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John is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance and Insurance teams in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He specialises in structured finance, investment funds and corporate and commercial transactions, with an emphasis on catastrophe bond transactions and other insurance-linked securities, CLO transactions, fund financings, structured debt and repackagings.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Finance
Insurance
Background
John joined the Maples Group in 2001. He previously practised with Clifford Chance in London, where he completed a secondment to the fixed income desk at Lehman Brothers. Before that, he practised with Lang Michener (now McMillan) in Canada. John has been recommended for insurance and reinsurance by Who's Who Legal and noted in Chambers Global and Legal 500 for catastrophe bond transactions.
BAR ADMISSIONS
1995 - Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of Ontario, Canada (not practising)
1999 - Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2001 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
EDUCATION
Queens University, Canada, BA, Economics
University of Toronto, Canada, JD
Knowledge
The CLOser - February 2020
14-February-2020
The CLOser - September 2019
18-September-2019
Captive Review ILS 2019
03-June-2019
The Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review, 7th Ed.: Cayman Islands
23-May-2019
The CLOser - February 2019
19-February-2019
US Bankruptcy Court Upholds Industry View of CDOs / CLOs
19-February-2019