Rob Jackson
Managing Partner
Cayman Islands
Rob is the Managing Partner of our Cayman Islands office where he advises on a broad range of finance and corporate transactions involving Cayman Islands companies and partnerships.
He acts primarily for lenders on private equity and hedge financings, secured cross-border transactions and financial restructurings. His finance clients include leading international banks and financial institutions, asset management firms and private equity houses.
He also regularly advises major public and private companies on share acquisitions and disposals, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, IPOs and secondary public offerings, and corporate restructurings across a wide range of industry sectors.
He also regularly advises major public and private companies on share acquisitions and disposals, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, IPOs and secondary public offerings, and corporate restructurings across a wide range of industry sectors.
Always available and gives very good advice.
Experience and recent work
Before being admitted as an Attorney at Law in the Cayman Islands and joining Walkers in 2005, Rob worked at Lovells in London (now Hogan Lovells). Here he specialised in secured cross-border leveraged finance transactions. Prior to this, he worked for Barclays Bank PLC for seven years achieving ACIB status.
He qualified as an English Solicitor with Rowe & Maw (now Mayer Brown International LLP), as a banking and commercial litigator.
He qualified as an English Solicitor with Rowe & Maw (now Mayer Brown International LLP), as a banking and commercial litigator.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Cayman Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- LLB (with honours), Bristol University
- Associate Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB)
2023 IFLR 1000 - Highly Regarded
2023 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Corporate & Finance - Band 1
2023 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Corporate & Commercial
2023 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Banking, Finance & Capital Market
2022 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Corporate & Finance - Band 1
2022 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Corporate & Commercial
2022 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Banking, Finance & Capital Market
2021 IFLR 1000 - Highly Regarded
2021 Chambers and Partners - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance)
2021 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Banking, Finance & Capital Market - "Rob Jackson is outstanding. Always available and gives very good advice."
2021 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Corporate & Commercial
2020 IFLR 1000 - Highly Regarded
2020 Chambers and Partners - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - "Rob Jackson is a highly regarded corporate practitioner"
2020 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
2019-2020 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets - "Rob Jackson 'provides an extremely client-focused service and dovetails seamlessly with leading UK firms on cross-border deals'"
2018-2020 IFLR 1000 - Highly Regarded
2018-2020 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - Corporate & Commercial - "The very responsive Rob Jackson is an excellent lawyer who always gives sound advice" and "Rob Jackson ‘has excellent experience and is good at meeting deadlines’."
2019 Chambers and Partners - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - "Rob Jackson "provides an extremely client-focused service, and co-ordinates seamlessly with leading international firms on cross-border deals."
2018 Chambers Global Guide - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - "He is very smart and really knows his stuff, in addition to having plenty of experience in complex cross-border deals."
2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
2017 Chambers Global Guide - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - "[Rob is] very good at knowing what one needs from Cayman counsel and how to dovetail without duplicating the work of the UK lawyers on the deal."
2017 IFLR 1000 - Leading Lawyer
2015-2017 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial
2016 Chambers Global Guide – Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - "Rob Jackson 'anticipates what the issues will be and has a solution at the ready before they morph into problems'."
2015 Chambers Global Guide – Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - Rob is singled out by clients as "a good, level-headed lawyer who is able to balance and navigate what is required under Cayman law, and also has a business-savvy approach."
2014 Chambers Global Guide - "Sources say: 'His enthusiasm is great, his responsiveness is extremely helpful and he is among the best to address finance-related issues'."
2014 Legal 500 - "Rob Jackson is an ‘excellent practitioner’."
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