Wanda Ebanks > 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

Position

Wanda is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office.  She specialises in repackagings and structured finance transactions. Her area of practice also includes general corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on local licencing and registration.  Wanda also has experience in ship and aircraft finance and registration, licensing and equity formation, as well as local immigration, employment, trade and business and special economic zone registrations.  She has experience working with export credit agencies in Europe and Latin America, and with airlines globally in the set-up and operation of Cayman Islands special purpose vehicles to participate in the acquisition, finance and leasing of aircraft.

Career

Wanda joined the Maples Group in 1998 and was elected as a partner in 2008.  She previously worked for a law firm in the Cayman Islands, and before that, was Deputy Clerk of the Grand Cayman Court and Registrar of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal.  Wanda has been a recognised lawyer in Who’s Who Legal, the Legal 500 and IFLR1000.

Memberships

Member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA)

Member of transitionary counsel of the Cayman Islands Bar Association

Member of the board of directors of Cayman HospiceCare Ltd. (trading as Jasmine)

Former member of The Central Tenders Committee

Former member of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority

Education

University of Liverpool, UK, LLB

University of London, UK, Commercial Law, LLM

Lawyer Rankings

Cayman Islands > Banking, finance and capital markets

(Next Generation Partners)

Wanda Ebanks – Maples Group

With offices in key jurisdictions, the Maples Group is a key player in corporate, commercial, finance, and investment funds, and houses a specialised team advising on an array of issues, spanning asset finance work, banking issues, structured and fund financings, and insurance-linked securities. Global finance head Scott Macdonald is particularly active in CLOs, structured funds and fund derivative products, while finance team lead Tina Meigh is an expert in the fund finance space. Alongside her specialism in repackaging and structured finance transactions, Wanda Ebanks also handles ship and aircraft finance and registration issues, and regularly works with European and Latin American export credit agencies. Both asset finance co-chair Jonathon Meloy and debt capital markets specialist Anthony Philp are noted for their expertise in aircraft financing and corporate finance transactions. James Reeve‘s focus is on structured finance transactions, while head of the CSX-listing practice Amanda Lazier is a specialist in the CLO space.