Appleby

Partner

Benjamin Woolf is the Corporate Practice Group Head in the Cayman Islands and leads the Structured Finance practice. Benjamin has significant experience within the structured finance sector representing issuers and investors alike on countless structured finance transactions, including primarily, CLOs, CRE CLOs, PACE securitisations and other structured lending transactions. He frequently works on securitisation, representing issuers and underwriters in both public and private offerings of securities backed by a variety of asset classes, including residential products and trade receivables. Benjamin is a member of Appleby’s Scholarship & Student Committee mentoring students and assisting with their formal and informal training. Benjamin also volunteers at the Legal Befrienders Clinic providing pro bono advice in the Cayman Islands for the last eight years. Since 2012, Benjamin has consistently been ranked and highly rated across the leading legal directories. Legal 500 ranks him as a ‘Leading Partner’, recognising him as “highly responsive, pragmatic and commercial, yet extremely technical and capable of managing complex issues.” He is also consistently ranked Band 1 for Corporate & Finance in Chambers Global, where clients describe him as “the best Cayman lawyer in the CLO business” and praise his commercial approach and client service. Benjamin is also rated ‘Highly Regarded’ by IFLR1000 across capital markets, structured finance and securitisation, and M&A.

Benjamin graduated from McGill University with an LL.B and B.C.L.

He was admitted as a Solicitor and called as a Barrister to the Alberta Bar in 2004 (non-practising), as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2009 (non-practising) and as an Attorney-At-Law in the Cayman Islands in 2011.