Amanda Lazier > 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
Listing Services

Position

Amanda is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office.  Amanda has significant experience advising clients on structured finance transactions, particularly CLOs, securitizations, repackagings, credit funds and other CLO investment structures; as well as on fund finance and banking transactions, in which she represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. Amanda also has extensive experience in obtaining listings for clients on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.

Career

Amanda joined the Maples Group in 2014 and was elected as a partner in 2021.  She previously worked with Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP in Toronto where she completed her articles and participated in a three- month secondment to the legal department of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).

Memberships

Amanda is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA).

Education

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada, J.D. (Hons), 2008

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, B.A. (Hons), Philosophy, 2004

Lawyer Rankings

Cayman Islands > Banking, finance and capital markets

(Next Generation Partners)

Amanda LazierMaples 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.