John Dykstra > Maples Group > Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands > Lawyer Profile
Maples Group Offices
PO BOX 309
UGLAND HOUSE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET,GEORGE TOWN
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1104
Cayman Islands
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John Dykstra
Work Department
Finance
Insurance
Position
John is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He specialises in structured finance, investment funds and corporate and commercial transactions, with an emphasis on catastrophe bond transactions and other insurance-linked securities, CLO transactions, fund financings, structured debt and repackagings.
Career
John joined the Maples Group in 2001. He previously practised with Clifford Chance in London, where he completed a secondment to the fixed income desk at Lehman Brothers. Before that, he practised with Lang Michener (now McMillan) in Canada. John has been recommended for insurance and reinsurance by Who’s Who Legal and noted in Chambers Global and Legal 500 for catastrophe bond transactions.
Memberships
John is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association.
Education
Queens University, Canada, BA, Economics
University of Toronto, Canada, JD
Lawyer Rankings
Cayman Islands > Insurance/reinsurance
Maples Group‘s insurance team offers advice on the full gamut of insurance-related matters, including regulatory compliance work, insurer licensings, capital insurance matters and catastrophe bonds. John Dykstra leads the Cayman practice and routinely advises on catastrophe bond transactions, while Tim Frawley notably focuses on insurance company formations, corporate transactions and regulatory advice, insurance-linked securities, and mortality and longevity risk arrangements. Insurance-linked securities transactions are Joe Jackson‘s key area of expertise in the insurance space.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Corporate and commercial
- Dispute resolution
- Investment funds
- Regulatory and compliance