Walkers

Investment Funds & Corporate

Dilmun Leach is a Partner in Walkers' Jersey Investment Funds & Corporate practice group and is head of Walkers' Jersey Fintech team, advising on a range of funds, corporate and regulatory matters.

Dilmun is a renowned Jersey lawyer with a broad practice spanning Corporate, Funds, and Fintech matters. Dilmun was elected Vice Chair of the Jersey Funds Association (JFA) for a three-year term in July 2025; and is Co-Chair and a founding member of the Jersey Digital Assets Working Group formed in 2017.

In respect of Fintech, Dilmun advised Backed Finance on the launch of Jersey's first tokenisation platform which launched in 2024. Dilmun worked closely with the Jersey Financial Services Commission in the drafting and publication of the Jersey Tokenisation Guidance Notes in August 2024, and has advised several clients on launching Jersey tokenised products. Dilmun has advised on a broad range of digital asset matters since 2016, and was involved in the drafting of the Jersey ICO Guidance Notes published in 2017.

Having been elected to the JFA Committee in 2017 and been advising on investment funds matters since 2012, Dilmun was deeply involved in the design of the successful Jersey Private Fund product. Dilmun has supported many traditional fund-raises and also innovative fund and fund-like structures including using nominee/trustee structures, cell companies, deal-by-deal and single asset funds, collateralised fund interests, and continuation funds.

Dilmun’s corporate practice includes private equity transactions, and mergers and acquisitions including regulated trust and corporate services providers. Dilmun advised on the first listing of a Jersey company's shares on NASDAQ using uncertificated shares and the direct registration system, and also the first de-SPAC transaction involving a Jersey company listing on NYSE.

Dilmun is an active member of the Jersey finance industry, and has spoken on funds, corporate and fintech matters at events in Jersey, London, New York, Miami, and Switzerland.

Dilmun qualified in 2009 with Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills) and spent five years in their London office, including a six-month secondment to Bell Gully in Wellington, New Zealand. He moved to an offshore firm in Jersey in 2012. He became a group partner and head of the Jersey funds team at an offshore firm in 2017, where he spent three years growing and building the corporate and investment funds practice group from the ground up.

He joined Walkers as a Group Partner in November 2020.

Dilmun is a member of the Law Society of England & Wales.

Dilmun is an elected committee member of the Jersey Funds Association, and a member of the marketing sub-committee. In these roles he is at the forefront of the development of the Jersey funds industry, and is actively involved in the development of new laws and products including in relation to limited partnerships, Jersey Private Funds, LLCs and ESG.

Dilmun is a founding member of the Jersey Digital Assets Working Group.

Education:

BA Hons 1st Class, History, University of Leeds Postgraduate diploma in Law, Commendation, Nottingham Law School Postgraduate diploma in Legal Practice, Distinction, BPP Law School, Holborn, London