Melissa Lim

Melissa Lim

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Practice Areas

Melissa Lim is based in Walkers' Cayman Islands office where she is a partner in the Global Investment Funds Group. She has extensive experience in a broad range of investment fund structures including private equity funds, hedge funds, technology and venture capital funds, cryptocurrency funds and unit trusts.

Melissa regularly acts for leading investment banks, investment managers, private equity houses and corporate trustees, advising on the structuring and formation of funds, their downstream transactions and exit mechanisms. An integral part of her practice involves advising in relation to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, preference share issues, corporate restructurings and other corporate transactions and FinTech transactions including blockchain projects and digital assets. She also has significant expertise in advising on finance transactions (in particular, capital commitment subscription financing and LBO financing) and related issues of security creation and perfection.

Prior Employment Experience

Prior to joining Walkers, Melissa worked in the Corporate Department of another law firm in the Cayman Islands. She also previously worked in the Banking and Finance Department of Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) in Melbourne, Australia and the Banking and Finance Department of Linklaters in London where she completed a secondment to Citigroup in the Bridge Loans/Leveraged Finance team in the Securitisation Department.

Admitted in & Qualifications

Admitted In:
Cayman Islands
Supreme Court of England and Wales (not practising)
Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia (not practising)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Commerce (Majoring in Accounting), University of Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Melbourne, Australia
Masters of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia

Other Distinctions

2023 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Not only is Melissa super reliable, she is also an absolute pleasure to work with."

2022 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Melissa Lim is brilliant."

2022 Chambers FinTech - "She is incredibly easy to work with, very thorough and detail-oriented and very responsive. She also has very good judgement."

2021 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "She is always very attentive and responsive," [and] "she is an absolute pleasure to work with."

2021 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star

2020 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Sources say she is "great – always helpful on Cayman Islands issues and a pleasure to deal with."

2020 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star

2019 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Market observers say Melissa Lim is "experienced and very well respected" for funds work in the Cayman Islands. Sources add that she is "responsive and knowledgeable" and has "always given creative solutions" when faced by challenging problems."

2019 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star

2018 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "She understands our clients and their businesses. She is very capable of arriving at practical answers and is also incredibly responsive."

2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial

2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Investment Funds

2018 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star

2017 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Melissa Lim was commended by one source as 'absolutely outstanding', and they added: 'Whatever it is, she is there and she is tremendous'."

2017 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Investment Funds

2017 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star - Investment Funds and Banking

2016 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial - "Melissa Lim ‘can both advise on complex issues and defuse difficult situations’"

2016 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star - Investment Funds and Banking

2015 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial

2015 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Investment Funds

Melissa is a co-author of the Cayman Islands chapter of Private Equity in the Cayman Islands: Market and Regulatory Overview. She is also the co-author of How Fund Managers May Deploy the Cayman Islands LLC Structure, published by The Hedge Fund Law Report Vol. 9, No. 48; and also a co-author of the Cayman Islands chapter of the Chambers Fintech Guide.

Boards & Associations

Melissa is a member of the Limited Liability Companies Sub-Committee of the Cayman Islands Financial Services Legislative Committee, a member of the Fintech Sub-Committee of the Cayman Islands Financial Services Legislative Committee, a director of Cayman Finance, a director of the Blockchain Association of the Cayman Islands, and a committee member of Women in Fund Finance.

She was formerly a non-executive director of the Utilities Regulation and Competition Office of the Cayman Islands (a multi-sector regulator regulating the information, communications, technology, energy, water and fuels sectors) and formerly a member of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Digital Assets Working Group.

Melissa is also a member of 100 Women in Finance and the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association.

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"She is always very attentive and responsive," [and] "she is an absolute pleasure to work with."

Chambers Global

 

[She] has "always given creative solutions" when faced by challenging problems.

Chambers Global

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