Walkers

Corporate and Finance

Jack is the Managing Partner of our London office and practises British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Bermuda law.

Jack enjoys 25+ years' experience advising clients on matters linked to offshore investment hubs and originally practised from the firm's Cayman Islands and BVI offices. Jack leads a team of London based lawyers providing time-zone sensitive, dedicated Bermuda, BVI and Cayman Islands law support to clients based in EMEA.

Jack has the unique distinction of being the sole person in Europe to be ranked as a Tier 1 BVI lawyer and a Tier 1 Cayman Islands lawyer by Chambers and Partners. Jack is equally ranked as a Leading Individual by Legal 500. Legal 500 cites that Jack is widely acclaimed as one of the Cayman Island's top practitioners.

Jack specialises in:

• Banking and finance transactions (including leveraged finance, real estate finance, and debt and equity finance)
• Corporate M&A transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures, take-private transactions, equity capital markets and corporate reorganisations)

Jack initially practised with a New Zealand law firm undertaking a wide range of corporate and finance work. He then joined a major French investment bank in London primarily working on structured finance and commodity derivative based transactions. Thereafter Jack joined the Structured and Asset Finance team at Norton Rose in London where he worked for four years specialising in structured and asset financings and on a number of infrastructure projects (including several prominent PPP and PFI projects) before joining Walkers.​

First in Law, Victoria University of Wellington | ADMITTED IN: England and Wales (not practising); New Zealand (not practising).