Manuela Belmontes > Maples Group > Dubai, United Arab Emirates > Lawyer Profile
Maples Group Offices
THE EXCHANGE BUILDING, 5TH FLOOR, DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE
SHEIKH ZAYED ROAD, PO BOX 119980
DUBAI
United Arab Emirates
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Manuela Belmontes
Position
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.
Career
Manuela joined the Maples Group’s Dubai office in 2007 and was elected as a partner in 2015. Prior to that, she worked with a law firm in the Cayman Islands, with Clifford Chance LLP in London and with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto.
Languages
Italian
Memberships
Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Member of the Law Society of England and Wales.
Education
York University, Canada, LLB (1996) and BBA (Hons) (1993)
Lawyer Rankings
Foreign-based expertise > Leading firms
(Leading Individuals)United Arab Emirates > Offshore
(Hall of Fame)With ‘a wealth of experience in the private funds space’, Maples Group is a key contact for an assortment of private clients on British Virgin Island and Cayman Island law. Praised as ‘accessible, knowledgeable, and pragmatic’ Manuela Belmontes
and Gurminder Sanghera often handle finance transactions for aircraft carriers and have strength in capital markets and finance matters. Philip Ireland is well-versed in collective investment schemes, notably private equity funds and Oliver Simpson is well regarded for his capabilities in corporate transactions pertaining to major hotels and resorts.