Tim Dawson
Partner
Areas of Expertise
Tim is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Regulatory & Financial Services team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. He provides all aspects of regulatory and financial services advice, including in respect of Cayman Islands licensing, prudential and conduct of business requirements, reporting and information exchange obligations (including those deriving from FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard), and advice on duties of data protection and confidentiality, anti-money laundering and combating of terrorist finance. Tim is a member of both industry and Cayman Islands Government legal and regulatory working groups.
Tim joined the Maples Group in 2015, having previously led the regulatory practice of another international law firm in the Cayman Islands. Before that, Tim was a senior associate in the Financial Institutions group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s corporate department in London. He has been ranked by Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner, Who’s Who Legal and listed as a rising star in IFLR1000. Tim is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
Bar Admissions
2003 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (not practising)
2011 – Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
Education
St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, MA (Hons), Modern and Medieval Languages, 1999
College of Law, UK, Post Graduate Diploma in Law, 2000
College of Law, UK, Legal Practitioners Course, 2001
Languages
Portuguese
Spanish