Walkers' capital markets team excels at handling work at a local and global level, with experience in issuances, listings and de-listings. 'Standout individual' Craig Cordle leads the practice and has expertise across exchanges throughout Europe. Matt Sanders also contributes to the practice and advises on work relating to listed investment funds and companies.
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Investment Funds & Corporate
Position
Craig Cordle is a Partner in Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds & Corporate Practice Group specialising in all aspects of the structuring, restructuring, merger, sale, establishment and operation of listed and private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, single asset vehicles/SPACs and other collective investment arrangements.
In addition, Craig advises on the merger and acquisition of private and listed companies, schemes of arrangement and regulatory and competition issues.
Craig is an asset management lawyer with 14 years' experience in private practice, most of which was spent in the asset management, funds and capital markets teams of two leading international law firms in the City of London.
Since moving to Guernsey in 2016, and re-qualifying as a Guernsey Advocate, he continues to work with a number of vehicles listed on exchanges in London and across Europe, including The International Stock Exchange (TISE).
He has been consistently recognised for the quality of his advice by Chambers UK, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000.
Admitted in:
Guernsey – 2018
England & Wales - 2008
Career
Craig has worked in Guernsey since 2016, and has been admitted as a Guernsey Advocate since 2018.
Before moving offshore, he spent 11 years working in the City of London as an investment funds lawyer with Herbert Smith Freehills and Norton Rose Fulbright.
Craig joined Walkers' Guernsey team in 2022.
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- 'They are proactive and have deep knowledge of the London capital markets.' 'Craig Cordle is a standout individual. He is very knowledgeable of the London market, having worked there for many years. He is uniquely placed among his peers when advising on capital markets transactions and and knows the sector inside out.'
Key clients
- The International Stock Exchange Group Limited Equitix Tetragon Financial Group Limited Chrysalis Investments Limited The Flight and Partners Recovery Fund Limited Strawberry Star Real Estate PCC Limited NB Global Monthly Income Fund Limited (in liquidation) Global Mena Financial Assets Limited GoldenTree Asset Management LP
Work highlights
Advised LSE-listed Custodian Property Income REIT on its proposed all-share recommended merger with LSE-listed abrdn Property Income Trust Limited (API), whereby Custodian Property Income REIT would acquire the entire issued share capital of API by means of a Court-sanctioned Guernsey scheme of arrangement.