and the Taxonomy Regulation. She also has experience in advising on the establishment of Irish limited partnerships and carrying out reviews for institutional investors of their proposed investments in unregulated private equity funds. In addition, she works closely with institutional clients on their money market fund ranges.

Grant Dixon

Grant is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He advises a global client base and specialises in a broad range of fund products, focusing primarily on venture capital, private equity and hedge funds. He also has extensive experience in general corporate, financing and commercial matters. · Venture Capital

Gwyneth Rees

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 25 years' experience advising on the formation and structuring of hedge, hybrid, credit and activist funds, private equity funds and investment fund platforms. · Funds and Investment Management

Ian Conlon

Ian is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group’s Dublin office. He has extensive experience in the establishment, operation and regulation of both UCITS and AIFMD funds, with particular focus on alternatives, including hedge funds, investment limited partnership vehicles (ILPs), private equity and private debt, credit funds, loan origination and real asset structures. Ian has significant expertise in the ICAV space, having advised on the first ICAV authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and numerous innovative ICAV structures, redomiciliations and conversions to date. Ian is the Head of the Maples Group Irish Sustainable Investing Group and is recognised as a leading lawyer in the ESG and sustainable finance space. He regularly advises global asset managers looking to establish sustainability focused investment funds in compliance with the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) and the Taxonomy Regulation. Ian also advises asset managers looking to establish Irish authorised AIFMs, UCITS and MiFID management companies. · Funds & Investment Management

James O’Neal

James is a principal in Maples and Calder (Luxembourg) at the Maples Group, where he is head of the Luxembourg Tax group. He advises Fortune 500 companies, private equity, real estate funds and start-ups on many aspects of Luxembourg taxation, including holding activities, cross border financing, IP planning, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring. James also focuses on updating tax structures to robustly comply with BEPS, economic substance and transfer pricing. · Cross-Border Financing

James Reeve

James is head of the Cayman Islands’ Structured Finance practice. He advises on structured finance transactions (in particular CLO transactions, related risk retention structures and catastrophe bonds), fund financing matters (acting for both lenders and borrowers) and general banking and financing work. James also has experience advising on asset finance transactions (particularly off-balance sheet commercial aircraft financing and leasing) and general corporate and commercial transactions, along with restructurings and securities listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. · Structured Finance

Jeremy Bomford

Jeremy is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He specialises in the establishment, launch, ongoing maintenance and restructuring of all types of investment funds, particularly hedge funds and private equity funds, and acts for a diverse portfolio of clients in the asset management industry, ranging from start-ups to major financial institutions. He also regularly advises clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions. · Investment Funds

Jo Cunningham

Jo is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. She specialises in the establishment and operation of Cayman Islands investment funds, and has a broad range of hedge fund, private equity fund and investment platform clients. Her litigation background combined with her investment fund experience gives her a unique perspective on issues associated with distressed investment funds and she has advised extensively on the reorganisation of such funds. · Funds & Investment Management

Joe O’Neill

Joe is a Finance Partner and has experience covering a broad range of leveraged debt capital markets, structured products and general financing transactions. He advises Irish and international banks, private investors, sponsors and corporate entities across a wide range of securitisation and financial market deals. · Finance

Johan Terblanche

Johan is Managing Partner of Maples and Calder (Luxembourg) at the Maples Group, where he is head of the Luxembourg Funds & Investment Management team. Johan has been focusing on fund structuring / formation and regulated financial business for the majority of his career. He advises managers and investors of collective investment funds, with a particular focus on alternative funds (including private equity, debt, infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds) and their management entities · Alternative Funds

John Dykstra

John is a partner in the Finance practice and head of the Insurance practice in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He specialises in structured finance, investment funds and corporate and commercial transactions, with an emphasis on catastrophe bond transactions and other insurance-linked securities, CLO transactions, fund financings, structured debt and repackagings. · Structured Finance

John Gallagher

John is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He has extensive experience in financial services and regulatory law, with a particular focus on the establishment, operation and ongoing maintenance of all types of investment funds, including UCITS funds and AIFMD-compliant funds, across a broad range of strategies (including private equity style closed funds and liquid alternatives). He has worked on large master-feeder and managed account platforms and launched flagship ICAV platforms for large institutional asset managers and investment banks. John also advises service providers to funds, including AIFMs, fund management companies, investment managers and administrators and custodians on Irish legal, regulatory and compliance matters. He has particular experience in alternative and hedge fund structures authorised in accordance with AIFMD. · Funds and Investment Management

Jonathan Green

Jonathan is the Global Managing Partner of Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm. He advises on all aspects of investment funds, specialising in private equity and hedge fund formation. Jonathan has extensive experience in corporate, partnership and trust structures, establishing and operating fund platforms, advising on fund regulatory matters, structuring downstream transactions and advising funds on matters arising throughout their life cycle. · Investment Funds

Jonathon Meloy

Jonathon is head of Maples and Calder’s Finance practice in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He is also co-head of the firm’s Asset Finance practice and has extensive experience of international capital markets and corporate finance transactions. He advises on all types of aircraft finance structures, with a particular focus on aircraft portfolio securitisations, large leasing platform establishments (including partnerships with fund sponsor investors), and on- and off-balance sheet commercial aircraft finance and leasing. In addition, Jonathon regularly acts on fund finance transactions (for both lenders and borrowers, including capital commitment subscription financing), as well as structured finance matters including CLOs and debt funds. Jonathon also advises on a wide range of general corporate and commercial deals, including restructurings, joint ventures and M&A transactions, and debt and equity listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. · Finance

Jordan O\'Brien

Jordan is a partner in Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He specialises in corporate law, advising on a variety of transactions, in particular mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and venture capital, corporate restructurings, equity incentives and shareholder arrangements. Jordan also advises in respect of day-to-day corporate and commercial matters. · Corporate Law

Julian Ashworth

Julian is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. His practice focuses on private equity, hybrid and hedge fund structures and downstream transactions, including financing and security agreements, secondary transactions and fund restructurings. He advises sponsors and management companies on profit sharing and funding arrangements and Cayman Islands regulatory matters. Julian is also involved in corporate finance matters, including M&A transactions, joint ventures, co-investments and restructuring matters. · Funds & Investment Management

Karen Killalea

Karen is head of Maples and Calder's Employment team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. She has over 18 years’ experience advising clients on all aspects of employment law including contractual matters, sensitive investigations, employee privacy issues, GDPR, gender pay gap preparation, TUPE, HR aspects of corporate re-structuring and asset disposals, industrial relations, working time, equality issues, executive compensation, removal of directors and senior executives and the protection of confidential information. Karen’s recent cases include securing court orders to prevent the theft of confidential information, restraining a team move and defending a High Court challenge to the suspension and investigation of a senior employee. She regularly represents clients before the WRC and the courts and has extensive experience of successful mediation and dispute resolution. · Employment Law

Karole Cuddihy

Karole is a partner of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. He specialises in corporate insolvency and restructuring. His work includes advising on liquidations, receiverships, examinerships and schemes of arrangement. Karole regularly acts for insolvency professionals, creditors, directors, shareholders and potential investors. He also has significant experience in advocacy before the Irish courts. · Corporate Insolvency

Lee Davis

Lee is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He advises hedge and private equity funds on their establishment and ongoing legal and regulatory compliance in the Cayman Islands. He also advises on general corporate and commercial matters. · Investment Funds

Lorna Smith

Lorna Smith is a Partner in the Irish Financial Services Regulatory team at Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm. Lorna has over 10 years' experience in financial services regulation, and in addition to more traditional industries like banking, insurance and investment services, Lorna’s practice also focuses on growth sectors such as fintech, alternative lending and sustainable finance. Lorna guides new financial institutions establishing in Ireland, across all industry sectors including MiFID investment firms and fund service providers, banks, insurers, e-money and payment firms, and credit servicing and retail credit firms. She also regularly advises on the transfer of regulated businesses, including regulatory due diligence. She advises firms on their ongoing regulatory obligations, including remuneration and corporate governance, outsourcing, fitness and probity, anti-money laundering, capital management, and industry-specific conduct of business and investor protection requirements. Lorna helps clients manage regulatory engagement, both in a supervisory and enforcement context, and implement new requirements and robust compliance frameworks. She has conducted comprehensive gap analyses and assurance reviews to manage regulatory risk, including working on Risk Mitigation Programmes, inspection remediation and industry-wide reviews such as the Tracker Mortgage Examination. · Financial Services Regulation

Lynn Cramer

Lynn is a partner of Maples and Calder's Tax team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Lynn is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and an associate of the Irish Tax Institute with significant experience advising investment funds, SPVs and corporates on the Irish tax regime with a particular focus on tax planning for international clients. She acts for a broad range of international clients including investment funds, asset managers, investors, international corporates, financial institutions and family offices. She has particular experience in advising investment funds, financial services clients, property funds and SPVs on all aspects of cross-border structuring including advice on VAT, establishment of fund platforms and financing. · Tax

Mac Imrie

Mac is a consultant on Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He has broad experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters. Mac regularly works on mutual fund and hedge fund disputes and in crisis situations, and has been involved in several high-profile fund collapses and resultant litigation and arbitration. Many of his cases involve obtaining interim protection for creditors and shareholders. Mac has significant advocacy experience having appeared as counsel before numerous courts and tribunals around the world. · Commercial Litigation

Malachi Sweetman

Malachi is a partner of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He has extensive experience in commercial litigation and ADR across a broad range of financial and commercial disputes (in a number of jurisdictions), including disputes relating to commercial contracts, partnerships, trust deeds, shareholder agreements, as well as disputes involving banks and other financial institutions. Malachi is also an experienced advocate; in addition to acting for multi-national clients in international arbitrations, he has also advised clients on litigation arising from cross-border insolvencies. · Commercial Litigation

Manuela Belmontes

Manuela is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate and Finance teams in the Maples Group's Dubai office. Manuela's main areas of practice are international capital markets and finance (principally aircraft finance, Islamic finance, structured finance and banking). She has worked on a number of notable sukuk transactions and other Islamic compliant financings, conventional debt offerings and debt issuance programmes as well as bespoke securitisations for clients based in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Manuela regularly advises on aircraft finance transactions for aircraft carriers and leasing companies in the Middle East. Manuela also has broad experience in the establishment and maintenance of a variety of Cayman Islands investment structures and funds, and regularly advises on general corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and joint venture arrangements. · International Capital Markets

Mark Crichton

Mark is head of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Jersey office and partner of the Corporate team. He advises on a range of corporate, finance and investment funds transactions. Mark, a Jersey Advocate, has a particular focus on the use of Jersey structures in corporate real estate transactions, including advising in respect of sharia-compliant holding structures and trust structures. · Banking and Finance

Mary O’Neill

Mary is a partner of Maples and Calder's Asset Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Mary advises private equity investors, operating lessors, financial institutions and airlines on a wide range of asset finance structures. These include asset backed securitisations, aviation platform establishment, warehouse financings, portfolio asset sales & purchases, operating & finance lease structures as well as export credit agency facilities. Mary has an extensive aviation industry background having worked in this sector for many years and brings a wealth of sectoral knowledge to her role. · Asset Finance