OVERVIEW
Stephen is the Global Head of the Maples Group's fiduciary services business in Europe and is also a member of the global executive management team, providing strategic direction, oversight and supervision to the business. He oversees the provision of a comprehensive range of investment fund, structured finance and private client services including, directorships, board support and company secretarial services, trustee, share trustee, compliance services, conflict advisory services, liquidations, insurance management, accounting for structured finance vehicles, investment funds and private clients, power of attorney and proxy agent services.
He is also responsible for leading the European team of professionals that provide our aviation and asset financing services to global financial institutions, export credit agencies, investment managers, international corporations, lessors, airlines and private equity funds active in the European aviation sector. The Maples Group has acted on aviation transactions involving over 2,000 aircraft, including leasing, acquisition and disposal, financing and securitisation of aircraft, the establishment of leasing platforms, as well as IPOs in the aviation space and the provision of managing agent and cash management services to aircraft ABS transactions. In servicing aircraft ABS transactions, Stephen aims to leverage our fiduciary capacity to create synergies with our managing agent and cash management offering to provide a holistic management and administration solution to entire leasing and financing platforms.
BACKGROUND
Stephen first joined the Maples Group in the Cayman Islands in 2000. He later re-joined in Dublin in 2006 after working for Deutsche Bank in the Netherlands. He has extensive structured finance experience both in capital markets and structured asset finance. His capital markets expertise includes cash and synthetic CDOs, loan securitisations, repackagings, MTN and CP programmes as well as other conduit structures. Stephen's experience in asset finance includes asset securitisation, structured products and aviation and extends to various multi-jurisdictional bespoke financial solutions.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founding Member of the Irish Aviation Foundation
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland
Past Chairman of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
EDUCATION
Accounting Technician Qualification, Distinction, 1993
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland
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KNOWLEDGE
- The CLOser - October 2023 19 October 2023
- Resilient CLOs Demonstrate Transatlantic Appeal 05 June 2023
- The CLOser - May 2023 22 May 2023
- The CLOser - December 2021 20 December 2021
- The CLOser - May 2021 31 May 2021
- AML Frameworks of Schedule 2 Firms under CBI Scrutiny 05 January 2021
- The CLOser September 2020 16 September 2020
- Maples Group's Unique Perspective on the Aircraft ABS Market 13 March 2020
- The CLOser - February 2020 14 February 2020
- Cautious Dawn for Europe's New STS Securitisation Regime 13 May 2019
NEWS & DEALS
- Maples Group Recognised on Nine Aviation Finance Deals of the Year 22 June 2023
- Maples Group Continues to Support Barnardos UK and Barnardos Ireland this Christmas 20 December 2021
- Maples Group Authorised as Global Aircraft Trading System (GATS) Trustee 07 July 2021
- Maples Group Supports Falko on Inaugural ABS Transaction 28 April 2021
- Maples Group Proud to Support Barnardos UK and Barnardos Ireland 17 December 2020
- Maples Group Enhances Offering with Irish Owner Trustee Services for Aircraft Assets 24 November 2020
- Maples Group Extends Service Offering to Jersey 07 January 2019