Caroline Dekker

Senior Associate

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Caroline Dekker is a Senior Associate in the Cayman Islands Corporate practice.

Caroline represents clients on a wide range of public and private corporate matters, with a particular focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and equity capital markets transactions. She has a wealth of experience advising on IPOs, SPACs, M&A transactions, take-privates, joint ventures and corporate restructures.

Before joining Conyers, Caroline worked as a corporate associate at another offshore law firm in the Cayman Islands. Prior to that, she was a member of the market-leading corporate team at Bell Gully in New Zealand.

Jurisdiction

Cayman Islands

Experience

Experience prior to joining Conyers:

Advised a top 20 global insurance broker and its subsidiaries on the restructuring of its investment structure, resulting in a US$7.5 billion valuation.
Advised a Cayman Islands special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on its US$1.7 billion business combination with a global technology waste and recycling business.
Acted as Cayman Islands counsel to a US-based cybersecurity software firm with an enterprise value of approximately US$1.3 billion, on its business combination with a Nasdaq listed SPAC.
Advised a large, multinational pharmaceutical company as key shareholder of a British biotechnology company, on the Cayman Islands aspects of a pre-merger restructuring necessary to implement a business combination with a Nasdaq listed SPAC. The combined company subsequently successfully listed on Nasdaq in March 2023.
Advised a number of logistics and manufacturing companies based in Asia on all Cayman Islands legal aspects of their respective initial public offerings on Nasdaq, including pre-offering corporate and capital restructures.
Advised a number of SPACs on their successful listings on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange.
Advised one of New Zealand’s largest listed companies on its NZ$750 million accelerated renounceable entitlement offer. At the time, this transaction was the largest secondary capital raise ever undertaken in New Zealand and was a finalist for Capital Markets Deal of the Year at the 2019 New Zealand Law Awards.