Wyvern
Partners, the Mayfair based corporate finance firm, has
established a presence in the Channel Islands for the first time
through the appointment of Iain Stokes as a special adviser to the
group.
Mr Stokes joins Wyvern to provide additional expertise in the
fund administration area where he has worked for many years. In his
early career he worked in audit and advisory for BDO in
Guernsey where he qualified as an accountant and subsequently
spent seven years with Guernsey International Fund Managers (GIFM),
part of Barings, before joining Mourant International
Finance Administration (MIFA) in 2003 as head of its Guernsey
office.
In 2008 he became Group Managing Director with responsibility
for MIFA's expanding office network covering North America,
Europe and Asia and was a member of the senior team that managed
the sale of MIFA to State Street Corporation (which completed in
April 2010). Mr Stokes left State Street in June 2012 to pursue a
career as a
