Finance

Our practice comprises a team of highly experienced lawyers, advising on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Through our global network of offices including real-time capability in the prominent financial markets of London, Hong Kong and Singapore we advise the world’s leading corporations, banks and financial institutions.

Through our global reach we provide lenders and borrowers with high-quality, responsive and thorough legal advice on a wide variety of secured and unsecured financial transactions including:

• Asset finance
• Debt finance
• Fund finance
• Structured finance and securitization
• Derivatives and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs)
• Corporate finance and securities
• Acquisition finance
• Property finance
• Project finance
• Distressed debt
• Islamic finance

The breadth of our expertise extends to:

• Advising on lending, asset finance, venture capital finance and security packages including charges, debentures and more complex security arrangements involving entities domiciled in our jurisdictions
• Advising on regulatory issues and general corporate matters arising in the day to day operations of banks and financial institutions
• Reviewing terms/conditions of standard facility and security documentation
• Trade finance
• Advising clients on litigation issues arising in domestic and cross-border situations
• Advising on restructuring and security enforcement matters including all aspects of reorganisations, liquidations and receiverships
• Advising on conflicts of law questions arising in the context of cross-border financings and enforcement matters
• Issuing legal opinions in relation to all types of finance transactions