John Dykstra > Maples Group > Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands > Lawyer Profile

Maples Group
PO BOX 309
UGLAND HOUSE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET,GEORGE TOWN
GRAND CAYMAN KY1-1104
Cayman Islands

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.