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Litigation, Trusts, Commercial Litigation, Disputes

Partner and Global Head of Trust and Private Client at Maples Group

• Location: Cayman Islands
• Duration: 2024-09 to Present
• Description: Nicholas is global head of Maples and Calder’s Trusts & Private Client team and is based in the Maples Group’s London office. He is considered by all of the major rankings including Chambers & Partners, Spears and the Legal 500 to be one of the world’s best private client lawyers. He specialises in international and offshore trusts and estates work. Nicholas advises on the settlement or establishment of trusts, their administration and complex issues arising during the life of the trust as well as the trust’s final distribution. He is also regularly consulted about estates work including the drafting of wills and estate plans, power of attorney, grants of probate, resealing of foreign grants and challenges to estate plans. Nicholas joined the Maples Group in 2024. He began his career in Vancouver, British Columbia with Harper Grey in 1996, before qualifying in Ontario in 2001 and becoming a partner with the firm WeirFoulds LLP. In 2008, Nicholas had his first stint in another international law firm in the Cayman Islands, after which he qualified in England and became the Head of Contentious Trusts and Estates with Bircham Dyson Bell. In 2014, he joined the Private Client department of McDermott Will & Emery in London, UK where he remained until he joined the Maples Group.

Partner at McDermott Will & Emery

• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Duration: 2014-10 to 2024-09
• Description: Nick is a partner in the private client department at McDermott Will & Emery where he focuses his practice on trusts and estates litigation and contentious matters. He is routinely ranked in the directories for his expertise in contentious trusts and estates.

Partner and Head of Contentious Trusts and Estates at BDB Pitmans

• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Duration: 2010-11 to 2014-10
• Description: I was a partner and the head of contentious trusts and estates at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP in London.

Head of Commercial, Estates and Trusts Litigation at Bedell Cristin

• Location: Cayman Islands
• Duration: 2008-04 to 2010-11
• Description: Solomon Harris nka Bedell Cayman: Off-shore and international trusts litigation, estates litigation and hedge fund disputes.

Adjunct Lecturer at University College of the Cayman Islands

• Location: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
• Duration: 2009 to 2009
• Description: I taught classes periodically at the University College of the Cayman Islands