The Legal 500

Work Department

Business and trust law.

Position

Simon Dinning is the managing partner of the London office, which offers both BVI and Cayman advice. He specialises in providing corporate advice on equity capital market transactions, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and strategic alliances. Simon also specialises in structuring investment funds. 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

Simon began his career in the corporate division at Herbert Smith, where he worked from 1996-2001. In 2001 he left Herbert Smith, having been asked to set up the London corporate division of Washington DC-based firm Shaw Pittman LLP, before moving to DLA Piper’s corporate team in 2003. Before joining Ogier, Simon worked for Harney, Westwood and Riegels from 2005-07 in the BVI and, latterly, in the London office. He is admitted in the British Virgin Islands (2005) and England & Wales (1998 non-practising). He became a partner at Ogier in 2008.Publications include: articles in ‘The Lawyer’, ‘Legal Week’, ‘Financier Worldwide’, ‘European CEO’ and ‘Offshore Investment and Global Financial Policy Review’.

Member

Law Society of England and Wales.

Education

Warwick University (1991-94 BA Hons, politics); College of Law, London (1994-96 CPE; LPC).

Practice Areas

Corporate and commercial; Investment funds; M&A