Areas of Expertise
Jo is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Funds & Investment Management team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. She specialises in the establishment and operation of Cayman Islands investment funds, and has a broad range of hedge fund, private equity fund and investment platform clients. Her litigation background combined with her investment fund experience gives her a unique perspective on issues associated with distressed investment funds and she has advised extensively on the reorganisation of such funds.
Jo joined the Maples Group in 2007 and was elected as a partner in 2012. 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 across consecutive years by IFLR 1000, Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.
Jo is a Sustaining Angel of 100 Women in Finance and a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association.
Bar Admissions
2000 – Called to the Bar of England and Wales – Major, Duke of Edinburgh and Pegasus Scholar of the Inner Temple
2007 – Admitted as a barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
2008 – Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
Education
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, BA (First Class, Honours) in Law, MA – Jacobson Prize for Law