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Stephen James |
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Partner, Global Team Leader - Banking & Asset Finance
Corporate & Commercial
Stephen James is a Partner and the Group Team Leader of the Banking and Asset Finance team within the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group. His practice includes all aspects of Corporate and Commercial law with specialist expertise in securitisations, inversions, reorganisations, and mergers and acquisitions of private and public companies. He has extensive experience in structured financing and lease transactions as well as dealing with natural resource clients, in particular, oil, gas and energy companies.
Stephen has been consistently ranked as a Leading Individual by Chambers Global since 2007. Clients regard him as “highly responsive and pragmatic with his advice and knowledge about the practical aspects of transactions”. Chambers Global 2010 noted that his peers consider him “a pleasure to work with”. Stephen has also been consistently recognised as an expert in Corporate/M&A and Banking and Finance work by PLC Which Lawyer? since 2007. He was also recognised as a Cayman Islands leading lawyer in the 2009 edition of IFLR1000.
Stephen joined Appleby’s Bermuda office as an Associate in 1999 and was advanced to Counsel in 2002. He transferred to the Cayman Islands office in 2004 and became a Partner in 2005. Prior to joining the firm he practised as an Associate with DuMoulin Black, a boutique corporate finance firm in Vancouver from 1994 to 1997, and Senior Vice-President General Counsel with an international publicly listed oil and gas exploration company from 1997 to 1999. Stephen is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society, the Law Society of British Columbia and the Queensland Law Society.
Representative Work
Recent cases include:
• Acted for Coller Investment Management Limited in the closing of the largest secondaries fund ever raised with investor commitments of US$4.5 billion
• Acted in the multi billion dollar sale of Prisma Energy International (holder of the surviving Enron assets) to Ashmore Energy International Limited (now AEI) and ongoing advice as to Cayman law for the AEI group of companies
• The securitisations of shipping container portfolios and transport company income streams
• The restructuring and acquisitions for a leading North American drill rig and services provider
• The purchase of a Middle East State controlled bank through two specially formed private equity investment vehicles
• The capital and debt restructuring of a publicly traded South American electricity utility
• The formation of a major multi billion dollar private equity fund
• The financing and acquisition of a leading PRC internet company
• Advised The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited (Royal London) in relation to (i) the restructuring of the Impala Midco obligations relating to the £154,500,000 PIK Notes issued by Suncap Parma Midco Limited to Royal London and the £154,500,000 PIK Facility Agreement between TDR Parma Midco Limited as borrower and Royal London as lender
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| Cayman Islands |
| Clifton House |
75 Fort Street
PO Box 190 |
| Grand Cayman KY1-1104 |
| Cayman Islands |
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Banking & Asset Finance
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Islamic & Structured Finance
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Corporate Finance
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Latin America
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Aircraft Financing & Registration
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Project Finance
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Securitisation
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Ship Financing & Registration
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| Education |
| Queensland University (Australia) |
| University of Victoria (Canada) |
| Admissions |
| Cayman Islands, Attorney-at-Law, 2004
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| Bermuda, 2001
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| Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, 1994
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| Bar of British Columbia, 1994
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| Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, 1984
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