James Gaudin > Appleby > St Helier, Jersey > Lawyer Profile
Appleby Offices
13-14 ESPLANADE
ST HELIER
JE1 1BD
Jersey
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James Gaudin
Work Department
Corporate (banking and financial services, structured finance, real estate).
Position
James Gaudin is the Office Managing Partner in Jersey and a partner within Appleby’s Corporate department. He specialises in all areas of offshore corporate, finance and restructuring work within Appleby’s strong equity and capital markets practice.
His extensive experience covers banking and asset finance, real estate investment structures, public and private debt and equity issues, securitisations, repackagings and initial public offerings, as well as structures involving Jersey limited partnerships and unit trusts. More recently James has advised on some of the largest corporate restructurings to have occurred in the Jersey market. He also advises banks and other global financial institutions in relation to the Jersey elements of complex cross-border insolvencies. The majority of his time is spent on real estate finance and funds.
He has contributed to numerous publications, and regularly presents to conferences, seminars and clients. James also participates in numerous industry steering and consultation groups.
Some examples of work includes advising: Acting for Credit Suisse (Europe) Limited as Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners in relation to the offer of £266,500,000 8% Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2020 and £150,000,000 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2019 by Hastings Insurance Group; Acting for Credit Suisse (USA) LLC as Initial Purchaser in connection with the issue by Georgia Wordwide PLC of its €700,000,000 4.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2020, €850,000,000 4.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2023, US$600,000,000 5.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2020, US$1,500,000,000 6.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2022 and US$1,100,000,000 6.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2025; Acting for Deutsche Bank AG London as lead arranger in connection with the BVI, Jersey and Mauritian aspects of the US$600,000,000 bond issue by Severn Energy together with further participations by Vitol SA, Ashmopre Group and a syndicate of African banks headed by FBN Capital
Career
James became a partner at Appleby in 2011. Prior to joining Appleby in August 2010, he spent six years in the capital markets and structured finance team at a Jersey-based offshore firm, before joining another major offshore firm where he was a group partner and head of corporate in Jersey. Before returning to Jersey, James worked with Hemmington-Scott in London for four years, latterly as head of treasury and banking. James qualified as a barrister in 1996 and has been a Jersey advocate since 2005. He has not always been a lawyer and spent years as a broker and Investment banker with Hemington-Scott, Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro.
Education
University of Bristol.
Lawyer Rankings
Jersey > Banking and finance
Appleby
provides ‘commercial and concise advice’ across a spectrum of financing mandates, with particular expertise in real estate and fund financing, in addition to refinancing work. Heading up the team is James Gaudin, whose practice is focused primarily on asset and real estate financing and securitisations. Simon Felton, who arrived from Ogier in July 2023, acts for private equity and private credit clients on the acquisitions of infrastructure and financial services targets, which are also sectors Iain Millar is well versed in. Daniel Healy is sought after by lenders providing facilities for real estate and fund acquisitions.
Jersey > Capital markets
(Leading partners)Appleby is adept at both listings on TISE and the issuance of CLOs, advising clients from across the firm’s network on EU-compliant structures. Andrew Weaver
oversees the practice, with Jersey managing partner James Gaudin handling structured finance facilities. Paul Worsnop and Tom Vibert are the key contacts for all matters tied to CLOs, while also handling a wide range of structured finance transactions. Simon Felton joined the group from Ogier in June 2023, specialising in advising securities issuers with debt and equity transactions, with Christophe Kalinauckas focusing on bond listings on TISE.