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Maples and Calder and Carey Olsen announce new Channel Islands cooperation

Posted: 18 March 2008

Law firms Maples and Calder and Carey Olsen have announced a new arrangement for cooperation in offshore legal work.

This relationship will increase Maples and Calder's capabilities by allowing it to offer a full range of Channel Islands legal advice to its clients through Carey Olsen's lawyers, both in Jersey and Guernsey. It will also give Carey Olsen's clients access to the offshore legal services provided by Maples and Calder, particularly in relation to Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law.

As part of this arrangement, Maples and Calder will cease to practise Jersey law. It is anticipated that most of Maples and Calder's Jersey lawyers will either move elsewhere within the Maples and Calder group or join Carey Olsen's Jersey office. The lawyers advising on Cayman Islands law in Maples and Calder's Jersey office will continue to do so as before. Maples Finance's Jersey operation will also remain unchanged.

Henry Harford, the Managing Partner of Maples and Calder's London office, said: "We operate in a number of offshore jurisdictions and our lawyers excel at analysing the benefits and opportunities provided by their respective regimes. There are significant parallels between our organisations and we look forward to building a closer relationship with Carey Olsen."

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