The Legal 500

Work Department

Business trust law.

Position

Partner specialising in banking, corporate and commercial, structured finance, restructuring and insolvency. Based in Jersey, he practises both Jersey and British Virgin Islands law. His practice includes all aspects of corporate structuring and transactional work, including acquisitions and disposals, mergers, joint ventures, listing and public offerings, as well as banking and structured finance transactions, insolvency, security enforcement and restructuring. Nick heads Ogier’s Russian/CIS cross-jurisdictional practice group. He is also a director of Ogier Corporate Services (Jersey) Ltd, which provides administration services to corporate-owned offshore structures, and he sits on the board of a number of substantial investment holding and financing companies. The firm: Ogier offers legal and fiduciary services from BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey and London. Ogier has fiduciary services offices in Bahrain and Ireland, and a representative office in Tokyo. In 2010 Ogier established a Channel Islands practice at its Hong Kong office to offer Guernsey and Jersey legal services to clients in the Asian time zone, in addition to the BVI and Cayman services already on offer there.

Career

Nick joined Ogier’s Jersey practice in 2002 from Watson, Farley & Williams in London. He has been a partner at Ogier since 2006. Baileys, Shaw & Gillett 1994-97 (qualified England and Wales 1996); Sinclair Roche & Temperley 1997-99; Watson, Farley & Williams 1999-2002; advocate Jersey 2004; solicitor BVI 2008.

Member

Law Society of England and Wales; Jersey Law Society.

Education

Durham University (1991).

Practice Areas

Banking (non-contentious); Corporate and commercial; M&A