Appleby

Corporate, Regulatory

Partner, Head of Regulatory Practice - Cayman Islands

Martin Byers is the Head of the Regulatory Practice Group in the Cayman Islands and advises financial institutions, multinational corporations, insurers, technology companies, governments, regulators and other public authorities, asset managers, private equity sponsors, investment funds, administrators and other entities and individuals on regulatory and compliance matters, including all regulatory aspects of the formation, management, operation and termination of companies, partnerships and other vehicles in the Cayman Islands.

Martin is a financial services regulatory specialist with extensive experience advising on a wide range of matters including licensing, registration and approval requirements, reporting and information exchange obligations (including those deriving from FATCA, the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) and the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF)), economic substance, corporate governance, beneficial ownership transparency, international financial sanctions, on-site compliance inspections, administrative fines and other regulatory enforcement actions, and matters relating to anti-money laundering, counter proliferation financing and combatting the financing of terrorism.

Prior to joining Appleby, Martin led the regulatory practice of another offshore law firm, having originally trained and qualified as a solicitor at Slaughter and May and subsequently worked in the leveraged finance practices of two leading US law firms in London and then as a lawyer in the General Counsel's Division of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

Before qualifying as a lawyer, Martin worked as an analyst in the derivatives and structured finance group at Goldman Sachs.