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Sheba Raza

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Work Department

Corporate, Banking and Finance

Position

Sheba Raza is counsel in Carey Olsen’s global corporate and finance practice, based in London. She practises Bermuda and BVI law.

Sheba has a diverse practice acting for a range of global financial institutions, public/private companies across the energy, insurance, real estate and financial services sectors as well as high net worth individuals. She advises clients on a wide variety of Bermuda and BVI corporate, finance and restructuring transactions.

Sheba specialises in finance matters with expertise in asset finance, capital markets, derivatives, general corporate lending, insurance finance, real estate finance and structured finance. She also has experience in segregated account company structures, cross-border acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and equity investment transactions.

Since 2015, she has been a director and member of the Management Committee of The Bermuda Society (a non-profit platform to promote and strengthen business and cultural links between Bermuda, the City of London and other international finance centres) organising and hosting a number of Bermuda related seminars and workshops.

Sheba has been consistently recognised each year since 2013 for her offshore expertise by Legal 500 and since 2014 by both the Global and UK versions of Chambers & Partners being praised most recently by Chambers Global for her ‘tremendous experience’ and as someone who helps to ‘look for solutions rather than simply identifying problems’. She is also the only London based individual ranked in the ‘Foreign expertise based abroad’ section of the Bermuda rankings.

Career

Prior to joining Carey Olsen in June 2020, Sheba was counsel at another offshore law firm based in London where she practised Bermuda and British Virgin Islands law. Prior to moving her legal focus offshore, she spent seven years practising English law in the City of London with the corporate and banking teams of CMS Nabarro Olswang LLP, White & Case LLP (including completing banking secondments at both Barclays Capital and BNP Paribas SA) and Milbank LLP.

Sheba was admitted as an English solicitor in 1999, as a registered associate to the Bermuda Bar in 2007 and to the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) in 2012.

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London > Offshore firms in London > Offshore firms in London

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Sheba Raza – Carey Olsen LLP

Noted as the largest offshore firm specialising exclusively in Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey matters from London, Carey Olsen LLP has recently seen a marked increase in instructions on high-profile global restructuring transactions, M&A deals and litigation matters relating to the BVI and Cayman Islands, as well as instructions on novel Guernsey fund structures. Jasmine Amaria is now registered to practice Bermuda law in London, adding additional expertise to the firm’s evolving Bermuda corporate practice; she primarily works on corporate, banking and regulatory matters, particularly on behalf of start-up companies. With a career in international disutes spanning 20 years, Richard Brown focuses on cross-border fraud cases, insolvencies, shareholder disputes and contentious trusts. Matthew Brehaut has particular experience in the structuring and launch of investment funds. Senior associate Nina Clift and counsel Sheba Raza are also recommended.

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(Rising stars)

Sheba Raza – Carey Olsen LLP

Overview

Leveraging the expertise throughout its UK and Asia offices, Carey Olsen’s ‘incredibly responsive and effective’ global Caribbean-focused practice draws on ‘deep reservoirs of expertise and experience’ to field ‘the A-Team of all offshore practices operating today’. The firm’s team is spread across its London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices, covering Bermuda, BVI and Cayman law with particular experience in corporate, finance, funds and insolvency work, and litigation.

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  • Asia
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Acting for ‘a stellar array of clients drawn from across the Asia Pacific region and beyond, which underscores the firm’s status as the best of the best’, Carey Olsen Hong Kong LLP utilises the expertise of managing partner Michael Padarin as a go-to name for fund issues, including the formation, operation and restructuring of funds, particularly those with Cayman law elements. Jeremy Lightfoot leads the litigation practice in Hong Kong and is praised as ‘an outstanding litigation lawyer and an impressive critical thinker’; the litigation team was further bolstered in mid-2023 with the recruitments of Tim Haynes and Matthew Watson, who focus on Cayman and Bermuda issues, respectively. In Carey Olsen Singapore LLP, managing partner Anthony McKenzie also leads the corporate practice, while James Noble, who is praised as ‘quite simply the best of the best’, heads up the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice. Tom Katsaros is the primary contact in the jurisdiction for investment fund work, and litigator Helen Wang is singled out as ‘very experienced with great cross-jurisdictional knowledge and analysis’.
Key names in Carey Olsen LLP’s London office include managing partner Jasmine Amaria, who focuses on corporate, fund and finance work with a Cayman or BVI aspect, acting for clients in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Richard Brown is singled out by clients as ‘superb as a lawyer, as a litigator and as a strategist’, and provides ‘a seamless service that is second to none’; he is the primary contact for dispute resolution advice and insolvency issues involving BVI law and was further admitted as a registered associate of the Bermuda Bar in 2023. Counsel Sheba Raza is also a key name to note and ‘always feels part of the team she is working with’.

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