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Bedell Cristin

LA PLAIDERIE HOUSE, LA PLAIDERIE, ST PETER PORT, GY1 1WG, GUERNSEY

Tel:: Work 01481 812812
Fax:: Fax 01481 812813

Web:: www.bedellgroup.com
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Kate Ovenden

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Corporate/commercial, financial services, investment funds, banking and finance.

Position

Partner; Guernsey advocate. Kate advises on a broad variety of corporate, commercial, financial services and finance work, with particular expertise in all types of investment funds, both open and closed-ended.

Career

Trained Withers LLP; qualified as solicitor 1998; partner at Bedell Cristin 2009; qualified as Guernsey advocate 2010. Trainee/assistant solicitor Withers LLP, London 1996-2006; senior lawyer/partner Bedell Cristin, Guernsey 2006 to date. Also holds various directorships.

Languages

French.

Member

Women in Professions.

Education

Ladies’ College, Guernsey; Trinity College, Cambridge (1988 MA Hons, medical sciences); London Guildhall University (1994 CPE (Commendation); 1995 Legal Practice Diploma (Distinction)); University of Caen (2009 Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Francaises et Normandes Menton Bien).

Practice Areas

Corporate and commercial; Financial services; Investment funds

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Employment Update - March 2012

■ Jersey Employment Tribunal 2010 / 2011 Annual Rep ort published ■ Jersey government launches "Back to Work Programme"

- Bedell Cristin

Legal Developments in Guernsey

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Image rights laws to be introduced in Guernsey

“Image is everything” - Andre Agassi once famously declared in an advert for camera brand, Canon.

- Carey Olsen
Structured finance and securitisation transactions with a Guernsey element

Basics of a Guernsey company

- Carey Olsen
Guernsey cash box structures

Following a period of turmoil in the financial markets, issuers have been viewing cash box structures as an attractive financing tool to facilitate share and convertible bond issues and to allow access to alternative sources of funding.

- Carey Olsen
Islamic finance and the use of Guernsey Special Purpose Vehicles

As a politically stable and fiscally advantageous financial centre, Guernsey is a prime jurisdiction in which to incorporate a special purpose vehicle (“SPV”) as the issuer of sukuk or as part of any other Islamic finance transaction.

- Carey Olsen
Private Equity 2012 Fund Formation Guernsey Chapter

What legal form of vehicle is typically used for private equity funds formed in your jurisdiction?

- Carey Olsen
Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) Rule Change Update

Ogier Corporate Finance Limited (OCFL) is the market leader in providing listing agent services for the listing of securities on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX or the Exchange) having sponsored over 445 listings.

- Ogier
Channel Island Stock Exchange, LBG - Listing of Securities of Investment Funds

The Channel Islands Stock Exchange, LBG (the Exchange or CISX) commenced operations on 27 October 1998 and is intended to provide recognised facilities for the listing and trading of securities issued by companies and investment funds.

- Ogier
Focus on: Guernsey

With the arrival of the new year, Mena FM talks to several industry experts about Guernsey as a fund domicile and its growing relationship with the Mena region and the products based there.

- Mourant Ozannes
Social Media: Legal Sector Review

It has become extremely easy to take a public tumble over Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, Alasdair Davidson discusses - published in Contact Magazine February/March 2012.

- Bedell Cristin
Investment funds in Guernsey

The investment funds industry in Guernsey has achieved significant growth in recent years. Statistics show that as at 30 June 2011 there was £274.5 billion of assets under management in Guernsey.

- Ogier