Patrick Head

Patrick is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Regulatory & Financial Services team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He has over 18 years of experience practicing in the Cayman Islands and has extensive knowledge of financial services and markets regulation, advising clients on regulatory aspects of complex transactions and adapting to regulatory change and risk management. With extensive private practice experience in corporate and commercial matters, banking, fund finance, regulated investment funds and financial regulatory services, he offers clients unparalleled insights into the legal and regulatory issues affecting financial institutions.

His clients include global financial institutions, banks, asset managers, investment funds, custodians and administrators, financial technology businesses as well virtual asset service providers.

Patrick regularly advises clients on registration and license applications in the Cayman Islands, supporting and integrating new acquisitions and on change in control approvals with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, on reporting obligations and making submissions with the Tax Information Authority and on sanctions related matters with the Financial Reporting Authority. Patrick is an expert in FATCA, CRS, the Securities Investment Business Law, Virtual Asset (Service Providers) Act, Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, Sanctions, Economic Substance, Data Privacy, cross-border conduct of business advice, investment fund regulation, digital assets, beneficial ownership, corporate governance and internal control requirements, compliance policies and regulatory inspections.

He also regularly provides thought leadership and insights through speaking at industry conferences, as a contributor to articles, webinars and podcasts and as an active participant in industry working groups and on governmental consultations on draft legislation and by participating in focus groups.

Patrick joined the Maples group in 2012 and was elected as a partner in 2015. He previously worked in the private equity team of another international law firm in the Cayman Islands and, before that, advised on a wide range of domestic and cross-border leveraged finance transactions in the banking team of Burges Salmon LLP in England. Patrick began his legal career in the corporate and commercial team of Duncan Cotterill in New Zealand. Patrick has been recommended in Chambers Global.