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Ruairi Bourke

Ruairi is co-head of Maples and Calder’s Corporate and Finance teams in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office. He advises on a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions, stock exchange listings, private equity structures, private placements, corporate restructuring and reorganisation transactions and the formation of joint ventures. On the finance side, Ruairi advises on acquisition, real estate, ship and aircraft finance transactions. He also has significant experience in capital markets transactions, both equity and debt.

Matthew Freeman

Matthew is head of Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's British Virgin Islands office.  He specialises in civil fraud and asset tracing, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, lender enforcement, trust litigation, regulatory, corporate restructuring and insolvency.  Matthew practised in England and Wales for eight years before re-locating to the British Virgin Islands in 2015.  He has considerable case management and advocacy experience at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels, as well as arbitration and mediation. Matthew has also provided expert legal opinions at litigation and arbitration hearings in England and Wales, The Russian Federation, Israel and in the United States.

Matthew Gardner

Matthew is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. His expertise covers all aspects of corporate and commercial work, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Matthew also advises on all types of investment funds and has extensive experience in finance and capital markets.

Chloe Harris

Chloe is an associate in Maples and Calder’s Corporate team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office. Chloe advises on a broad range of corporate and banking and finance transactions, including acquisition finance, investments, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, initial public offerings, corporate reorganisations and general corporate governance.  Chloe also has experience in fund formation within the British Virgin Islands.

Chris Newton

Chris Managing Partner of Maples and Calder’s British Virgin Islands office and head of the global BVI practice. He has a broad corporate and finance practice with particular expertise in restructuring as well as acquisition, asset, project and real estate finance, advising financial institutions, sponsors, investors and borrowers. Chris has substantial experience advising in distressed credit situations including both consensual work outs and contentious enforcements. In addition to his finance practice, Chris advises on debt capital markets transactions and plays an active role in the public equity group, advising companies listing on the North American exchanges as well as bidders and targets in acquisitions. Chris regularly advises a number of key clients around the ongoing requirements of public companies. Chris' clients include high profile Canadian, Chinese, UK and US financial institutions, investment funds and corporates.

Stuart Rau

Stuart is a partner in Maples and Calder’s Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office. He has extensive experience of contentious cross-border matters arising out of multiple jurisdictions including Europe, Asia, the US and the Caribbean. Stuart’s area of practice also specialises in financial litigation and regulatory investigations.

Amel Wehden

Amel is an Of Counsel in Maples and Calder’s Corporate team in the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands office.  She specialises in the areas of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, initial public offerings, corporate reorganisations and general corporate governance.  She also advises investment funds, in particular the establishment and maintenance of hedge funds and private equity funds.