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Michael Gagie
Work Department
Corporate
Finance
Position
Michael is Regional Managing Partner of Maples and Calder’s Asia offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. He is also Global Head of the firm’s British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) practice. His experience and areas of practice cover both BVI and Cayman Islands law and include a broad range of banking and structured finance work acting as lender counsel for international and regional banks and borrower work for funds and corporates. In addition, Michael has significant corporate law experience (both public and private work) and regularly advises corporates and private equity funds on joint ventures, pre-IPO structures and downstream private equity acquisitions and disposals.
Career
Michael joined the Maples Group in 2010. He was previously head of the Hong Kong office of an offshore law firm, having relocated to Asia from the British Virgin Islands in 2006. Prior to this, Michael worked for Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Simmons & Simmons in London. Michael also completed secondments at the London Stock Exchange, and as in-house counsel with Shell International Limited. Michael is consistently ranked as a leader in his field in Chambers Global, IFLR1000 and Who’s Who Legal. He is currently ranked as Eminent Practitioner by Chambers Asia Pacific and singled out in the new Offshore category for Singapore by Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Languages
English
Education
Law Society Legal Practice Course, 1995
College of Law, Guildford (CPE), UK, 1994
University College of North Wales, UK, (BA Hons), 199
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Offshore
(Leading Individuals)Working collaboratively with team’s in the BVI, the Cayman Islands, London, Dubai and Dublin, Maples Group has a long-established reputation for servicing multinational clients on their investments in Asia, as well as Asia-based clients on their overseas investments. Providing the full spectrum of legal services, the practice is particularly well noted for its expertise advising on corporate, finance, insolvency, funds and investments, and dispute resolution issues. Michael Gagie is a leading figure and heads the BVI law practice, specialising in downstream PE, corporate, commercial, and banking and structured finance work. Head of the Asia corporate offering, Matt Roberts focuses on advising financial institutions, asset managers, and publicly listed and private companies. Nick Harrold is particularly adept regarding Japanese-related investments, while Iain Anderson caters to a broad range of PE and hedge funds, boutique managers, smaller start-up funds and investee companies.