Lawyers in Cayman Islands
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274 lawyers listed
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.
Maples Group
Appolina Winton
Associate
Appleby
Barnabas Finnigan
Partner
Conyers
Barnaby Gowrie
Partner
Walkers
Barry McEwan
Counsel
Ogier
Benjamin Woolf
Partner
Appleby
Bernadette Carey
Bernadette is the head of our Cayman Islands trusts and private wealth team and has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. She also has significant experience in trust litigation, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust disputes, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes. Bernadette regularly advises high net worth individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, executors, wealth managers, institutional clients, and onshore legal teams on all aspects of trusts and estates law in the Cayman Islands. She is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only and is highly selective. All members must have practiced law in the Academy's areas of interest for at least ten years and must have distinguished themselves through lecturing, writing or participation in professional organizations. They must also have demonstrated a significant interest in the continuing development of the law of their own countries. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client texts, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". Bernadette is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC), and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). She is a director of the Cayman Islands Family Office Association, launched in 2022. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client text books, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". She is also ranked highly by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, features in the 2025 Private Client Global Elite Directory, and was named Top Recommended in the Trusts, Structuring & Offshore category of the 2025 Spear's 500 rankings.
Carey Olsen
Bicrom Das
Partner
Walkers
Bradley Kruger
Partner
Ogier
Carlos De Serpa Pimentel
Partner
Appleby
Caroline Barton
Partner
Appleby
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.
Maples Group
Caroline Williams
Partner
Walkers
Catherine Pham
Catherine is a Partner and the Practice Leader of our Mourant Corporate team in its Cayman Islands office. She specialises in investment funds. Catherine regularly advises private equity sponsors, investment banks and investment managers on the structuring, formation, regulation and governance of investment fund structures (across a broad range of asset classes), their downstream transactions (including finance transactions) and exit mechanisms. She also advises institutional, strategic and seed investors in connection with their investments into investment funds. Catherine is regularly involved in the structuring and implementation of a wide range of corporate transactions, including SPACs, joint venture arrangements, acquisitions and corporate restructurings.
Mourant
Catriona Severns
Catriona is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters.
Carey Olsen
Chantelle Day
Partner. Chantelle has extensive experience with various investment fund structures, including hedge funds, private equity funds, technology and venture capital funds, cryptocurrency funds, segregated portfolio companies and unit trusts. She has worked on a variety of corporate matters including joint ventures, SPACs, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and migrations. She also advises on regulatory matters, including data protection, economic substance, beneficial ownership, FATCA/CRS, VASP and fintech matters, as well as CIMA enforcement matters for corporate service providers.
Collas Crill
Charlotte Crang
Charlotte is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions.
Carey Olsen
Chris Duncan
Chris Duncan is a partner in the corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He leads Carey Olsen's fintech and digital assets group across both the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, being one of the few Cayman and BVI dual qualified advisors in the fintech space. Chris advises clients on the full spectrum of fintech, crypto and digital assets matters, including, structuring and regulatory advice in connection with decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs), token issuances and early stage fundraising, centralised and decentralised exchanges, wallet providers and VC funds, NFT and gaming platforms and miningstaking operations. In addition, Chris advises clients in the regulated sector in connection with applications under both the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands VASP regimes. With a background in regulatory and tax investigations, Chris also regularly helps clients navigate requests and investigations from local and foreign regulators and authorities, leaning on his regulatory investigations background. Chris has published numerous articles and regularly speaks on panels, webinars and podcasts on all things fintech, crypto and web3. Chris is ranked in Band 2 by Chambers & Partners FinTech and is noted as being "very familiar with the blockchain/Web3 space and developments in Cayman law"and "a very sophisticated and responsive lawyer."Chris was also recently recognised in the Citywealth Top 100 Crypto Advisors for 2022 as a highly accredited advisor. Chris is a registered Trusts and Estates practitioner, and has been recognised in the Citywealth Future Leaders List in 2021, the Top 100 Private Client Lawyers in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Citywealth Lawyer of the Year (IFC) – Senior/Managing Associate category for 2020. Chris is ranked in the Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide with sources noting "he can navigate through matters seamlessly" and that he is "very commercial in his thinking". Chris regularly works on the most innovative and highest profile projects including: The formation of Cayman Islands foundation companies used in conjunction with decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and decentralised projects. Advising institutional stablecoin provider on non-custodial wallet offering under Cayman and BVI law Providing structuring and regulatory advice across the Cayman Islands and the BVI in relation the full spectrum of fintech and digital assets matters, from to private and public token sales and protocol launches to centralised and decentralised exchanges. Advising clients on the implications of the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands Virtual Assets Service Providers Acts and providing assistance with applications for registration under the same, including in connection with novel decentralised finance applications. Assisting Jambo on their significant Series A financing round. Advising clients subject to information requests and enforcement notices and assisting with compliance connected to the same. Advising on a significant pre-IPO restructuring of various Cayman Islands trusts and BVI companies in advance of multi-billion dollar IPO. The creation of a variety of private wealth structures to hold and invest crypto and digital assets.
Carey Olsen
Chris Nixon
Chris is a Partner in our Cayman Islands Corporate and Finance team. He specialises in all aspects of corporate and finance work, with an emphasis on investment funds. Chris has significant experience advising a broad range of clients on the formation of all variations of investment funds as well as advising on private equity fund downstream transactions. His corporate and commercial experience includes advising on joint venture arrangements, secondary transactions, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and SPACs. He's also worked on numerous structured finance transactions and advised on fund finance, acquisition finance and general lending matters.
Mourant
Chris Wall
Partner
Ogier
Christian Victory
Partner
HSM
Christine Ballantyne-Drewe
Partner
Walkers
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.
Maples Group
Christopher Harlowe
Christopher is a recognised expert in contentious and non-contentious insolvency, restructuring and recovery work. He acts for insolvency practitioners, lenders, distressed investors, security holders, directors, shareholders and all other stakeholders affected by financial distress.
Mourant