Nicholas Ward

Nick Ward is a Senior Associate in the Cayman Islands Corporate practice, specialising in investment funds and finance matters.

Nick represents fund sponsors, asset managers, banks and other international financial institutions on a broad range of finance and corporate matters. He specialises in advising hedge fund managers, other private fund sponsors and their onshore counsel with respect to all aspects of the establishment and maintenance of hedge and other private investment funds, their downstream financing and other activities and associated regulatory compliance obligations. He also enjoys working with members of the wider investment community in connection with seeding and side-letter arrangements and series financings, investment managers in connection with sub-advisory mandates involving Cayman Islands fund platform structures and fund boards with respect to their duties under Cayman Islands law and governance arrangements more generally. Nick practised for over a decade in London, including time in-house at one of Europe’s largest hedge fund managers and one of the UK’s largest listed active asset managers.

In addition, Nick has recently advised several ad hoc bondholder groups in relation to Chapter 11 restructurings involving Cayman Islands vehicles and calls on onshore experience in not only advising arrangers, collateral managers and investors in connection with structured product issuances and investments, note issuance programs and repackaging and other structured finance transactions (particularly CLOs), but also hedge and private equity funds, banks, pension funds, insurers and corporates on a wide spectrum of trading, hedging and financing transactions, security and prime brokerage arrangements and investment management-related matters. He has additional recent experience assisting issuers in relation to Cayman Islands Stock Exchange listings.