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Carey Olsen LLP
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LONDON
EC2V 8AS
England
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Jasmine Amaria

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+44 (0)20 7614 5628 jasmine.amaria@careyolsen.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Corporate; Investment Funds; Banking and Finance; Listing Services; Family Office; Taxation and Economic Substance Requirements

Position

Jasmine is a partner in Carey Olsen’s corporate practice, based in London.

Jasmine advises on both BVI and Cayman Islands corporate law and has significant experience in investment funds and corporate and finance matters, including fund formation, fund financing, general corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements as well as group reorganisations and restructurings. She also advises investment and private equity funds on distressed situations.

Jasmine regularly advises Indian companies and clients, as well as those looking to make foreign investments into India.

Career

Jasmine trained and qualified at Slaughter and May, where she spent 9 years, prior to working for another offshore law firm.

Whilst at Slaughter and May, she advised investment banks and corporate clients in relation to capital markets and structured finance transactions, securitisations, IPOs, investment fund, private equity and banking structures as well as providing general commercial and corporate advice to clients.

In her last role, Jasmine focused on both alternative investment funds and private equity funds, and regularly advised on their establishment, on-going corporate transactions and financing activities. She has also advised clients on their fund restructurings and distressed situations.

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London > Offshore firms in London > Offshore firms in London

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Jasmine Amaria – 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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Jasmine Amaria – 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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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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