Maples Group

Dispute Resolution & Insolvency 
Finance

Nick is a partner in Maples and Calder’s Cayman Islands Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team. Nick primarily focusses on high value cross-border restructurings and insolvency (both consensual and non-consensual), including schemes of arrangement and restructuring officer appointments. Nick also focusses on structuring transactions to mitigate insolvency risk.

He advises clients on a wide range of international restructurings, distressed refinancings, contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters, structured finance transactions (notably advising in relation to CLOs in distress) and derivatives-related issues. His clients include companies and other entities in distressed scenarios, investment funds, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, debt issuers, restructuring officers, official liquidators, creditor groups and shareholders involved in significant cross-border restructurings, insolvencies and distressed situations involving Cayman Islands structures.

His experience includes advising on complex restructurings, refinancings and insolvency matters involving listed companies, investment funds and multinational corporate groups, including, Ocean Rig, China Evergrande, a number of major airlines, E-House and New Ruipeng Pet Group. He regularly advises on proceedings before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, as well as appeals before the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Nick works closely with international counsel and other advisers on major cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.

Nick joined the Maples Group in 2015, having previously practiced with Allen & Overy LLP (now A&O Shearman) in London. He is a member of the Cayman Islands Insolvency Rules Committee and a regular speaker at leading restructuring and insolvency conferences and industry events.

Nick is co-chair of the Insolvency Lawyers' Association's technical committee.

Royal Holloway University of London, UK, BA (Hons), Modern History, Economic History and Politics, 1995

College of Law, London, UK, CPE (commendation), 1996

College of Law, Chester, UK, LPC (distinction), 1997