Caroline Barton > Appleby > Cayman Islands, Cayman Islands > Lawyer Profile
Appleby Offices
Appleby George Town
71 Fort Street
George Town
Cayman Islands
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Caroline Barton
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Caroline is a partner within the Corporate department in Cayman.
Her practice areas include asset and project finance, corporate and fund finance, restructuring and mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, private equity and bond offerings.
Caroline regularly represents an extensive list of financial and private equity institutions as well as corporations. Her vast experience reaches across capital markets, corporate, aircraft and shipping.
Caroline is ranked by Legal500 as a “Next Generation Partner – Banking, Finance & Capital Markets. She has also been recognised by Who’s Who Legal with respect to Aircraft Finance, and is acknowledged as ‘Highly Regarded’ in IFLR1000’s 2023 Capital markets and Banking law rankings.
She is ranked by Chambers Global as ‘Band 4: Corporate & Finance Cayman Islands’, earning client feedback such as “she understands local regulations and is good with structuring” and “working with Caroline has been smooth and efficient.” Previous rankings have praised her as “super responsive, always available and solution-oriented.”
Memberships
Caroline is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association and the Law Society of England and Wales. She is also the current Deputy Chairperson of the Board of the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands and a notary public registered in the Cayman Islands.
Education
- University of Bristol (England)
- Nottingham Trent University (England)
Lawyer Rankings
Cayman Islands > Banking, finance and capital markets
(Leading partners)Appleby
remains one of the go-to firms in fund financing, as well as offering a broad and strong service across structured finance, corporate finance, and the range of adjacent practice areas. The practice is renowned as lenders’ counsel and acts for a host of leading names including multinational banks and financial institutions on some of the most complex matters in the Cayman Islands market. Simon Raftopoulos coordinates the team and is the local corporate group head for the firm, taking a major role in the corporate finance matters. Benjamin Woolf is a further standout name, a leading figure in structured finance in the Cayman Islands. Jacob MacAdam assists across corporate finance, private equity, insurance and regulatory, while the banking and asset finance sub group is led by Caroline Barton. Georgina Pullinger is another in the corporate team with finance law expertise, and Dean Bennett is one of the firm’s go-to partners for transactional matters. Asset finance and subscription finance are the two main pillars of Alexandra Simpson‘s work in this area, and the hire of Maree Martin from Conyers in May 2024 bolstered the support team.
Lawyer Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets Cayman Islands
- Leading partners Cayman Islands > Banking, finance and capital markets