Dillon Eustace
The Cayman Islands office, located on Grand Cayman, is one of four global locations, with headquarters in Dublin and
additional offices in New York and Tokyo. The firm is committed to team development and delivering proactive, tailored services to clients. The Cayman office is largely dedicated to the investment funds practice, advising the managers, prime brokers, independent directors, etc. of hedge funds, private equity funds and a variety of other investment vehicles in the formation of international capital-raising funds.
The firm
advised
on transactions
showcasing deep
expertise in complex fund structuring and cross-border financing. Notably, the team supported Blantyre Capital in launching a global special situations Irish regulated fund, featuring a multijurisdictional structure spanning Cayman, Ireland, and the UK. The fund design included feeder funds, intermediaries, and SPVs tailored for tax efficiency and marketability across the US, EU, and UK. The firm also led the expansion of Blantyre’s largest capital-raising platform to date, involving sixteen Cayman PE funds, ten sub-funds, and a dedicated US structure—all backed by major subscription financing from global lenders.
Key clients include
Crossroads Capital Management, Deutsche Bank, Intertrust,
and UBS Fund Services.
Stuarts Humphries
Headquartered
on Grand Cayman, Stuart Humphries is a notable offshore firm and founding member of The Alternative Investment Management Association Limited, as well as a listing agent for the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. This client-oriented legal practice offers integrated corporate and commercial legal advice from experienced attorneys. The firm emphasizes financial, corporate, and investment fund matters, including M&A deals, restructuring, and various financings. Additionally, Stuarts Humphries is involved in traditional fund formations and those related to fintech and cryptocurrency.
Stuarts
demonstrated excellence in sovereign finance, regulatory structuring, and fund formation throughout 2024. The firm played a pivotal role in Jamaica’s pioneering securitization of airport revenues—a first-of-its-kind transaction that set a national precedent and reinforced Cayman’s standing in global financial innovation.
Additional mandates included ongoing counsel to Petrobras on group restructurings and compliance, formation of Cayman SPAC vehicles, and cross-border structuring of investment platforms in wealth and real estate. These highlights reflect the firm’s strength in navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional legal frameworks.
Bedell Cristin
While Bedell Cristin’s Cayman Islands office is found on Grand Cayman, the firm boasts additional offices in the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, Jersey,
London and Singapore.
Campbells
Founded in 1970,
Campbells is an internationally
recognised offshore firm. It maintains offices in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong. Its Caymans office is located on the island of Grand Cayman.
Carey Olsen
One of nine firm
offices including Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Channel Islands, Singapore, South Africa, Hong Kong and UK outfits,
Carey Olsen’s Cayman Islands office was opened in 2012 and is located on Grand Cayman.
The firm’s activity
is centered around offshore deals in the
banking and finance, capital markets, investment funds and
M&A practices.
In
banking and finance, the firm
represents
both lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of offshore deals including those related to
acquisition and
real estate finance in addition to representing clients
from the aviation sector.
In capital markets, the firm is involved in representing issuers and sponsors in share
offer and IPO transactions.
Conyers Dill & Pearman
International law firm
Conyers was founded in Bermuda in 1928 as the country’s first offshore law firm. It has since expanded to the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong,
London and Singapore.
Its Caymans office
is located in George Town on the island of Grand Cayman and is best known for its financial and corporate practice.
The firm
deals in a range
of practices
including
capital markets, finance, M&A and restructuring,
in addition to maintaining a notable presence in investment funds. Conyers’ clientele is constituted largely of
corporate entities, financial
institutions and private equity firms.
The firm’s capital markets involvement
centralises equity-side transactions such as IPOs and secondary share offerings. The capital markets group also advises on
securitisation
deals. In addition to Cayman Islands law, Conyers is also able to advise on BVI and Bermuda law.
Forbes Hare
Forbes Hare
is an offshore law firm founded in 2005 with offices in British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands,
London and Singapore. Its Cayman office is in Grand Cayman.
The firm is active in
capital markets, finance, M&A,
investment funds,
project finance and restructuring. The firm’s capital markets involvement is debt-side focused,
largely including IPO transactions.
In finance, the firm represents both lenders and borrowers, including
banks, corporations and financial institutions.
In the project finance space, the firm focuses on representing banks as
lenders on a variety of
sophisticated development deals.
The firm practices
both British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law.
Harneys
Harneys
is an offshore law firm founded in 1960 in
British Virgin Islands. It has since expanded to other locations across the world including Hong Kong, London,
Montevideo and Singapore.
Its Cayman
office is
found on Grand Cayman.
The firm is active in capital markets, finance, M&A, project finance, real estate and restructuring.
The capital markets group focuses on the debt side, specialising in IPOs. In finance, the firm is noted for its experience in securing acquisition financing.
The firm’s services run the gamut of public and private deal types in the M&A space, advising on both the acquirer and seller side.
It emphasises, however, advising partners on cross-border joint venture deals. In the real estate space, the firm is active in securing
financing for development projects. In restructuring,
the firm focuses on representing
corporate debtors.
HSM
HSM, a full-service law firm founded in 2012 in the Cayman Islands, advises financial institutions and businesses operating locally. Specializing in business and regulatory licensing, the firm practices Cayman, BVI, Canada, Gibraltar, and UK law. Their extensive experience in local transactions provides a unique competitive edge, enabling them to handle complex, distinct transactions requiring deep local law knowledge. This expertise ensures a smooth, cohesive approach for clients, leading to highly successful transaction outcomes.
Loeb Smith
Loeb
Smith’s
Grand Cayman office is one of three locations for the offshore corporate firm. Fully committed to efficiently maximizing their client's commercial advantage while minimizing their risk, the firm specializes in banking and finance, capital markets, investment funds, and M&A. In banking and finance, it
represents fund managers in acquisition and asset financing. The capital markets team handles both debt and equity representation, including bond and note issuances and IPOs. In investment funds, the firm advises on the formation and restructuring of various funds, particularly for blockchain and fintech clients. The M&A practice focuses on mergers and privatizations in the corporate and financial services sectors.
Mourant Ozannes
International offshore firm Mourant opened its Cayman Islands office in 1992 on the island of Grand Cayman.
Founded in Guernsey, the firm features additional locations in
the British Virgin Islands,
Hong Kong,
Jersey and the UK.
The firm is noted for its involvement in capital markets, finance,
investment funds, M&A and restructuring.
The firm’s capital markets practice
handles transactions on both the debt and equity sides, attending to a high volume of IPOs and bond issuances.
In finance, the firm
is active on the lender and borrower side, representing
corporate clients and
banks in a variety of roles.
In the investment funds space, the firm is noted for its representation of
private equity and hedge fund managers in formations.
Ogier
Ogier is a 1,100-strong global offshore law firm that has served clients for over 150 years. The firm operates in Guernsey and boasts a wide network of offices across the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg. The Guernsey office has a deep bench of partners, with the likes of Bryon Rees and Tim Clipstone leading many of the firm's highlight corporate, investment funds and regulatory mandates, while Christopher Jones and Paul Chanter lead the office's banking and finance practice. The firm also hired an additional
partner in Richard Sharp in early 2023.
The firm
advised on
significant transactions in 2024including a standout cross-border engagement where the team guided the complex pre-closing restructuring of Alps, involving the creation of
Cayman- exempted companies and a multi-jurisdictional merger process to support a Nasdaq listing. The firm’s
expertise in structuring global investment vehicles, mergers, and fund governance reinforces its reputation for navigating high-stakes transactions with precision and regulatory fluency.
Colombier Acquisition Corp and Globalink Investment.
Travers Thorp Alberga
Travers Thorp Alberga
is a boutique firm founded in the Cayman Islands in 1978. Since then, it has internationally expanded to offices in the British Virgin Islands, Canberra and Hong Kong.
Walkers
International law firm Walkers’ Cayman Islands office was founded in 1964 on Grand Cayman and has since become one of the Cayman Islands’ leading firms in financial and corporate law.
The firm maintains 10 offices globally in Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Dublin, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey,
London and Singapore. The firm boasts specialised knowledge of the aviation sector
and is known widely for its proficiency in the practice areas of capital markets, finance, investment funds, M&A, project finance and restructuring. In capital markets, the firm represents
debt-side clients in
such transactions as green bond issuances and notes programmes, in addition to attending to structured finance deals
including CDOs and CLOs
In the finance space, the firm is particularly active in
securing leveraged and aircraft financing, though it is also active in general corporate asset finance.
