Bio

Melissa Lim is based in Walkers' Cayman Islands office where she is a partner in the Global Investment Funds Group. She has extensive experience in a broad range of investment fund structures including private equity funds, hedge funds, technology and venture capital funds, cryptocurrency funds and unit trusts. Melissa regularly acts for leading investment banks, investment managers, private equity houses and corporate trustees, advising on the structuring and formation of funds, their downstream transactions and exit mechanisms. An integral part of her practice involves advising in relation to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, preference share issues, corporate restructurings and other corporate transactions and FinTech transactions including blockchain projects and digital assets. She also has significant expertise in advising on finance transactions (in particular, capital commitment subscription financing and LBO financing) and related issues of security creation and perfection.