Jo Cunningham

Jo is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Jo acts for a range of investment advisers, from start-up managers to some of the most sophisticated, institutional asset managers across a broad spectrum of asset classes, and has been twice profiled as one of the top 50 women in hedge funds. She advises on all aspects of Cayman Islands hedge, credit and private equity funds and is regularly instructed to advise on complex fund and upper-tier reorganisations, including for spin outs, manager acquisitions and succession planning.

Jo joined the Maples Group in 2007. Prior to this, she established a successful practice at the Commercial Bar in London, where she was consistently ranked by legal directories as a leading barrister in her field. Jo has spoken at a number of industry conferences and regularly contributes to publications on fund-related matters. She was part of a small group that was instrumental in the establishment of the Cayman Islands Chapter of 100 Women in Finance and served as the initial co-chair of the Chapter. Jo was profiled by the Hedge Fund Journal in 2015 as one of 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds and has been ranked over consecutive years by IFLR 1000, Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.