Mourant

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.