Areas of Expertise
Amanda is a partner of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. Amanda has significant experience advising clients on structured finance transactions, particularly CLOs, securitizations, repackagings, credit funds and other CLO investment structures; as well as on fund finance and banking transactions, in which she represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. Amanda also has extensive experience in obtaining listings for clients on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.
Amanda joined the Maples Group in 2014 and was elected as a partner in 2021. She previously worked with Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP in Toronto where she completed her articles and participated in a three- month secondment to the legal department of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Amanda has been ranked as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ by Legal 500.
Amanda is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA).
Bar Admissions
2009 – Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of Ontario, Canada (not practising)
2014 – Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
Education
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, BA (Hons), Philosophy, 2004
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada, J.D. (Hons), 2008