Ms Kim Paiva > Walkers > St Peter Port, Guernsey > Lawyer Profile
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12-14 NEW STREET
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GY1 2PF
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Ms Kim Paiva
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Kim Paiva is a Group Partner in Walker’s top-tier Guernsey Banking & Finance team – she has 15 years’ experience in private practice in onshore and offshore roles, and leads the Guernsey acquisition finance and general secured lending team.
Kim has a broad range of expertise encompassing Banking & Finance and Corporate law matters, and specialises in acquisition and asset financing deals, advising borrowers and lenders predominantly in London and within the Channel Islands on matters of Guernsey law.
She is part of the market-leading Walkers Global Aviation Group, and advises both owners and financiers in relation to transactions involving aircraft registered or to be registered on 2-REG (Guernsey’s Aircraft Registry).
Kim has ten years’ experience advising on Guernsey law, and also advises on leveraged finance, and in acquisitions of regulated trust and company services providers.
Having spent five years practising in South Africa’s largest law firm, Kim also works with clients from South Africa on funds and private capital matters, advising clients in respect of asset protection and succession planning structures.
Career
Prior to relocating to Guernsey at the beginning of 2009, Kim practised as a corporate and commercial attorney at one of South Africa’s largest law firms, Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, where she worked in the Corporate and M&A teams.
On arriving in Guernsey at the start of 2009, she practised in the Business and Trust Law team at another leading offshore firm, before joining Walkers in September 2010. She became a Group Partner in October 2020.
Lawyer Rankings
Guernsey > Banking and finance
(Next Generation Partners)Walkers‘ cross-Channel Island banking and finance practice offers support to lenders and borrowers involved in real estate and asset financing, with a wealth of experience advising on transactions concerning aircraft. Fund financing is a further area of expertise, with practice co-head Zoë Hallam advising lenders on NAV and hybrid facilities. Hallam’s counterpart Kim Paiva is noted for her real estate, acquisition and asset financing practice. Senior counsel Alex Wickens advises on real estate deals, with special expertise in deals which require Islamic finance structures. The arrivals of associates Tiny Musesengwa, from a trust company, and Kgotso Matjila, from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, in April and August 2022, respectively, has further added to the team’s strengths.