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Ogier

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

Tel:: Work 01534 504000
Fax:: Fax 01534 504444

Web:: www.ogier.com
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Tortola, St Peter Port, St Helier, London, Hong Kong, Grand Cayman

Christopher Byrne

Tel:: Work +44 1534 504264
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Work Department

Business and trust law.

Position

Partner and head of the banking and finance team. Chris specialises in banking, company, commercial insurance, trusts, structured finance and listing matters. He advises local and international banks and other financial institutions on all aspects of their business and has a substantial banking and structured finance practice. 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

Called England and Wales 1988; Allen & Overy 1988-94 (solicitor England and Wales 1992); Ogier 1994; advocate Jersey 1996; partner Ogier 1997.

Member

Middle Temple; Jersey Law Society; IBA.

Education

Blundell’s School, Devon; Leicester University (1987).

Practice Areas

Banking (non-contentious); Investment funds; Securitisation

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Treasury services for local Jersey property developer clients

Enhancing client cash deposits

- Ogier

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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