Ogier’s banking and finance team is known for its dedicated corporate and finance offering, with particular strength in equity capital markets, advising on IPOs, PIPEs, and private placements. The firm is also a key port of call for financial institutions, private equity sponsors, and funds on a wide range of fund financing products and structured finance transactions. James Heinicke leads the team and is noted for his expertise in subscription, NAV, and fund-of-fund facilities, while Mark Santangeli focuses on fund and structured finance. Angus Davison handles a broad transactional practice for key institutional clients.
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Partner
Career
Angus has a broad corporate finance practice, advising many of our investment funds and other clients on financing transactions, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), regulatory obligations and non-contentious restructuring.
He has a particular focus on providing regulatory and other advice to international banks and other financial institutions with Cayman Islands branches or subsidiaries, as well as advising clients on debt issues, facility arrangements, Islamic Finance structures and Eurobond and Specialist Dent Listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.
Angus is involved in a wide range of international corporate M&A, capital markets, joint venture, restructuring and commercial transactions. Recent transactions include advice on mergers, reverse takeovers and other significant transactions for listed Cayman Islands companies, trust certificate issuance programmes and acquisitions of Cayman Islands companies.
He acts for a number pf the firm's largest investment funds clients in relation to new fund formation, on-going regulatory and corporate advice, and management of liquidity issues.
Angus joined Ogier in 2005 and became a partner in 2010. Prior to joining Ogier, he worked for a number of years as a solicitor with Minter Ellison and PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal in Sydney, Australia.
Admitted in:
2005 - Cayman Islands
2001 - New South Wales, Australia (non practising)
Languages
English
Memberships
Angus is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society.
Education
He recieved his Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws, with Honours, from the Australian National University in 2000 and his Master of Laws from the University of Sydney in 2005.
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- ‘Sophisticated team, with expertise in complex cross-border transactions. They adapted to the particularities of the transaction and all the international parties involved.’
‘James Heinicke and Thomas Sims were instrumental in the cross-border restructuring transaction I interacted with them on.’
Key clients
- Brookfield Investment Management Banco BTG Pactual Waterfall Asset Management TPG Angelo Gordon Wen Acquisition Corp Berto Acquisition Corp
Work highlights
Advised the initial purchasers in relation to the $1.4 billion global bond offering of LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (LATAM).
Acted for a syndicate of lenders on a US$800 million loan facility.
Advised its long-standing client Banco BTG Pactual on its US$500 million notes issuance.