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Caroline Moran
Work Department
Dispute Resolution & Insolvency
Position
Caroline is a head of Maples and Calder’s global Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Caroline advises on all aspects of cross border and domestic insolvency and restructuring issues, in particular contentious and non-contentious restructurings, liquidations, schemes of arrangement and fund wind downs. She advises debtors and key stakeholders in financially distressed circumstances, including banks, funds, bondholders, directors, investors and insolvency practitioners. Caroline also has extensive commercial litigation experience in financial services disputes including appraisal rights/fair value cases and shareholder, board and investment funds disputes. She is an experienced advocate, who regularly appears in the Cayman Islands courts.
Career
Caroline joined the Maples Group as an associate in 2007 and was elected as a partner in 2016. She was previously with A&L Goodbody in Dublin. Caroline has been ranked by Chambers Global and as a Who’s Who Legal ‘Thought Leader’ for restructuring and insolvency. Caroline received the Restructuring of the Year Award and Energy Deal of the Year Award from M&A Advisors and the Innovation in Cross-Border Insolvency and Restructuring Award from GRR for her work on the Ocean Rig restructuring.
Memberships
Member of IWIRC and INSOL
Education
London School of Economics, UK, LLM (Corporate and Securities Law), 2012
University College Dublin, Eire, Bachelor of Law with Politics (Hons), 2010
Lawyer Rankings
Cayman Islands > Dispute resolution
(Leading partners)Maples Group
‘s contentious offering in the Cayman Islands is regarded as being ‘at the forefront of developments in insolvency and restructuring‘, excelling in all fallout of high-profile insolvencies, as well as supporting on contentious restructuring, investment fund disputes, and fraud and asset tracing cases. Co-leader of the department James Eldridge specialises in insolvency-related issues and regularly represents financial institutions, investors and insolvency officeholders. Fellow practice co-head Caroline Moran ‘is an exceptional operator‘ and advises on all aspects of cross border and domestic insolvency and restructuring issues. Nick Herrod is another key figure, his recent matters include advice on Cayman Islands issues arising from Seadrill’s, NAC DAC’s, Avianca’s and Katerra’s US Chapter 11 proceedings. Malachi Sweetman adds large scale commercial litigation experience, and Quentin Cregan is strong on a range of finance sector dispute resolution. Christian La-Roda Thomas is another name to note, and both Justin Naidu and Luke Armitage stand out as support to the partners.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Corporate and commercial
- Dispute resolution
- Investment funds
- Regulatory and compliance