Jan Golaszewski has joined Carey Olsen’s Cayman Islands office as counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation department.

The appointment follows the launch of Carey Olsen’s Cayman Islands litigation offering in September 2013 with the appointment of partner Michael Makridakis and the subsequent appointment of associate Sophia Harrison in November of the same year.

Mr Golaszewski joins the firm’s expanding Cayman Islands practice. Prior to joining Carey Olsen he practised at Maples & Calder in the Cayman Islands for five years and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Hong Kong for eight years.

Mr Golaszewski advises clients in contentious, semi-contentious and advisory matters related to offshore and investment funds. His practice has an emphasis on multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation and arbitration, fraud and asset tracing, regulatory issues and judicial review proceedings. Many of his previous cases have involved interim protection for creditors and shareholders. Mr Golaszewski is an experienced advocate, appearing regularly in the Grand Court and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2003 and as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands in 2008.

The firm’s head of litigation in the Cayman Islands, Michael Makridakis, said: “Our litigation offering through the Cayman Islands is quickly gaining traction and we retain an extensive and reputable case load. Through Jan’s appointment we will be further strengthening our position as a boutique offering in Cayman focussed on the investment funds sector and corporate insolvency matters.”

Mr Golaszewski is included in the recommended lawyers tables in Chambers Global and was cited as “a real star in the making” in the recent 2013 edition.

About Carey Olsen

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, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. We also have an established presence in Cape Town and the City of London.

We are consistently the firm of choice for our clients and for advisers who refer work to our jurisdictions. Our firm offers a partner-led service. We employ 300 people and our 42 partners head up a total complement of 185 fee earners.

We provide legal services in relation to all areas of corporate and finance law, investment funds and dispute resolution as well as to private clients.

We work with an extensive range of clients including directors, global financial institutions, investment funds, private equity houses, corporations, trustees, governments and private individuals including entrepreneurs.

We also routinely work with leading legal advisers elsewhere on international transactions and cases involving our jurisdictions.

From the Carey Olsen’s Cayman Islands legal team includes partners Jarrod Farley, Nick Bullmore, Anthony McKenzie and Michael Makridakis who together lead a full complement of 11 lawyers. The team advises on corporate, investment funds, litigation and trust law and provides a range of complementary corporate services.

Our Cayman Islands office opened in 2012 with a strong corporate and investment funds legal service offering which in 2013 expanded to include trust and fiduciary legal advice and litigation and dispute resolution representation. Since its inception the practice has developed a strong client portfolio which includes domestic and international banking, commercial, financial institution clients as well as a large number of international law firms and has quickly become a recognised provider of both corporate and legal services.

For further information about Carey Olsen’s Cayman office please visit http://www.careyolsen.com/locations/cayman-islands or email [email protected]