Maples Group

Aisling is partner of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team at the Maples Group. A barrister by training, Aisling specialises in complex, high value, international cross border litigation and acts in some of Asia's largest offshore corporate, insolvency/restructuring and shareholder disputes. She is an expert in contentious matters and has a particular interest in take-privates, statutory mergers, contentious valuations and schemes of arrangement.

Andrew Wood

Andrew's practice focuses on investment funds for Asian clients and includes advising on all aspects relating to the formation and maintenance of both private equity and hedge funds. In addition, he advises on a broad spectrum of matters, including downstream corporate and finance transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as on general corporate law.

Ann Ng

Ann is Co-Head of Maples and Calder's Asia Funds & Investment Management teams in Hong Kong and Singapore. Ann focuses on the international investment fund market. She has expertise in the formation, structuring and restructuring of all types of open and closed end funds, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital, real estate and infrastructure funds. Ann's recent experience includes advising on a number of new investment funds for the largest and most high-profile wealth manager in China, as well as assisting with the launch of multiple investment funds in support of the Belt and Road initiative. Her practice also involves advising a number of international family offices on their strategic investments.

Cherrin Wong

Cherrin is Of Counsel in Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Singapore office. She has over a decade of experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution and is qualified in Singapore, England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands. She specialises in cross-border shareholder and partnership disputes, take-private fair value appraisal litigation, and insolvency related disputes. She regularly advises on issues concerning shareholder remedies and derivative claims, interim applications in aid of foreign proceedings including worldwide freezing injunctions, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Cherrin also has experience advising on contentious fund and corporate matters including breaches of constitutional documents, shareholder and subscription agreements, suspension of redemption requests and other contentious issues at board or shareholder meetings.

Dan Won

Dan is of counsel of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Dan advises on the structure, formation, launch and maintenance of private equity funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds, as well as downstream private equity transactions. Dan has been mentioned by IFLR1000 Asia Pacific as a "strong, up-and-coming" lawyer who is "uniquely positioned to advise Korean private equity clients on Cayman law issues" as a fluent Korean speaker.

Derrick Kan

Derrick is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. His practice covers a broad range of corporate and finance matters involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands companies, with particular focus on initial public offerings in Hong Kong, US and Taiwan, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, pre-IPO financings, debt capital markets transactions, reorganisations and restructurings.

Irena Wu

Irena is of counsel of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. She has been practising offshore law since 2007 and has extensive experience advising clients on both British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law principally assisting international financial institutions and public companies listed on various stock exchanges on corporate finance transactions. She advises on conventional bilateral and syndication lending, project finance, asset and property financing, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.

Jessica Zhan

Jessica is of counsel of the Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Her practice covers corporate transactions involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands companies including finance, mergers and acquisitions, pre-IPO Series financings and restructuring, Hong Kong and US initial public offerings and SPACs. Jessica also advises on debt capital market and general corporate transactions acting for SOEs, corporates and financial institutions.

John Trehey

John is Head of Maples and Calder's Asia Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team. In addition, he advises on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, banking and general corporate matters. He has a broad international client base comprised of major corporates, financial institutions and insolvency-related officeholders. His expertise covers both Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law.

Josie Ainley

Josie is a partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Her practice focuses on investment funds for international clients advising on all aspects relating to the formation and maintenance of both private equity and hedge funds, including extensive regulatory advice. She also has experience in advising on corporate and downstream transactions.

Juno Huang

Juno is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Her practice covers a broad range of corporate and finance matters involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands companies, including private equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures, pre-IPO financings, reorganisations and restructurings, debt capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, banking and financings with a particular focus on initial public offerings and listing of shares of Cayman Islands companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the US and acting in private equity preferred share financing transactions for the most promising technology start-ups and unicorns. Juno is a trusted advisor who regularly advises major listed corporations, household known conglomerates, financial institutions, SOE and private companies on general corporate and commercial transactions of all types.

Karen Zhang Pallaras

Karen is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Her practice covers a broad range of corporate transactions involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands companies including mergers and acquisitions, pre-IPO financings, initial and secondary public offerings, private equity investments, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructurings. Karen has extensive experience advising on significant and market leading M&A and take private transactions involving Hong Kong and US-listed companies. Karen also advises financial institutions, sponsors and corporations on debt financing transactions including leveraged and acquisition finance, debt capital markets transactions, project finance and general corporate lending.

Lorraine Pao

Lorraine is a partner of the Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Her practice covers corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financing, with particular focus on private equity investments, structured finance products, pre-IPO financings, and IPOs of BVI and Cayman Islands companies on global stock exchanges, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. Lorraine also regularly advises clients in China on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions.

Matt Roberts

Matt is a partner and Head of Corporate, Asia of the Maples Group. He specialises in advising financial institutions, publicly listed and private companies, asset managers and promoters on mergers and acquisitions, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), private equity, joint ventures, reorganisations, corporate governance and capital markets (including initial public offerings, secondary offerings and preferred share financings). Matt also has significant experience in advising on the establishment, structuring and restructuring of offshore investment funds at all stages of their life cycle.

Michael Gagie

Michael is Regional Managing Partner of Maples and Calder's Asia offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. He is also Global Head of the firm's British Virgin Islands ("BVI") practice. His experience and areas of practice cover both BVI and Cayman Islands law and include a broad range of banking and structured finance work acting as lender counsel for international and regional banks and borrower work for funds and corporates. In addition, Michael has significant corporate law experience (both public and private work) and regularly advises corporates and private equity funds on joint ventures, pre-IPO structures and downstream private equity acquisitions and disposals.

Nick Stern

Nick is a partner of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. With over 20 years' experience working in London and Hong Kong, his practice focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. He has particular expertise with insolvency and restructuring-related disputes, shareholder disputes, schemes of arrangement and other court-led restructurings.

Nick Harrold

Nick is partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team at the Maples Group. Nick specialises in all aspects of investment funds, advising an international client base, with a particular focus on advising clients who wish to target the Japanese market. He is recommended by Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a standout funds specialist who has the “ability to quickly understand very complicated structures” and whose "strength lies in his ability to apply legal principles to some of the most complex, novel and challenging commercial issues". He is recognised by Legal 500 Asia Pacific as “client-friendly, innovative and commercial' and having an "in-depth knowledge" of the Japanese market.

Richard Spooner

Richard is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity and venture capital investments and general corporate matters. He has extensive experience representing public and private companies in M&A and strategic transactions. Richard also advises major corporations and private equity clients on investments, dispositions, restructurings, reorganisations, spinoffs and joint ventures. He has recently advised on significant M&A and going-private transactions involving Hong Kong and US-listed companies, as well as on various acquisitions and investments in China and across Asia.

Sharon Yap

Sharon is an investment funds and corporate lawyer who specializes in a wide range of funds including private equity, venture capital, infrastructure and real estate funds and hedge funds and also in private equity upstream and downstream transactions. Sharon's broad experience includes advising on the structuring, formation, maintenance and re-structuring of funds and related vehicles, investment structuring, acquisition and disposal of assets, joint ventures, pre-IPO financing and fund financing involving a range of fund vehicles. Her clients include leading global private equity investment firms and financial institutions, investment banks, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds and some of the biggest securities houses in China and Japan plus boutique and start-up managers. Sharon's expertise has led her to be a regular speaker at funds seminars throughout Asia.

Terence Ho

Terence is partner of Maples and Calder's Funds & Investment Management team at the Maples Group. He specialises in investment fund formation and maintenance and has been working in this practice area for over 15 years. His practice covers all types of investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds and hybrid funds. His clients include asset management companies, banks, insurance companies, brokers, distributors, professional trustees and fund administrators in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. He is particularly active in advising Chinese fund sponsors on both China inbound and outbound funds given his fluency in Chinese. Terence is recommended by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. The publication says: "The professional and very diligent Terence Ho is picking up a significant amount of work from PRC fund sponsors, which are appreciative of not only his excellent quality of work but also his ability to speak and write in Cantonese and Mandarin."

Vivian Lee

Vivian is of counsel of the Maples and Calder’s Corporate team in the Maples Group’s Hong Kong office. Her practice covers corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities issues, private equity, pre-IPO restructuring and financing, initial public offerings and listing of shares of Cayman Islands companies in Hong Kong and the United States and general corporate and commercial transactions. Vivian also advises on debt capital market transactions and general corporate lending transactions.

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