As part of the firm’s substantial transactional offering, Harneys features a banking and finance team that is a go-to for lender side matters, acting for major financial institutions and prominent onshore law firms. Among the firm’s regular undertakings are offshore elements of cross-border lending and debt finance transactions, with the department assisting clients with varied types of financing and credit transactions. Tanya Cassie Parker is managing partner at the BVI office and draws on corporate finance expertise in co-leading the banking and finance arm alongside Michelle Frett-Mathavious, whose client base includes law firms, financial institutions, HNWIs, funds and corporates. George Weston, who heads the firm’s corporate offering across the Americas, is another experienced name to note for financing deals, and more junior key figures in the transactional team include Joshua Mangeot and Rhonda Brown.

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  • ‘Responsive, likeable and easy to work with.’

  • ‘We recommend George Weston.’

Key clients

  • Digicel International Finance Limited
  • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
  • Brightbay Real Estate Partners Limited (formerly RDI REIT Plc)
  • MBC Group
  • ACG Acquisition Company Limited
  • Bit Brother Limited
  • Adium

Work highlights

  • Acted for the Digicel Group in a consensual financial restructuring in connection with a Bermuda Scheme of Arrangement.
  • Acted as BVI counsel to the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, in its capacity as one of a syndicate of lenders and agent in connection with amendments to certain financing arrangements with the Ovolo Hotel Group.
  • Acted as BVI counsel to Brightbay Real Estate Partners Limited on its ongoing strategic plans for its business.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Tanya Cassie Parker, Michelle Frett-Mathavious

Other key lawyers

George Weston, Joshua Mangeot, Rhonda Brown