Walkers boosts Cayman team with new partner

05-11-2018

Law firm Walkers has hire Oliver Bell and Paul Nystrom, who have joined Walkers’ Cayman Islands office and Taylors in Bermuda.

Oliver Bell joins the Cayman Islands office as a partner in the firm’s Global Investment Funds Group. Bell advises on all aspects of investment funds law, including pre-formation strategy, organisational structure, regulatory compliance, document preparation and transactional activities for private equity funds and hedge funds and has over 10 years’ experience in providing legal advice to the leading institutions in the financial services sector.

Cayman Islands managing partner Tim Buckley said: “Oliver is a very experienced lawyer with extremely strong investment funds credentials and we are delighted that he has joined our Global Investment Funds Group. Walkers’ investment funds practice is one of the cornerstones of our business and Oliver’s appointment will further bolster our premier international reputation.”

Nystrom joins Taylors in association with Walkers in Bermuda as a Senior Counsel in the corporate practice. He specialises in a broad range of finance and capital market transactions with an emphasis on debt and equity offerings, structured finance, secured lending, mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations.

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