OVERVIEW
Wanda is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. She specialises in repackagings and structured finance transactions. Her area of practice also includes general corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on local licencing and registration. Wanda also has experience in ship and aircraft finance and registration, licensing and equity formation, as well as local immigration, employment, trade and business and special economic zone registrations. She has experience working with export credit agencies in Europe and Latin America, and with airlines globally in the set-up and operation of Cayman Islands special purpose vehicles to participate in the acquisition, finance and leasing of aircraft.
BACKGROUND
Wanda joined the Maples Group in 1998 and was elected as a partner in 2008. She previously worked for a law firm in the Cayman Islands, and before that, was Deputy Clerk of the Grand Cayman Court and Registrar of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. Wanda has been a recognised lawyer in Who's Who Legal, the Legal 500 and IFLR1000.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of transitionary counsel of the Cayman Islands Bar Association
Member of the board of directors of Cayman HospiceCare Ltd. (trading as Jasmine)
Former member of The Central Tenders Committee
Former member of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
BAR ADMISSIONS
1992 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
2009 - Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
EDUCATION
University of Liverpool, UK, LLB
University of London, UK, Commercial Law, LLM
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KNOWLEDGE
- Repack is Back: Issuances in 2020 25 August 2020
- Ten Reasons to Register an Aircraft in the Cayman Islands 16 May 2019
- The Aviation Law Review, 6th Ed.: Cayman Islands 28 September 2018
- Seven Reasons to Register an Aircraft in the Cayman Islands 27 March 2018