Alex is Head of our Property team with over 25 years’ experience in commercial property in the UK and Isle of Man. After studying law at Cambridge and the College of Law, London, he worked in London on major property transactions for over 10 years before moving to the Island and joining Cains in 2005.
He has enjoyed working on a broad range of transactions across the commercial property sector, advising a wide client base consisting of private and institutional investors, funds, developers, banks, retailers and an extensive list of businesses including care home operators, telecommunications companies, breweries and hoteliers.
His approach is based on delivering technical excellence and commercial advice and his expertise is regularly called on by leading UK and international law firms seeking high quality advice and representation for their clients’ commercial property interests in the Isle of Man. Clients remark that he is “highly knowledgeable” “providing excellent service including key timescales”. Alex is also a former member of the Isle of Man Law Society Property Committee and the Isle of Man Land Registry User Group.
Alex is recognised as a ‘Leading Individual’ in Commercial Property sector by The Legal 500 UK. Clients describe Alex as always “demonstrating professionalism and a great attention to detail, competency and dedication.” He is also praised by clients for “providing clear and timely legal advice, helping the matter at hand to progress as quickly as possible.” Clients also praised Alex for his “in-depth knowledge of property law and excellent advice.”
Seth Caine is a Senior Consultant within our top tier Litigation department, with particular focus on trust disputes, asset tracing & fraud recovery, judicial review and regulatory issues.
He has extensive expertise in relation to shareholder disputes, insolvency and receiverships, interlocutory freezing and disclosure injunctions, trust disputes, jurisdiction issues, doleance/ judicial review, regulatory issues, enforcement of foreign judgments and requests for information from foreign jurisdictions under mutual legal assistance treaties and banking/fiduciary confidentiality issues.
In addition, Seth has advised the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority on enforcement matters in relation to investment business and banking issues and acted for the US Securities and Exchange Commission in the case of Re Poyiadjis in the Isle of Man High Court.
His longstanding reputation is endorsed by his ‘Hall of Fame’ ranking within The Legal 500 UK for his dispute resolution and litigation work and by his inclusion in the top band of litigators in Chamber and Partners UK.
Clients consider him to be “one of the leading litigators on the Island” who has “a great manner in Court and gives solid, commercial advice”. Clients have also commented that he provides “excellent service and his negotiation skills were a particular asset”.
Peter is a Senior Consultant with our top tier Litigation team. He has been repeatedly recognized as a leading practitioner in the Isle of Man and regularly advises clients on strategy and procedure relating to international and domestic commercial disputes, insolvency and money laundering matters. His clients include financial institutions, insurance companies, multi-jurisdictional trust companies and HNWIs as well as acting on instruction from major international law firms.
He has considerable experience advising on cases involving court approved corporate restructuring and business transfer schemes.
Peter appears as counsel in cases before the Isle of Man High Court and the Isle of Man Appeal Court and also has experience of appearing before the Island’s Financial Services tribunal.
His longstanding reputation is endorsed by his ‘Hall of Fame’ standing with The Legal 500 UK, due to his ability to handle some of the Islands’ largest injunction and civil fraud instructions. Clients have commented on Peter as being “very professional, experienced, very responsive and good attention to detail” and “a credit to his profession”.
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Mike is a Senior Consultant within our top tier Shipping and Aviation teams and has over 20 years’ experience of specialising in complex aviation and shipping transactions as well as corporate finance matters.
He has particular expertise in corporate finance areas including equity and debt, general corporate transactions and asset finance including ships, super-yachts and commercial aircraft.
He has practiced in London, Singapore and the Isle of Man since joining Cains in 1999 and due to his in-depth industry knowledge, Mike has been involved in a number of jurisdictionally important transactions including advising the first Isle of Man companies to list in Singapore, New York and Hong Kong.
Mike is instructed regularly by global financial institutions, multi-national corporations and sovereign wealth funds to assist them with high value, complex matters.
Kyle is a Senior Consultant in our Corporate & Commercial team. Kyle is a senior lawyer with a wealth of experience in a broad range of finance, corporate and commercial disciplines, including joint venture work, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, asset finance transactions and private placement and listings.
Kyle qualified as an Isle of Man Advocate in 2003 and is qualified to advise on both the laws of the Isle of Man and the BVI. Prior to joining Cains, Kyle spent a number of years practicing with the largest law firm in the British Virgin Islands and was subsequently a partner and head of the corporate team at another tier 1 Isle of Man law firm.
Kyle has been recognised as a ‘Leading Individual’ in Legal 500 UK in the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets and Corporate & Commercial practice areas. Kyle has been described as “proactive, sensible and pragmatic”, with one client saying: “He always provides advice efficiently and pragmatically, and works very well with our team”.
Chambers & Partners ranked Kyle as a Band 1 lawyer in the Corporate & Finance practice area, with sources describing Kyle as “the perfect offshore lawyer” and “the best of breed on the island”. He was also described by clients as “very professional and attentive” and “super responsive, super commercial, always in front of any issues and gets the job done with a minimum of fuss”.
Prior to joining Cains, Kyle took some time to travel the world with his family.
David is a Consultant within our top tier Litigation team. With a wealth of experience and expertise he is available (subject to his commitments in the Cayman Islands) to assist our advocates on a broad range of complex Manx litigation including company, commercial, trust, and regulatory matters, having had over 35 years’ experience of such matters in the Isle of Man.
David was awarded a CBE in the 2019 New Year’s Honours in recognition of his outstanding services to Manx law.
David is described in The Legal 500 UK as “one of the Manx Bar’s greatest ever legal minds, with a charm and wit that surprises many, making him a pleasure to deal with” who “brings… pragmatism and real work logic to the most complex legal and regulatory matters. Can bring calm and reassurance to the most volatile contentious matters.”
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Paul is a Consultant Solicitor within our top tier Litigation team. With over 30 years’ of practice, Paul is an experienced disputes lawyer, and has worked in multiple jurisdictions including Asia, Australia, UK and Europe, and is admitted in Australia, England and Wales, and Hong Kong.
Paul has a wealth of international litigation and regulatory experience and was most recently Head of Enforcement and Senior Legal Counsel with the IOM Financial Services Authority, leading on several significant local and cross border regulatory investigations. He was previously a partner with global law firm Clyde & Co in Singapore with a speciality in the aviation and insurance sectors.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Paul has been involved numerous senior leadership positions managing high profile cases which touched on criminal and regulatory prosecutions. Paul was one of the lead lawyers acting for Malaysia Airlines in relation to the shooting down of MH17 and the loss of MH370 and regularly dealt with insurers, global regulators and governments, at the highest levels.
Catherine is a Consultant within our Banking and Finance and Corporate and Commercial departments specialising in general corporate and commercial matters. She also has considerable experience advising clients on financial services regulation in the Isle of Man.
She advises both lenders and borrowers in complex multi-jurisdictional finance transactions with a particular emphasis on corporate finance transactions.
She has significant expertise in both corporate and commercial matters and regularly advises international law firms, international financial institutions, alternative lenders, borrowers and individual clients on a broad range of legal issues ranging from corporate acquisition finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, redomiciliations to and from the Isle of Man and insolvency matters.
Catherine also regularly advises clients on regulatory matters affecting the financial services industry and moneylenders in the Isle of Man including, without limitation, change of control matters, promotion of collective investment schemes in the Isle of Man and, more generally, financial services regulation. Catherine has advised many clients regarding the regulation of crypto-assets in the Isle of Man.
Catherine is ranked as a ‘Rising Star’ in the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets category by The Legal 500 UK and is described as a “world-class commercial lawyer” in client feedback. She is recognised by clients as “a pleasure to work with. She is “responsive and transparent which ensures that as a lead counsel, the IOM workstream is in safe hands at all times and will always ensure that the solution is found in a timely and effective manner.”
