About
The firm: Mourant is a law firm-led, professional services business with over 60 years' experience in the financial services sector. We advise on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and Luxembourg and provide specialist entity management, governance, regulatory and consulting services. We are an international and globally-integrated firm with offices in a number of the world's leading international finance centres, including London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our business is intrinsically linked to the global economy and the capital flows that support it. We serve the needs of our clients in all major time zones, facilitating responsible cross-border finance and investment, the pooling and protection of capital and the resolution of disputes. Our clients include many of the world's leading financial institutions, international corporations, asset managers and institutional investors. We are routinely instructed to work alongside the world's pre-eminent legal, accounting and financial services firms. We have an outstanding reputation for integrity and professional ethics, underpinned by a strong risk management culture. Our Cayman Islands practice specialises in: Banking and finance: The partners in our banking and finance team are highly respected experts in their field, and their practices span the full range of offshore banking and finance work. Our team regularly acts for lenders, borrowers, arrangers, issuers, managers, trustees and other finance parties, and advises 90 per cent of the world’s top 50 banks. We’re renowned for our structured finance and securitisation work, and have a reputation for excelling in the most complex transactions involving offshore law. We’re also regularly appointed as listing sponsor to securities listed on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange and The International Stock Exchange. Corporate: We’re best known for our work on the most complex and demanding transactions – where clients tell us that the strength in depth and hands-on approach of our multi-jurisdictional partner team make all the difference. Regulatory and governance: We provide highly commercial and focused legal advice in relation to the full range of offshore governance and regulatory requirements and issues. Regulatory investigations often span the numerous jurisdictions in which our clients operate. We either manage and co-ordinate our clients’ issues ourselves, seamlessly across those jurisdictions, or we work alongside leading legal and accounting firms to manage matters through to conclusion. We also regularly advise on competition law and data protection law. Funds: Mourant has an international reputation as one of the leading investment funds practices in the Cayman Islands. Our market-leading international team spans time-zones, and is known for the quality and quantity of complex work it handles globally across a wide range of alternative fund asset classes – traditionally real estate, private equity, credit and hedge funds. We’re increasingly called upon to help launch offshore funds for investment in diverse technological areas including digital technology, cryptocurrencies, fintech, renewable energy, medical tech and bio-venture companies. Insolvency and restructuring: Our insolvency and restructuring practice draws together banking, corporate, insolvency, investment funds, litigation, regulatory and restructuring expertise. It deploys carefully integrated, multi-disciplinary teams to work closely with leading professionals in the US, the UK and elsewhere. Mourant plays a leading role in the largest and most high-profile insolvency-related cases in the Cayman Islands, usually cross-border in practice requiring rapid and efficient coordinated advice. It advises on all aspects of complex corporate restructurings, providing pragmatic and workable solutions for its clients. International trusts and private client: We provide exceptional trusts and private client services covering both contentious and non-contentious matters in all our jurisdictions. Our highly regarded international trusts and private client team includes some of the most renowned litigators and legal advisers in the offshore world. With this distinctive global perspective, we’re able to advise neutrally on the most appropriate jurisdiction in which to establish and administer wealth management structures. We work together without jurisdictional boundaries in our clients’ interests. Litigation and dispute resolution: Our litigation team play a leading role in the largest and most high-profile disputes in the Cayman Islands and in international cross-border cases requiring rapid and efficient coordinated advice. Our litigation partners all have considerable experience and are highly regarded for their work. Our clients include major financial institutions, trust companies, regulators, public authorities, prosecutors and high-net-worth individuals.
Office locations
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman
Mourant Po Box 1348, 94 Solaris Avenue Camana Bay Grand Cayman Ky1-1108 Grand Cayman Cayman Islands
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Alastair Lagrange
Alastair is Counsel in our Cayman Islands specialist Regulatory team, advising on anti-money laundering, sanctions, CRS, economic substance, beneficial ownership, data protection, inspections and remediation, licensing and registration applications, and FinTech and virtual assets. He also has significant experience in the establishment, restructuring, management and termination of investment funds, and in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, banking and finance, and corporate governance. · Regulatory
Alexandra Woodcock
Alexandra frequently advises many of the world’s leading finance institutions and private fund sponsors on the structuring and execution of finance transactions and restructurings involving secured lending to Cayman Islands companies, partnerships and unit trusts (including hedge funds and private equity funds). She has extensive experience on fund finance matters and has worked on some of the largest and most high-profile cross-border consensual restructurings. · Banking & Finance
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. · Investment Funds
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. · Corporate / M&A
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. · Insolvency & Restructuring
Finn Howie
Finn is a Partner in our Cayman Islands Corporate and Finance practice, specialising in M&A and banking and finance transactions. He advises leading corporate banks and other financial institutions as well as private investment fund sponsors on Cayman Islands law aspects of asset-backed financings, structured financings, subscription credit facilities and leveraged buyout facilities. · Corporate / M&A
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. · Investment Funds
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. · Litigation
Jonathan Moffatt
Jonathan is a Partner in the Mourant Cayman Litigation practice, specialising in commercial litigation and insolvency. He has worked on the firm's most complex cases, including Primeo Fund's breach of contract claims against HSBC. He also acts in various liquidations and insolvency matters. · Litigation
Neal Lomax
Neal is a Partner in the Mourant Cayman Islands office, specialising in all aspects of corporate work. He has over 20 years' experience advising clients on the establishment and restructuring of Cayman Islands hedge funds and private equity funds. I also represent fund sponsors in connection with seed-capital investments and represent institutional investors in connection with their investments in private funds. Neal's clients implement a broad variety of strategies and include some of the world's leading asset managers. Neal's wide-ranging corporate and commercial experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity capital markets, debt capital markets, SPACs, and Cayman Islands Stock Exchange listings. · Corporate / M&A
Nicholas Fox
Nicholas is a Partner and the Local Practice Leader of the Litigation and Insolvency department in the Mourant Cayman Islands office. Nicholas joined Mourant in 2010 and has over 10 years' experience of litigation in the Cayman Islands and BVI. Nicholas has extensive experience in fraud and asset tracing, insolvency and financial services litigation, as well as regulatory matters. · Litigation
Peter Hayden
Peter is a Partner in the Litigation team in the Mourant Cayman Islands office. He has practised with the firm in the Cayman Islands since the beginning of 2008. Over the last 15 years Peter has acted in many of the largest and most complex cases to be litigated in the Cayman Islands. He acts for the Algosaibi family in their on-going claims against Maan Al Sanea and his companies, successfully obtaining a US$2.5 billion judgment against Mr Al Sanea and settling certain claims. He also acts for the liquidators of the Madoff impacted Primeo fund, in successfully resolving litigation against the Trustee in New York and the Cayman Islands, the investment manager, the Herald feeder fund – where the Privy Council has found in favour of Primeo on both the creditor and shareholder distribution issues – and in the litigation against the administrator and custodian. Peter has acted in a number of precedent setting fund liquidations (including Lancelot, Belmont and Heriot), large fraud cases (including Madoff, Dynamic Decisions, Fletcher and Alpha Re) and high profile restructurings (including Arcapita, CEVA, Eircom, Ocean Rig and Tailored Brands). He is regularly instructed to make urgent applications to obtain interim relief and/or to appoint provisional liquidators/receivers. He also has experience of contentious regulatory matters, including pursuing judicial review proceedings to challenge MLAT and regulatory requests, and have advised on a number of crypto claims. · Litigation
Ramesh Maharaj
Ramesh is a Partner in the Mourant Cayman Islands office, specialising in private equity, non-contentious restructuring and corporate finance transactions. He advises on corporate transactions relating to Cayman Islands entities (companies, partnerships, LLCs), such as take-overs/take-private, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder/investor arrangements, injection of capital, return of funds to investors, SPACs and IPOs. In his non-contentious or consensual restructuring practice, Ramesh advises upon the myriad of options from the Cayman Islands restructuring toolkit, including: debt to equity swaps, golden share rights, participations, warrants, options, redemptions, repurchases, surrenders, contributions, amalgamations, de-mergers and anything else relevant to achieve the intended goal. On finance and security transactions, Ramesh advises upon the granting of valid security, perfection, enforcement of security, repo transactions, swap transactions and Cayman Islands legal opinions. · Corporate / M&A
Rhiannon Williams
Rhiannon is Partner in the Mourant Cayman Corporate and Finance practice. She specialises in all areas of corporate, finance and commercial work, particularly investment funds. Rhiannon advises on joint venture arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and regulatory issues, as well as the establishment, management and restructuring of Cayman investment funds. · Corporate / M&A
Sara Galletly
Sara has significant experience with both Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands regulatory matters; including anti-money laundering, beneficial ownership, economic substance, regulation of Cayman funds and other vehicles, data protection and other evolving regulatory regimes, as well as licensing applications, inspections and enforcement matters. Prior to specialising in regulatory law, Sara's offshore practice focused on investment funds (both hedge funds and private equity), as well as general corporate law and structured finance transactions. · Regulatory & Compliance
Simon Dickson
Simon is a Partner in the Litigation and Insolvency team in the Mourant Cayman Islands office with extensive experience in insolvency and restructuring matters, valuation disputes and fraud and asset tracing. Simon is instructed by financial institutions in respect of the largest and most complex disputes currently before the Courts and is currently instructed in the SINA Corp appraisal case. In the last decade, Simon has acted in most of the major insolvency and restructuring matters including Madoff, Sphinx, and DD Growth and the Abraaj Group. He currently acts for the for creditors of the Direct Lending Income Fund and the liquidators of PetroSaudi International arising out of the IMDB fraud. · Litigation