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Jasmine Amaria

Walkers, London

Work Department

Investment Funds

Position

Jasmine joined Walkers in 2007 and is a partner in the Global Investment Funds Group based in the London office. Her practice focuses on both alternative investment funds and private equity funds, and she regularly advises on their establishment, on-going corporate transactions and financing activities. Jasmine has also advised clients on their fund restructurings and distressed situations. Jasmine has significant experience in a broad range of corporate and finance transactions, and regularly advises on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and group reorganisations and restructurings. Her practice has also included advising on IPOs of Cayman Islands companies on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, and her clients include leading international banks, financial institutions, asset management firms and private equity houses. Jasmine is also part of the Walkers Global India Group which drives the firm’s strategy and dealings with Indian companies and clients and foreign investments into India. Jasmine has experience in both Cayman Islands law and BVI law aspects of transactions.​

Career

Jasmine trained and qualified at Slaughter and May, where she spent 9 years prior to joining Walkers. Whilst at Slaughter and May, she advised investment banks and corporate clients in relation to capital markets and structured finance transactions, securitisations, IPOs, investment fund and private equity structures, banking structures as well as providing general commercial and corporate advice to clients. Jasmine was seconded to Abbey National Treasury Services in 2004, where she advised the bank on finance transactions, including derivative products and bond and note issuances. She also spent a year on secondment in the Principal Finance department at UBS, where she advised on the legal aspects of principal investments made on behalf of the bank

Education

LLB (Hons), London School of Economics and Political Science | ADMITTED IN: England and Wales (not practising).