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OGIER HOUSE, THE ESPLANADE, ST HELIER, JE4 9WG, JERSEY

Tel:: Work 01534 504000
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Daniel Richards

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Business and trust law.

Position

Daniel Richards is a partner in the Ogier group, practising in Jersey. An English solicitor and an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey, Daniel’s practice encompasses investment funds (both listed and non-listed), corporate, finance and restructuring. Daniel is a Jersey Financial Services Commission-approved director of various investment funds and financing vehicles. 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

Trained Lovells, London; qualified England & Wales 1999; specialised in multi-jurisdictional business restructuring and insolvency; moved to Jersey, specialising in corporate and finance 2002; qualified Jersey 2005; joined Ogier 2005, specialising in investment funds; managing associate 2006; partner 2007. Key clients and transactions include the acquisition of the `Shard of Glass’ development in London, investment fund and corporate finance work for BAML, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, MezzVest, Capvest, Real Estate Opportunities Plc, Challenger Financial Services Group, China Real Estate Opportunities Limited, Liquid Realty Partners, Arminus Real Estate Opportunity funds and various pooled investment vehicles for Electra Partners LLP. Daniel has published various articles and regularly presents to conferences and clients in relation to investment funds, corporate and restructuring matters and real estate investment structures.

Languages

English, French.

Member

Law Society of Jersey; Law Society of England & Wales; Institute of Directors.

Education

Cowbridge School, Vale of Glamorgan; Clare College, Cambridge University (BA Hons law 2(1)); College of Law (LPD commendation).

Practice Areas

Corporate finance; Finance - property; Investment funds

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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

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