Hedge Funds
Private Equity
Distressed Funds
Awards and Recognition

 

Hedge Funds

• Advising on legal structure and other formation issues including:
  • Multi-class/series funds
  • Master/feeder funds
  • Side-pockets
• Advising clients who utilise a wide variety of investment strategies including:
  • Traditional market neutral funds
  • Other sector specific objectives such as derivatives and futures, event driven, fixed income, convertibles and funds of funds
• Establishment of hedge funds either as companies, limited partnerships or (particularly for the Japanese market) unit trusts

 


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Private Equity

• Establishment of private equity funds
• Advising on the public and private M&A transactions generated by private equity funds. (Private equity funds are typically not regulated in the British Virgin Islands)

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Distressed Funds

• Our litigation and investment funds lawyers work hand in hand on:
  • Advising funds and their directors on winding down or restructuring funds' affairs
  • Acting for funds and service providers on NAV mis-pricing cases, audit negligence disputes and claims against directors
  • Advising on disputes between funds and investors on subscription terms and the interpretation of side letters
  • Acting for leverage providers and counter-parties to distressed funds
  • Assisting creditors, investors, liquidators and service providers in contentious liquidations and parallel foreign bankruptcy and regulatory proceedings
  • Provision of preventative counselling

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Awards and Recognition

Lipper HedgeWorld Service Providers League Table Guide 2007 - Maples and Calder is ranked as the leading offshore firm both in terms of number of funds and assets under management.


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