Andrew Keast
Partner
- Cayman Islands
Areas of Expertise
Andrew is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Fund & Investment Management team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He works with a broad range of prominent institutional and start-up private equity, venture capital and hedge fund clients. He advises on all aspects of investment fund work, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. Andrew also advises a number of the leading sponsors and onshore counsel in the Israeli venture capital space.
Andrew joined the Maples Group in 2011 and was elected as a partner in 2015. He previously worked for an international law firm and as in-house counsel at a large private equity firm in the Channel Islands.
Andrew has been recognised by Legal 500 where clients describe him as ‘very competent and knowledgeable in his field, scrupulous and reliable. He is prompt and responsive.’
Andrew is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association.
Bar Admissions
2004 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (not practising)
2009 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (not practising)
2011 – Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
Education
University of Western Australia, BSc, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Hons)
University of Sydney, Australia, BLaw (Hons)