OVERVIEW
Manuela is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate and Finance teams in the Maples Group's Dubai office. Manuela's main areas of practice are international capital markets and finance (principally aircraft finance, Islamic finance, structured finance and banking). She has worked on a number of notable sukuk transactions and other Islamic compliant financings, conventional debt offerings and debt issuance programmes as well as bespoke securitisations for clients based in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Manuela regularly advises on aircraft finance transactions for aircraft carriers and leasing companies in the Middle East. Manuela also has broad experience in the establishment and maintenance of a variety of Cayman Islands investment structures and funds, and regularly advises on general corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and joint venture arrangements.BACKGROUND
Manuela joined the Maples Group's Dubai office in 2007 and was elected as a partner in 2015. Prior to that, she worked with a law firm in the Cayman Islands, with Clifford Chance LLP in London and with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto. Manuela has been ranked as a Band 1 lawyer by Chambers Global, where she continues to receive high praise for her finance practice, and has been named as a leading lawyer by Islamic Finance News. She is also described as "excellent" and ranked as a Next Generation Lawyer by Legal 500 and has been named as an "external counsel of the year" for the UAE by Asian-Mena Counsel Magazine.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Member of the Law Society of England and Wales.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
BAR ADMISSIONS
1998 - Admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Ontario, Canada (not practising)
2002 - Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2003 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands
EDUCATION
York University, Canada, LLB (1996) and BBA (Hons) (1993)
LANGUAGES
English
Italian
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KNOWLEDGE
- Cayman Islands Update: Upcoming Fundamental Changes to Beneficial Ownership Regime 12 March 2024
- EU Removes the Cayman Islands from EU AML List: Considerations for Clients 18 January 2024
- H1 2023 populated by ESG Sukuk featuring offshore centers 23 August 2023
- FUNDed - June 2023 01 June 2023
- Cayman and Jersey Structuring for UK Real Estate Transactions 19 April 2023
- Ten Reasons to Register an Aircraft in the Cayman Islands 15 March 2023
- Offshore Centres Update: Q3 Sukuk Activity and Launch of Shariah Compliant Funds 09 December 2022
- Global Sukuk Activity Slows Through the First Half of 2022 19 October 2022
- FUNDed - June 2022 27 June 2022
- Growth in Master Islamic Investment Platforms Facilitated by the Offshore Centres 10 June 2022
NEWS & DEALS
- Maples Group Advises Drake & Scull International PJSC on Landmark Sukuk SPV Issuance 25 June 2024
- 58 Maples Group Lawyers and 16 Practice Groups Recognised in The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 Guide 29 April 2024
- Maples Group Announces 2024 Global Partner and Of Counsel Promotions 20 February 2024
- Maples Group "Top Class" and "Go to Firm" According to 2024 Chambers Global Guide 15 February 2024
- Maples Group Partners Named IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2023 29 November 2023
- Maples Group Recognised on Nine Aviation Finance Deals of the Year 22 June 2023
- Maples Group Lawyers Earn Top Rankings in The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 Guide 19 April 2023
- Multi-Jurisidictional Maples Group Team Advise AlJazira on Vodafone Campus Acquisition 05 April 2023
- Maples Group Recognised on Five Award-Winning Aviation Finance Deals 10 May 2022
- Four Maples Group Partners Named IFLR1000 Women Leaders 05 April 2022