Walkers makes up six partners in Cayman Islands for global promotions round

International law firm Walkers has promoted 40 individuals across its Cayman Islands office, effective 1 July 2026*, the largest cohort of any office in this year’s global promotions round.

The office welcomes six new partners and nine senior counsel, alongside seven further promotions across its legal services teams and 18 across business services, reflecting the strength and scale of the Cayman Islands practice.

The new partners reflect the breadth of the firm’s work in the jurisdiction. The Investment Funds practice is strengthened alongside Regulatory & Risk Advisory, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution, Private Capital & Trusts and Insurance.

Matt Goucke, managing partner for Walkers’ Cayman Islands office, said: ‘This is a standout year for the Cayman Islands office. To promote across all of our core practice areas, from investment funds to our growing insurance offering, speaks to the depth of talent we have here and the quality of service our clients can expect. Congratulations to every one of them.’

The latest appointments, which include a number of mid-year promotions recognised alongside the main round, underscore the firm’s continued focus on developing talent from within the Cayman Islands and supporting clients through a deep, well-rounded bench of experts.

It has been another significant year for Walkers. In total, 112 people have been promoted at all levels across the firm’s global offices this year, in one of the largest promotion rounds in its history. Further promotions across WPS will be announced later this month.

The newly promoted professionals are listed below*:

Legal Services

• Philip Aubry, Partner, Private Capital & Trusts

• Daisy Boulter, Partner, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution

• Erin Diachkoff, Partner, Insurance

• Charlie Griffiths, Partner, Regulatory & Risk Advisory

• Erin Panton, Partner, Investment Funds

• Callum Wright, Partner, Regulatory & Risk Advisory

• Sophie Atherton, Senior Counsel, Investment Funds

• Efe Avan-Nomayo, Senior Counsel, Regulatory & Risk Advisory

• Lauren Bond, Senior Counsel, Investment Funds

• Christian Bourke, Senior Counsel, Investment Funds

• Miriam El Ofir, Senior Counsel, Investment Funds

• Olivia Fielding, Senior Counsel, Investment Funds

• Sam Hall, Senior Counsel, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution

• Rebecca Moseley, Senior Counsel, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution

• Laure-Astrid Wigglesworth, Senior Counsel, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution

• Laura Bodden, Paralegal, Investment Funds

• Sofia Dilbert, Executive Legal Secretary, Private Capital & Trusts

• Melody Elwin-Herrera, Legal Secretary, Investment Funds

• Angelica McField, Legal Secretary, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution

• Elena Obregon, Regulatory Executive, Regulatory & Risk Advisory

• Shammara Wishart, Legal Secretary, Finance & Corporate

• Amber Yates, Legal Secretary, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution

Business Services

• Shanai Allan, Facility Services Executive

• Amy Altneu, Lead Senior Knowledge Lawyer

• Che Andrews, Senior Compliance Analyst

• Mike Bishop, Director of IT Relationship Management

• Kaye Carby, Director, Treasury Operations

• Precious Carlos, Finance Support Executive

• David Clark, Principal DevOps Engineer

• Ashli Dinnall, Learning and Development Executive

• Katie Klein, Marketing and Business Development Manager, Americas

• Chelsea Martinez, Senior Compliance Analyst

• Lucas McField, HR Operations Manager

• John McLaughlin, Compliance Analyst

• Sandy Seymour, Head of Strategic Reporting & Management Accounting

• Selena Smith, HR Operations Specialist

• Deshae Terry, Senior Communications and Digital Marketing Executive, Americas

• Tess Theaker, Senior Events Executive, Americas

• Tyshana Watler, Marketing and Business Development Administrator, Americas

• Jerrica Watt, Senior Financial Controller

Proposed promotions that are subject to work permit or other regulatory approvals and will only become effective once the relevant approvals are obtained.