Offshore Britain - Guernsey

Carey Olsen

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Lenders and borrowers come to Carey Olsen for assistance with a range of financing arrangements for Guernsey-domiciled funds, including acquisition, real estate and asset finance. The firm also offers extensive experience in advising companies on TISE listings. The practice is headed by Andrew Boyce, a closed and open-ended investment funds structuring specialist who also assists with credit and structured finance products. Funds group head Ben Morgan is well versed in alternative fund formation, as is Annette Alexander, who also advises funds on TISE listings and related compliance matters. Tom Carey focuses his practice on corporate transactions and is also noted for his listings work and knowledge of permanent capital vehicles issues. David Crosland rounds out the roster of key names.

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  • 'Knowledge of the legal market and framework, proactive, highly responsive and engaging.'

  • 'It is the top team in Guernsey in terms of experience and depth. Likely to remain so due to really exceptional response times. Our broader group deal with law firms around the world and is always complimentary about Carey Olsen.'

  • 'We work with Annette Alexander's team almost exclusively and would prefer not to deal with anyone else. Annette is super responsive, which makes all the difference.'

Key clients

  • Ninety One Securitisation S.A
  • AnaCap Financial Partners
  • AI Verventa Topco (Guernsey) Limited
  • Permira European CLO Manager LLP

Work highlights

  • Assisted Anacap with an English law-governed facility agreement to be provided to one of its portfolio investments, Nestor Holding, by JPMorgan, with several Guernsey entities acting as guarantors.
  • Advised Ninety One Securitisation on the admission to listing of up to €400m unsecured revolving profit participating notes due 2036 on the Official List of The International Stock Exchange.
  • Assisted Providus CLO VII Designated Activity Company with the closing of the Providus VII, whereby the client issued the CLO notes in a collateralised loan obligation transaction managed by Permira European CLO Manager and arranged by Barclays Bank.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andrew Boyce

Other key lawyers

Ben Morgan, Annette Alexander, Tom Carey, David Crosland