Experienced corporate lawyer joins Carey Olsen

The former head of Maples and Calder’s global corporate practice, Henry Harford, has joined Carey Olsen in the Cayman Islands as a consultant.

Having read law at Trinity College, Oxford, Mr Harford qualified as a solicitor with Travers Smith Braithwaite in London in 1989. He subsequently joined Maples in the Cayman Islands and was admitted as an attorney-at-law there in 1991.

Mr Harford retired from Maples and Calder at the end of 2009 having led the firm’s corporate department for the preceding 10 years and served variously on its management committee and the boards of its subsidiaries and affiliates around the world.

Since 2009 Mr Harford has been engaged in a range of private investment projects, start-ups and philanthropic endeavours as well as acting as director of, and consultant to, a number of funds and investment vehicles.

Issued by Sarah Jehan, Orchard PR, [email protected]. 01481 251251

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Carey Olsen is a market leading offshore law firm. We deliver exceptional services to our clients from the key offshore financial centres of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. We also have offices in Cape Town, London and Singapore.

Our firm offers a partner-led service. We employ 350 people and our 43 partners head up a full complement of over 200 lawyers.

We provide legal services in relation to all aspects of corporate and finance, trusts and private wealth, investment funds, insolvency, restructuring and dispute resolution.

We work with an extensive range of clients, including directors, insolvency practitioners, global financial institutions, investment funds, private equity and real estate houses, corporates, trustees, governments and private individuals. We also routinely work with leading onshore legal advisers on international transactions and cases involving our jurisdictions.

Carey Olsen advises more LSE listed clients than any other offshore law firm according to the latest figures released by the Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide, February 2015.

We have more tier 1 rankings from The Legal 500 (UK) than any other offshore law firm.

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