Aircraft and Shipping Registration
ART Products
Asset Finance
Banking
CDOs and CLOs
Derivatives
Finance Subsidiaries and Branches
Islamic Finance
Project Finance
Repackagings
Securities Regulation
Securitisation
Structured Products



 

Aircraft and Shipping Registration

• Local registration of vessels whether commercial or private tonnage, in George Town, Grand Cayman - a port of British registry
• Local aircraft registration
• Local mortgage registration and enforcement

• Alternative risk transfer structures including:
  • Captive insurers
  • Side cars
  • Contingent capital transactions
  • Catastrophe bond transactions - advising over 90 issuers

• Asset finance transactions, effected through on balance sheet subsidiaries, off balance sheet vehicles or structured as operating, financing or defeasance leases
• All asset types including aircraft, ships, space and satellite equipment and rolling stock
• Warehousing structures
• Advice to government export credit agencies of leading exporting nations
• Public and private rated securitisations for industry members including credit card receivables, securitisations from airline ticket sales and rental income from aircraft leasing portfolios
• Remedies in default scenarios including practical assistance with asset arrest
• Transaction restructuring including asset buyouts, sale and leasebacks and refinancings
• Rating agency requirements and well-accepted true sale and non-consolidation opinions
• Development of innovative deal structures including asset finance through tax-driven limited partnership arrangements and hybrid debt and equity financings

• Traditional loan financing, secured or unsecured, straight or syndicated
• Leveraged and acquisition financing
• Hedge fund financing
• Property financing
• Banking documentation
• Bank regulation and compliance, including policy and best practice
• Establishment and licensing of banks and ongoing regulatory requirements, including the consequences of bank mergers and reorganisations
• Preparation of standard form and specific banking and loan documentation including secured and subordinated lending and syndicated facilities

• CBOs, CLOs and CFOs
• Structure developments including:
  • Preference shares
  • Combination securities representing combinations of notes and preference shares
  • Use of local law-governed note tranches
  • Use of trusts and partnerships as CDO vehicles
• Advice in relation to amendments to, and unwinding of, existing transactions

• Capacity, authority and specific drafting issues relating to derivatives documentation entered into with offshore companies, partnerships and trusts
• Netting and collateral opinions to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), the Bond Market Association and the British Bankers' Association
• Advising counterparties seeking to close out transactions and exercise security rights upon the insolvency of offshore counterparties

• Commercial paper
• Medium-term notes
• Eurobonds
• Preference shares
• Depositary receipts
• Convertible debt
• Warrants
• Other securities

• Offshore structuring for Islamic finance
• Sukuk issuing special purpose companies
• Offshore structures for Islamic derivatives transactions 

• Establishment of a wide range of debt, equity or hybrid interests in project finance ventures including:
  • Road, transport and other infrastructure schemes
  • Utility projects
  • Oil and gas pipelines
  • Refining installations
  • Mining and other natural resource facilities

• Repackaging programmes - advising on over 1,000 issues each year

• Securities regulation advice to brokers, dealers, issuers, advisers, managers and arrangers 
• Regulation and licensing issues in connection with marketing, sale and distribution of securities and other financial products

• Public and private securitisations for all asset types, including use of local law as the governing law of receivables and receivable sale agreements
• Rating agency requirements
• Accepted true sale and non-consolidation analysis

• Development of conduit vehicle structures and structured investment vehicles
• Development of transformer and catastrophe bond structures
• Assisting rating agencies in developing criteria for structured finance companies