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Bedell Cristin

PO BOX 75, 26 NEW STREET, ST HELIER, JE2 3RA, JERSEY

Tel:: Work 01534 814814
Fax:: Fax 01534 814815

Web:: www.bedellgroup.com
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Richard Gerwat

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Capital markets and structured finance group.

Position

Managing partner of Bedell Group and head of structured finance and capital markets group; particular emphasis on securitisation and use of special purpose vehicles for financing purposes; advises many US and European arrangers on securitisation, corporate finance, banking and related matters.

Career

Articled Coward Chance and assistant lawyer Clifford Chance; admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales 1988; admitted as an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey 1992; partner Bedell Cristin 1994; director of Bedell Trust Company Limited, the wholly owned fiduciary services company of Bedell Group; director of Bedell SPV Management (Jersey) Limited; regular contributor to structured finance journals.

Member

Law Society of England and Wales; Law Society of Jersey; Law Society of Jersey Financial and Commercial Law Sub-Committee; Jersey Finance Industry Capital Markets Working Group.

Education

Victoria College, Jersey; Victoria University, Wellington; University of Buckingham (1985 LLB Hons).

Practice Areas

Banking (non-contentious); International capital markets; Securitisation

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The Precarious Business of Providing a Reference

Providing a reference for a departing or former employee can be a tricky task. Any negligent or deliberate errors could lead to compensation pay-outs and it is therefore crucial to strike the right balance.

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The New Security Interests (Jersey) Law 201- (the "New SIL") (yet to come into force)

An executive summary - January 2012

- Carey Olsen
Planning Law: The Court can remit matters back to the Minister on appeal

Summary The Royal Court has just handed down a judgment in a case involving an appeal against a decision of the Minister (then Senator Cohen) to refuse planning permission which is significant in two respects.

- Carey Olsen
MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL GUIDE 2012 INVESTMENT FUNDS

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- Carey Olsen
Jersey opens doors to Private Placement Funds

The Jersey Financial Services Commission has adopted a new policy setting out a fast track, self-certification procedure for authorising a "Private Placement Fund", being a fund: • which is either established in Jersey or managed in Jersey • which is closed ended • whose units are offered to not more than fifty investors • which only admits "sophisticated investors" or professional investors" (see appendix)

- Carey Olsen
Jersey Private Placement Funds

From January 2012 a new streamlined regulatory authorisation process for the establishment of privately placed funds is available in Jersey.

- Mourant Ozannes
Treasury services for local Jersey property developer clients

Enhancing client cash deposits

- Ogier
Directors' concerns: Distributions and dividends

Distributions and dividends

- Mourant Ozannes
The Precarious Business of Providing a Reference

Providing a reference for a departing or former employee can be a tricky task. Any negligent or deliberate errors could lead to compensation pay-outs and it is therefore crucial to strike the right balance.

- Bedell Cristin
To Earmark Or Not To Earmark

This briefing sets out some of the concerns that clients are sharing in relation to earmarking trust assets for share plan management and a practical solution to this problem.

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Establishing and Operating a Cayman Investment Fund

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