Walkers focuses on corporate and international finance law with an emphasis on investment funds, private equity and structured products and capital markets. We provide legal services to FORTUNE 100 and FTSE 100 global corporations and financial institutions, capital markets participants, investment fund managers and middle market companies. We are experienced in all types of international and cross-border transactions and are committed to developing close working relationships with our clients and their professional advisers.
From our global network of eight international offices, Walkers provides legal services to the world’s leading financial institutions and companies. Our global presence spans Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, so we are always open and accessible to clients in all time zones.
Walkers delivers clear, concise and practical advice based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland and Jersey.
Walkers operates expert groups dedicated to the world’s emerging markets in Asia and India. Our specialist attorneys are experienced in working with clients from these regions.
“They have a really good sense of customer service – they have very good lawyers and our clients love working with them.”
Walkers' Cayman Islands office was opened in January 1964 and is consistently ranked in the number one tier of Cayman based law firms by all leading legal directories and periodicals. Our Cayman office attracts leading international financial and corporate clients, including major financial institutions, investment banks, arrangers, promoters and managers, leading law firms, accounting firms, major corporations of all kinds, partnerships, trust companies and other fiduciaries.
Our extensive team of lawyers and support staff focus principally on corporate and international finance law, with an emphasis on investment funds, capital markets and structured finance. Our Cayman office has an international reputation as having the leading hedge fund and private equity funds practices in the Cayman Islands, advising the best-known asset managers, promoters and institutional investors in the investment world for more than four decades.
Additionally our Cayman office is internationally recognised as having the premier insolvency and restructuring group in the Cayman Islands. We also have experienced commercial litigation, private client and trust departments, as well as specialist banking, employment, trust disputes, insurance and regulatory groups.