Anthony McKenzie

Corporate, Banking & Finance, Investment Funds

Anthony is the managing partner of our Singapore office and the head of our corporate practice in Asia. He is also a founding partner of Carey Olsen's Asia offices and a non-resident partner of the Hong Kong office.

Anthony is a specialist in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Bermuda law and is one of only two partners in Singapore admitted to practise these three key offshore laws. He is also the only Cayman Islands and BVI admitted and Bermuda registered transactional partner in Singapore.

Anthony has a broad range of experience in offshore corporate, investment funds and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, secured and unsecured financing arrangements, preference share issues, IPOs and capital markets transactions.

He regularly advises financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers on leveraged and acquisition finance, syndicated lending, structured finance, fund finance and secured and unsecured general corporate lending. He also has significant experience in advising clients on the structuring, formation and maintenance of regulated and unregulated investment funds in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands.

Other than being regarded a Leading Individual by The Legal 500, Anthony is ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by each of IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific. He has also been consistently identified by China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) in its prestigious A-List as an elite lawyer with a China practice since 2020. In particular, he is the only offshore lawyer based in Singapore distinguished on the 2022 CBLJ A-list. Other than CBLJ, Anthony is also recognised in the Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022 by Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) as part of the publication's prestigious annual A-List series. In 2019, he was also recognised by Asian Legal Business in its Offshore Client Choice List for client service in Asia.

Clients describe Anthony as "a clear market leader in the offshore space. Top notch service, deep commercial understanding, striking a great balance between legal precision and commercial wisdom." He is also noted for being "extremely approachable with a can-do attitude to providing the advice needed to get transactions over the line."