Companies can overcome such difficulties by utilising power of attorney and proxy services. The Maples Group can assist with these invaluable tools, which provide efficient solutions to the inherent challenges of operating within the global financial industry.
As investors and regulators continue to show increased interest in how funds are controlled and directed, a greater focus is being placed on the benefits of third party governance and independent directors. Third party fund governance provides operational added value to the investment manager and ultimately greater comfort to investors and regulators.
The Maples Group offers a number of qualified, seasoned professionals to act on fund boards, distinguishing itself by the quality of its professional staff, considerable experience and expertise across a broad range of structures and investment strategies. This, coupled with robust policies and procedures, internal systems and a dedicated team of operational, information technology, internal audit and compliance professionals, ensures that our directors are well equipped to provide effective and efficient governance services.
Our team consists of highly qualified professional directors with an average industry experience of over 15 years and backgrounds in law, accountancy, investment management, banks, risk management, management consultancy, trust and private client services and fund administration.
We work with a complex and diverse array of clients and the in-depth experience of our team allows us to tailor our services to the specific needs of each client. Clients choose the Maples Group because of our expertise and market reputation as well as the efficient, seamless service offering we provide.
The collective knowledge of our global network, supported by regional capabilities that are culturally sensitive to the jurisdictions in which you do business, delivers consistent and quality service that speaks your business’ language.
We believe that our approach to the provision of fund governance services is market leading. Our Cayman Islands office can provide:
We provide qualified, experienced professionals, resident in the Cayman Islands, to serve as independent, non-executive directors on the boards of investment funds and special purpose vehicles. Our teams have deep and varied experience across a broad range of structures and strategies and bring an unmatched level of technical expertise.
Cayman Islands unit trusts are a popular vehicle for Asian investors. From a structuring perspective, they provide more flexibility by facilitating tailored terms of the trust to meet bespoke investor demands. Independent trustees are critical to good governance and our highly experienced professionals bring a consistent approach and institutional quality service to investment funds, structured finance vehicles and other corporate bodies. We are licensed to act as a trustee in various jurisdictions and we also have the relevant licenses and specialist professionals to hold voting shares of a fund or special purposed vehicle for the benefit of a charitable trust.
We offer full service entity formation solutions to Cayman Islands entities from dedicated and responsive professionals, enhancing risk management through protocol adherence and timely information updates.
Through the provision of a comprehensive range of company secretarial and board support services, the Maples Group helps reduce administrative burdens to allow companies to focus on their core business objectives. We utilise Nasdaq Boardvantage® to supplement our robust company secretarial and board support services offering, providing clients with effective online meeting and entity document management solutions.
Our full suite of entity formation and management services helps clients centralise and streamline data reporting and compliance, improve transparency, mitigate risks and reduce costs. We provide our clients with reliable and secure access to all of their corporate records via a robust and scalable system.
Our team supports client mandates with services that address accounting, financial reporting and external audit and tax coordination and filing requirements for a variety of investment funds, structured finance entities and special purpose vehicles.
Our team has unrivalled expertise in regulatory matters, particularly in the field of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. We pride ourselves on our established relationships with regulatory bodies and have had significant involvement with the development of financial services law and policy both locally and internationally.
Our dedicated conflict review and advisory team provides guidance on the types of transactions that may be subject to review and on the documentation and supporting information necessary to enable us, as a third-party agent, to review the trades as efficiently and effectively as possible.
In a complex global environment, our full service permanent office solutions and back office support can assist clients with establishing and managing their operations around the world.
Our solutions are designed not to only comply with the AIFMD and UCITS frameworks, but also to enhance our clients’ existing operational processes by way of an experienced team with significant expertise in risk management, finance, operations and regulatory compliance.
We provide third-party outsourcing services to financial institutions, institutional investors, investment managers and international corporations managing CPO funds, assisting clients with the set up and registration of their CPO and supporting ongoing compliance with Commodity Futures Trading Commission and National Futures Association reporting requirements.
Our team of dedicated and experienced individuals focuses solely on providing voluntary liquidation and dissolution services to investment funds and structured finance vehicles. We have one of the largest voluntary liquidation groups in the Cayman Islands and have developed best practice procedures to meet all local statutory requirements. Our experience of dissolving various finance vehicles and investment funds is extensive and we are a market leader in this area.
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