Areas of Expertise
Caroline is co-head of Maples and Calder’s global Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Caroline advises on all aspects of cross border and domestic insolvency and restructuring issues, in particular contentious and non-contentious restructurings, liquidations, schemes of arrangement and fund wind downs. She advises debtors and key stakeholders in financially distressed circumstances, including banks, funds, bondholders, directors, investors and insolvency practitioners. Caroline also has extensive commercial litigation experience in financial services disputes including appraisal rights/fair value cases and shareholder, board and investment funds disputes. She is an experienced advocate, who regularly appears in the Cayman Islands courts.
Caroline joined the Maples Group as an associate in 2007 and was elected as a partner in 2016. She was previously with A&L Goodbody in Dublin. Caroline has been ranked by Chambers Global, as a Who’s Who Legal ‘Thought Leader’ for restructuring and insolvency and as a ‘Leading Individual’ by Legal 500. Caroline received the Restructuring of the Year Award and Energy Deal of the Year Award from M&A Advisors and the Innovation in Cross-Border Insolvency and Restructuring Award from GRR for her work on the Ocean Rig restructuring.
Speaking Engagement
Maples Insights | Litigation, Restructuring & Insolvency Forum Hong Kong
Member of IWIRC, INSOL, CILPA and III
Bar Admissions
2004 – Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland (not practising)
2007 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (not practising)
2007 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) (not practising)
2010 – Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
Education
Trinity College Dublin, Eire, LLB, Law and French, 2000
Dublin Business School, Eire, Diploma in Accounting and Finance, 2002