Maples and Calder has welcomed five new attorneys to the firm in just one week. Three are Caymanians, while the others hail from Australia.
Andrew Jones QC, the firm’s head of litigation, moved the applications for the admission of all five in two separate Grand Court ceremonies.
On 18 May, Mr. Robin Harding and Ms Kendra Hurlston were admitted to the Bar of the Cayman Islands before Mrs. Justice Priya Levers.
On 24 May, Mr. Benjamin Gillooly, Ms Sharon Sekulic and Mr. William McCosker were admitted before Mr. Justice Alex Henderson.
According to a press release from Maples & Calder, the three Caymanians joined the firm in 2003 as articled clerks as part of its long-established training programme.
Mr. Harding is the son of John and Valerie Harding.
During the first admission, Mr. Jones said he was pleased that Mr. Harding was following the footsteps of his father, a previous partner of Maples & Calder.
The new attorney noted in his curriculum vitae that he had lived all his life in a leading offshore financial centre, Grand Cayman, and therefore had instilled in him a distinct international commercial perspective.
He graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Politics and Society in 1999. He then earned his law degree at the College of Law in London. His work experience included over a year with the Lord Chancellor’s Headquarters.
Mr. Harding will be joining Maples & Calder’s Hong Kong office as an associate in the near future.
Ms Hurlston, the daughter of Lemuel and Marcia Hurlston, graduated from John Gray High School in 1997. She then attended Albert College in Ontario before obtaining her law degree from the University of Leeds.
During the admission ceremony, Mrs. Justice Levers read a congratulatory note to Ms Hurlston from Chief Justice Anthony Smellie.
Her work experience included summer jobs with another law firm and an insurance company. In 2000 she served as stage manager for Cayman National Cultural Foundation’s diverse troupe performing at Carifesta in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Ms Hurlston will be working with Attorney Julian Reddyhough, head of the firm’s asset and project finance department.
Mr. Gillooly is the son of Ben Gillooly and the late Mary Gillooly. Guests witnessing his bar call included family friends Mr. Michael Bradley, FCO Constitutional Advisor to the Overseas Territories, and Mrs. Patricia Bradley.
In speaking to the admissions, Mr. Jones noted that Mr. Gillooly was born in Cayman and attended St. Ignatius Prep School and George Hicks Middle School.
He then went to secondary school in Dublin, going on to Trinity College in Dublin where he obtained his law degree. Work experience included stints with a dive operation, construction company and bank.
Mr. Gillooly is joining the Maples and Calder mutual funds department.
Both Ms Sekulic and Mr. McCosker graduated from the University of Sydney and were admitted as solicitors to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2000.
Ms Sekulic then worked for almost three years in the area of private equity and acquisition. Much of Mr. McCosker’s experience has been in the field of funds management.
Bar call Harding Hurlston
Attorney Kendra Hurlston and Attorney Robin Harding with Mrs. Justice Priya Levers and Andrew Jones QC
Bar call Gillooly et al
Cayman’s recent bar call featured Attorneys Sharon Sekulic, Benjamin Gillooly (both left) and William McCosker (far right). They are seen with Mr. Justice Alex Henderson and Andrew Jones QC.
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