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Ramesh Maharaj

Ramesh Maharaj

Mourant, Cayman Islands

Work Department

Corporate and Finance

Position

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.

Career

Ramesh has been a practising Cayman Islands attorney since May 2007, and prior to that was a corporate finance and M&A lawyer in the City of London for Denton Wilde Sapte (now Dentons) and Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells).

Education

Admitted in the Cayman Islands Admitted in England & Wales (currently non-practising) Admitted in New York (currently non-practising) Admitted in Trinidad & Tobago (currently non-practising) Law Degree with Honours, University of Durham, England Post-Graduate Training for Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law

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Cayman Islands

Banking, finance and capital markets

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Cayman Islands

Corporate and commercial

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