Offshore Britain - Isle Of Man
Appleby
Appleby advises on the full range of banking and finance matters with a particular focus on debt finance, bond issuances and capital market transactions, while also featuring considerable expertise in regard to corporate restructuring and reorganisations. The team is led by Kyle Sutherland, a corporate specialist who handles a variety of matters, including joint ventures, restructuring and asset finance. Tom Brook has experience in both offshore and onshore banking and finance, particularly concerning real estate and acquisition finance. Recently-promoted counsel Eleanor Harding specialises in asset finance in the property aircraft and shipping sectors. Sophia Howell-Evans is experienced in corporate finance and Sophie Corkish is particularly experienced in ship finance. Practice head Faye Moffett retired in 2022.
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‘Appleby are very responsive and work incredibly hard to meet tight deadlines.’
‘Sophie Corkish and Tom Brook are a delight to work with. They're very personable, responsive and above all take complete ownership of (and remove any stress associated with) the IOM side of a transaction.’
Key clients
- Barclays
- BNP Paribas
- Citibank
- HSBC
- Investec
- Lloyds
- Santander
- The Royal Bank of Scotland
- The Standard Bank of South Africa
- The Blackstone Group International
- NEPI Rockcastle Plc
Work highlights
- Advised the client in relation to a complex lending arrangement to the Clearbell Group. The deal involved six Isle of Man companies, an Isle of Man limited partnership and an Isle of Man unit trust arrangement.
- Acted for the syndicate of international financial institutions (being BNP Paribas, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING Capital LLC, ING Bank N.V., Natixis, New York Branch, Société Générale and SEK, Swedish Export Credit Corporation) (together the “Senior Lenders”) on the Isle of man aspects of the financing.
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Kyle Sutherland advises on both the laws of the BVI and Isle of Man, and specialises in a broad range of offshore corporate law in those jurisdictions, ranging from joint venture work, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, real estate finance transactions, private placement and listing work. Kyle has been qualified for over 20 years with both onshore and offshore experience. Prior to re-joining Appleby in 2010, Kyle spent several years working in the corporate department of a leading British Virgin Islands law firm, where he was involved in a wide spectrum of cross-border transactions, and was lead lawyer on a number of high-profile deals. Kyle now heads up Appleby’s BVI (GMT) team, servicing clients with BVI legal advice in a European friendly time zone.
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Tom Brook is Partner within the Corporate department and specialises in advising clients on a wide range of debt finance, equity finance, M&A, and restructuring transactions. Tom spent seven years in the banking and finance teams of two UK based international law firms before moving offshore and joining Appleby in 2011. Tom has experience of advising on domestic and cross-border debt finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and corporate governance issues. His clients include onshore law firms, international financial institutions, listed and private companies and high net worth individuals.
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Kyle Sutherland