CASE STUDY

Structuring a Cayman Real Estate Development and Capital Raise

Cayman Islands and United Kingdom

Illustrative waterfront commercial buildings in a coastal setting
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Affiliation disclosure. This project was undertaken for an affiliated sponsor within the same group, not for an unrelated client.

Situation

An affiliated sponsor planned a nine villa luxury beachfront development in Grand Cayman, using prefabricated modular construction manufactured overseas. The scheme was to be funded through a Cayman exempted limited partnership raising capital from qualifying investors.

Challenge

Cross-border developments tend to fail on sequencing rather than design. Licensing, land acquisition, supplier contracts and investor documentation all depend on one another, and investor-facing figures built on informal estimates create disclosure risk.

Approach

We designed the fund structure and drafted the Private Placement Memorandum in institutional form. Alongside this, we built a master programme of 17 workstreams and 186 work packages, each with an owner and dependencies, gated by six sequential decision points. Regulatory licensing was identified as the true critical path, and the programme was ordered around it. We also flagged items that had to be verified before any investor document was issued, including foreign structural drawings not engineered to Cayman wind loading standards.

Outcome

A single controlled programme and investor documentation set, with unverified assumptions isolated before they could reach investors.

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