Walkers is a leading international law firm providing legal, corporate, tax, listing and professional services to global corporations, financial institutions and capital markets participants.

Walkers’ Derivatives Group is the only specialist derivatives practice in the Cayman Islands and consists of professionals who have significant onshore transactional derivatives experience from their prior employment with English magic circle law firms or who have experience managing the regulatory aspects of securities and derivatives business while working in-house at leading global financial institutions.

The Group has unrivalled experience and assists major investment banks, prime brokers and other financial institutions, fund managers and corporate clients on the Cayman Islands aspects of their derivatives, repo, securities lending, prime brokerage and clearing/settlement arrangements. The Group also has considerable experience working on bespoke derivatives structures involving SPVs and regularly provides bespoke set-off and netting opinions or advice across a wide range of transaction types.