Areas of Expertise
Tina is global head of Maples and Calder’s Finance team and is based in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. She leads the Fund Finance and Derivatives practice groups and also has extensive experience in all aspects of banking and securitisations. Tina represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on fund finance and other lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. She advises a large number of international associations and financial institutions on derivatives and issues surrounding related collateral packages in the context of insolvency in the Cayman Islands. She also has significant experience of general corporate and commercial matters and the establishment of offshore investment funds. Tina sits on the Board and is Vice Chair of the Fund Finance Association, a non-profit association for the fund finance market. She is also a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA).
Tina joined the Maples Group in 2005 and was elected as a partner in 2012. She previously worked for Lovells where she completed a secondment to Citibank. Tina has been recommended in Chambers Global, Legal 500 as a ‘Leading Individual’ and Who’s Who Legal. Clients praise that she “continues to maintain her stellar reputation with company and financial institution clients. She is responsive, always well informed, and knowledgeable of the marketplace and its trends.”
Tina sits on the Board and is Vice Chair of the Fund Finance Association, a non-profit association for the fund finance market. She is also a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA).
Bar Admissions
2002 – Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2005 – Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
Education
University of Southampton, UK, LLB (Hons)
College of Law, Guildford, UK, Legal Practice Course