Lawyers in Cayman Islands
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274 lawyers listed
Harriet Mills
Harriet is a senior associate in the property team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of Cayman real estate including development, high value investment, landlord and tenant, joint ventures, real estate finance and corporate structured real estate transactions. Harriet has acted for a range of clients in respect of their property activities with particular focus on hotel and mixed-use development schemes and infrastructure projects. Her client base ranges from experienced property developers, local banks, to entrepreneurs and start-ups looking to open a new business in the Cayman Islands.
Carey Olsen
Harry Rasmussen
Counsel. Harry is an offshore litigator with experience in managing high-profile, high-value, complex commercial disputes, including through to trial. He specialises in shareholder disputes, including s.238 'fair value' appraisal proceedings. Harry has more than a decade's experience managing complex cross-border litigation, including high-profile insolvency and restructuring mandates. Routinely acting for the world's pre-eminent investment managers and institutional shareholders, he is a leading and trusted advisor to clients dealing with s.238 merger appraisal disputes and has acted on the most prominent and high-value matters to come before the Cayman courts. Harry's experience includes advising the largest ever group of dissenting shareholders litigating the c.$9billion privatisation of 58.com; and the largest body of dissenting shareholders in the matter of Nord Anglia, successfully securing hundreds of millions of dollars at trial. Before moving to the Cayman Islands, Harry worked in England at some of the world's largest law firms, focussing on risk management, litigation, and investigations for household-name commercial clients, governments, and local authorities. He joined Collas Crill in 2024. Harry is listed by Legal 500 2020 as a 'key lawyer'. He is presently engaged on several multi-billion-dollar s.238 appraisal disputes proceedings through the Cayman court. Harry is conversant with the key principles underpinning expert valuation and has successfully completed the Harvard (online) Certificate in Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers.
Collas Crill
Hayden Isbister
Hayden 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. Hayden's corporate and commercial experience includes advising on joint venture arrangements and other corporate deals, such as SPACs. He also has experience in structured finance transactions, including CLOs, and advising on fund finance, acquisition finance and general lending matters.
Mourant
Hector Robinson KC
Hector is a Partner in the Mourant Cayman Islands Litigation practice group. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in February 2017. Recognised as a trusted adviser and first port of call for clients and intermediaries seeking Cayman Islands legal advice, Hector regularly appears as Leading Counsel before the Cayman Islands Grand Court and Court of Appeal. He has also appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Hector's work focuses on advising and representing trustees, settlors and beneficiaries in complex cross-border trust and estate, regulatory, fraud and asset tracing, insolvency, contentious property and employment disputes. He speaks regularly at trust conferences and seminars, and has written articles for Solicitors Journal, New Law Journal, PLC Magazine and Private Client Business. Hector has been accepted on a number of occasions by federal and state courts in the USA as an expert on Cayman Islands law.
Mourant
Henry Harford
Henry joined Carey Olsen as a consultant in January 2016. Henry is an experienced Cayman Islands lawyer who was previously the head of Maples and Calder's global corporate practice.
Carey Olsen
Hilary Brooks
Senior Associate
HSM
Hugh Anderson
Partner
Walkers
Huw Moses
Managing Partner
HSM
Ian Jamieson
Ian joined Bedell Cristin (formerly Solomon Harris) in 2008 and became a partner in 2012. Prior to this he worked for a number of onshore law firms, including Eversheds. He also worked for another leading offshore law firm in the BVI for four years where he focused on banking and corporate law as well as Caribbean property matters. Ian's main area of expertise is all types of real estate, with significant experience in hotel transactions. He is also highly experience in banking finance, conveyancing, development work and commercial and residential leasing. Ranked in band 1 by Chambers and partners, Ian leads a highly efficient and client-focused team that was responsible for the largest real estate deal in the history of the Cayman Islands. The team has acted in six of the last eight major hotel transactions, including the first acquisition of a hotel in the Cayman Islands by a Japanese REIT.
Bedell Cristin
Ian Mason
Partner
Walkers
Ingrid Pierce
Global Managing Partner
Walkers
Jacob MacAdam
Partner
Appleby
James Austin-Smith
Counsel
Campbells
James Bergstrom
Partner
Ogier
James Burch
Partner
Walkers
James Heinicke
Partner
Ogier
James Melen
Partner
Walkers
James Murrie
Partner
Walkers
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.
Maples Group
Jarrod Farley
Jarrod is a partner in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. He advises on all corporate and commercial aspects of Cayman Islands law and regulation, with a particular emphasis on investment funds. Jarrod has considerable experience of advising on the establishment of both regulated and unregulated investment funds in the Cayman Islands and of advising investment funds and other vehicles on transactional, financing and compliance matters, including local business licensing.
Carey Olsen
Jasmin Davies
Jasmin is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution, insolvency and trusts and private wealth teams in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of commercial and financial services litigation, liquidations, cross-border restructuring procedures including schemes of arrangement and trusts disputes having appeared before the Courts in a number of jurisdictions. Her clients include companies (and their officers, members and creditors), insolvency practitioners, trustees as well as HNW individuals and families. She is an active member of INSOL/RISA, IWIRC and STEP. Jasmin has been recognised by eprivateclient's Top 35 Under 35, Citywealth's Future Leaders list and was a finalist for STEP's Young Practitioner of the Year award. She has been invited to speak at seminars and conferences in the UK and internationally. Jasmin is also a bilingual German speaker.
Carey Olsen
Jason Allison
Partner
Walkers
Jason Mbakwe
Jason Mbakwe is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team. He focuses his practice on contentious restructuring and insolvency matters, complex commercial litigation, regulatory and white collar crime investigations. Jason has extensive experience advising a broad range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including financial institutions, investment funds, bondholders, ad hoc committees, corporate debtors, directors and insolvency practitioners. Jason regularly advises in relation to formal insolvency procedures in the Cayman Islands; shareholder disputes; minority oppression and directors’ duties; asset recovery; the enforcement of domestic and foreign judgments; information gathering, including Norwich Pharmacal relief; various forms of injunctive relief, including freezing and receivership orders.
Carey Olsen
Jennifer Colegate
Partner
Baker & Partners (Cayman) Limited