Benjamin Woolf
Global Guide 2024
Band 1 : Corporate & Finance
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+1 345 814 2006Share profile
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About
Provided by Benjamin Woolf
Practice Areas
Corporate, Banking & Asset Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Structured Finance.
Career
Benjamin Woolf is a partner in the Corporate department and leads the Structured Finance practice.
Benjamin has significant experience within the structured finance sector representing issuers and investors alike on countless structured finance transactions, including primarily, CLOs, CRE CLOs, PACE securitisations and other structured lending transactions. He frequently works on securitisation, representing issuers and underwriters in both public and private offerings of securities backed by a variety of asset classes, including residential products and trade receivables.
Benjamin is a member of Appleby’s Scholarship & Student Committee mentoring students and assisting with their formal and informal training. Benjamin also volunteers at the Legal Befrienders Clinic providing pro bono advice in the Cayman Islands for the last eight years.
Before joining Appleby in 2011, Benjamin practised in London with Clifford Chance LLP and, subsequently, as a senior associate at Mayer Brown LLP where he worked primarily on securitisation.
Other experience includes restructuring and acquisition finance as well as public equity offerings and private placements in the oil and gas sphere.
Professional Memberships
He was admitted as a Solicitor and called as a Barrister to the Alberta Bar in 2004 (non-practising), as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2009 (non-practising) and as an Attorney-At-Law in the Cayman Islands in 2011.
Chambers Review
Global
Benjamin Woolf comes highly recommended for his strengths in Cayman structured finance mandates, particularly CLOs. He is also very capable when it comes to mergers, acquisitions and debt capital markets issuances.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Benjamin Woolf is a very solid, smart and reliable attorney."
"Benjamin Woolf is proactive in letting us know about issues we should be aware of. He is commercial, personable and always available and responsive."
"Benjamin Woolf's knowledge of structured finance, CLOs, and other asset classes is fantastic. His market experience is broad and deep, and he takes a very practical and commercial approach to deals, guided by his understanding of client goals."
"Benjamin Woolf is a very solid, smart and reliable attorney."
"Benjamin Woolf is proactive in letting us know about issues we should be aware of. He is commercial, personable and always available and responsive."
"Benjamin Woolf's knowledge of structured finance, CLOs, and other asset classes is fantastic. His market experience is broad and deep, and he takes a very practical and commercial approach to deals, guided by his understanding of client goals."