Recruitment & training

Walkers offers outstanding opportunities for lawyers with more than three years post admission experience in a Commonwealth jurisdiction. The Cayman Islands and the BVI afford an unrivalled life style and Walkers provides highly competitive salaries and interesting as well as varied work.

If you are an ambitious, committed professional dedicated to providing excellent service and advice to clients and you have relevant experience in any of the following areas and are interested in the possibility of joining Walkers, then please apply in the first instance to Victoria Hew, Director of Human Resources at: victoria.hew@walkersglobal.com

• Capital markets and structured finance
• Investment funds
• Trusts
• Insolvency & corporate recovery

Julian Black, formerly a structured finance lawyer at Freshfields in London, describes working in the Cayman Islands:

"Working at Walkers provides the quality of work of a top City firm during the week, combined with the quality of life of a Caribbean island at the week-end. Having been used to running securitisation transactions at Freshfields, my role at Walkers is different in that it involves handling fewer issues on a much larger number of files. It presents different challenges, and satisfaction is derived from staying on top of the issues on each of the different files, and managing one's own practice. The client base at Walkers is top-drawer: clients are mainly from the top investment banks and law firms in London, New York and Tokyo. There is also an entrepreneurial aspect to the role, in terms of generating one's own business opportunities, and that brings its own satisfactions. Whilst working hours can be long, due to pressures in the morning from London and in the evening from the Far East, it is compatible with a life outside work, which is not always the case when working for a "Top 5" firm in London, particularly in the capital markets area.

Life outside work for many revolves around water-sports: you don't want to come to Cayman if you are wedded to culture, and you can't swim! Sailing, windsurfing and fishing facilities are excellent, and the diving is some of the best in the world: if those activities appeal, or you play tennis or golf, and you like a warm climate, then working in the Cayman Islands might appeal."

Vicki Hazelden, formerly a corporate finance lawyer at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in London, joined Walkers in July 2000 and is now a partner in the firm's Cayman office.

"Four years as a corporate finance lawyer in the City was long enough for me - too many late nights and missed holidays. Even in the rare circumstances that I did manage to get away from the demands of the office, I was generally too tired to make the most of it. I enjoy the business of being a lawyer so I wanted to maintain a high quality of work but also gain more control over my working life. The Cayman Islands seemed the perfect solution. That said, you certainly don't come to Cayman for a rest. Even after this short time I am more consistently busy than in London where I was subject to the peaks and troughs of transactional work. Nonetheless it is a different sort of stress and a working environment best suited to someone who enjoys juggling lots of projects at the same time. Walkers is one of the best firms in Cayman so our clients are top drawer. Away from the office, island life is a revelation after London. If you enjoy activities out of doors, weekends with guaranteed sunshine are fantastic and there is always the occasional hurricane warning to stop things getting boring!"

Training

The firm is committed to providing ongoing training for all lawyers. This includes spending approximately US$300,000 each year in scholarships and sponsorship of Caymanian law students at the Cayman Islands Law School and at universities in the UK and elsewhere and at the College of Law in England. There are also opportunities for our lawyers to spend a period of time working at one of Walkers' offices around the world.

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