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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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Martin Paul

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Funds and private equity group.

Position

Partner and head of the investment funds and private equity group. Wide-ranging experience in structuring offshore funds, investment syndicates and joint ventures in the real estate, private equity and other investment sectors. Particular expertise in regulatory and compliance matters.

Career

Trained Laytons Solicitors, England 1994-96; qualified 1996; Crills, Jersey 1996-99; admitted as an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey 1999; Bedell Cristin 1999; partner 2003 to date. Regular speaker at conferences and seminars. Contributor to the Jersey chapter in ‘International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice’ (2nd edition, Butterworths), and to other legal journals and industry publications. Member of industry steering groups concerned with investment fund matters.

Member

Law Society of Jersey.

Education

University of York (1991 BA Hons Economics (2(1)); 1993 CPE; 1994 LPC).

Practice Areas

Corporate and commercial; Financial services; Investment funds

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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.

- Bedell Cristin

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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

Jersey James Mulholland, Robert Milner and Daniel O’Connor - Carey Olsen

- 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.

- Ogier
Establishing and Operating a Cayman Investment Fund

A. INVESTMENT FUNDS 1. Documents 1.1 Generally, the documents involved in the establishment of an investment fund in the Cayman Islands include the following:

- Ogier