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  7. Investment funds and capital markets
  8. Private client and trusts

Banking and finance

Commercial

Commercial property

Dispute resolution

Employment

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    • Caren Hyde - Appleby

Insurance and pensions

Investment funds and capital markets

Appleby advised INB Bank on the Isle of Man aspects of a £125m revolving credit facility to BCP Partners in relation to the purchase of the Phones 4U Group from Providence. Faye Moffett is the local team head for banking and asset finance, and Islamic and structured finance. Simon Cain deals mainly with corporate and asset finance matters, and is particularly noted for shipping finance.

Cains acts on the establishment and licensing of banks in the Isle of Man, cross-jurisdictional and domestic restructurings, insolvencies of financial institutions and corporate debtors, acquisition, project and asset finance transactions, and syndicated loans and other domestic and international financing transactions. Andrew Baker and Tim Shepherd are the principal contacts.

Dougherty Quinn provides a ‘prompt service with hands-on partner involvement’. The firm is on the offshore legal panel of several major banks, and regularly acts for syndicates of banks. It also undertakes a significant amount of shipping finance work. Mark Dougherty is ‘extremely approachable and willing to go the extra mile to provide the level of service required’. Tom Maher is ‘a commercially tuned lawyer who gives real-world advice’.

Simcocksprovides highly efficient and competent advice’. The team acted in connection with Project Earl, which involved the restructuring of multiple financings. The team also worked on two superyacht financing and security transactions for Bank of America. David Spencer is highly regarded.

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