Areas of Expertise
Julia is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s London office. Julia has extensive experience in corporate finance, fund finance and structured finance transactions and advises on all aspects of banking, securitisation, repackagings, fund and other finance matters. She represents both borrowers and large bank syndicates, as well as hedge funds and private equity funds, on lending and financing transactions. Julia advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial deals, including restructurings, joint ventures and M&A transactions as well as on all aspects of establishing and maintaining corporate entities, limited partnerships and segregated portfolio companies. She also has significant experience in debt listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.
Julia joined the Maples Group in 2012. She previously worked for an international law firm in London and, before that, for Torys LLP in Toronto, Canada.
Bar Admissions
2003 – Admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Ontario, Canada (not practising)
2009 – Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2010 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
Education
McGill University, Canada, BA (First Class Honours), 1998
University of British Columbia, Canada, LLB, 2002
Kyushu University, Japan, LLM, 2006 (Monbukagakusho Scholar)
Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London, UK, MA, 2007
Languages
French