Maples Group

Philip is joint managing partner of Maples and Calder, in the Maples Group's Dubai office where is also head of the Funds & Investment Management and Corporate teams.  He has broad Cayman Islands corporate and investment funds experience.  However, he specialises in collective investment schemes, in particular private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, and Shariah compliant (Islamic) funds.  He also has experience of working with family offices, ultra high net worth individuals. Philip’s clients include asset managers in the Dubai International Financial Centre and the MENA region.  He also practises British Virgin Islands law.

Philip joined the Maples Group in London in 2004, before moving to Dubai in 2006.  He was elected as a partner in 2009 and as joint managing partner in 2020.  Philip previously worked at another international law firm in the British Virgin Islands and for Herbert Smith in London

Member of the Law Society of England and Wales

Member of the Bar of the British Virgin Islands

Regular contributor to financial publications in the Middle East in relation to offshore investment funds

University of Cambridge, UK, BA (Hons), Law, 1992

College of Law, Guildford, UK, Legal Practice Course, 1994