OVERVIEW
Mac is a consultant on Maples and Calder's Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. He has broad experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters. Mac regularly works on mutual fund and hedge fund disputes and in crisis situations, and has been involved in several high-profile fund collapses and resultant litigation and arbitration. Many of his cases involve obtaining interim protection for creditors and shareholders. Mac has significant advocacy experience having appeared as counsel before numerous courts and tribunals around the world.
BACKGROUND
Mac joined the Maples Group in 2002 and was elected as a partner in 2004. He previously worked for Herbert Smith in Hong Kong and London, and before that, was a barrister and commercial litigation solicitor in New Zealand. In 2022, Mac was appointed as King's Counsel. Mac has been recommended in Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal.
BAR ADMISSIONS
1994 - Admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand (not practising)
1998 - Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong (not practising)
2000 - Admitted as a solicitor and solicitor-advocate in England and Wales (not practising)
2002 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
2003 - Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
2006 - Admitted as a solicitor advocate (civil) in the British Virgin Islands
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Dispute Resolution & Insolvency
Employment
EDUCATION
University of Auckland, New Zealand (Hons)
Mac also holds qualifications in insurance and business studies/accounting.
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KNOWLEDGE
- Privy Council Upholds Shareholder Arbitration Agreement and Stays Just and Equitable Winding Up Petition 21 September 2023
- Winner Takes All: Costs Ruling in the FGL Holdings s.238 Appraisal Action 12 May 2023
- Fair Value is Merger Price for First Time in Cayman Islands s.238 Companies Act Appraisal Case 22 September 2022
- The Arbitration Review of the Americas 2019: Cayman Islands 30 August 2018
NEWS & DEALS
- Maples Group Advises Vista Del Mar Development Ltd 08 April 2019