Supporting Global Businesses in Jersey

Alexander Forbes Offshore worked with employers in Africa to provide streamlined, flexible employee savings plans.

APEX worked with with a European investment platform which offers a range of alternative investment opportunities to the professional investor market.

Aztec Group worked with a major global financial institution with an array of alternative investment funds domiciled in Jersey who decided to restructure its operations.

BDO worked with a banking client in the process of a digital transformation moving onto the MS365 platform for file storage, email and collaboration. The client was concerned that both their legal and compliance teams would not have the skills to be able to run regulatory monitoring or investigations effectively on the new platform and that MS365 might not support the capabilities they require.

Bedell Cristin worked with Atlantic Leaf Properties on a multi-million-pound acquisition, involving a Jersey company investing in UK real estate.

BKS Family Office worked with an Italian real estate investment management company. Working to specific set deadlines to deliver a multi-jurisdictional solution with several non-Jersey based managers.

Carey Olsen worked with an ad hoc committee of creditors involved in the restructuring of an international casual dining group where the creditors wanted to: (a) take control of the group as it exited from a restructuring plan implemented under Part 26A of the UK Companies Act 2006; (b) reduce the group’s overall indebtedness; and (c) provide a new working capital loan facility.

Equiom worked with a family office with two Jersey companies within the family structure to pick up business following a breakdown in the relationship between the overseas fiduciary and the client due to concerns around service levels.

Grant Thornton worked with a complex fund wind-up with assets valued at US$5 billion which was a contentious legal battle, coordinated in Jersey, for control of the assets, spread internationally.

HSBC worked with a global consortium of leading infrastructure investors and operators, sovereign wealth and pension funds to deliver large-scale, highly complex cross-border infrastructure bridge financing.

ICECAP worked with a Pan-African telecommunications and technology group with capabilities across 14 countries that has established itself as the leading digital infrastructure provider of Network, Cloud and Cyber Security solutions.

IQ-EQ worked with a “club” type investment arrangement for a Swiss multinational investment bank to provide an innovative corporate structure involving Jersey incorporated cell companies, delivering two distinct features for the client’s investment arrangement.

Kleinwort Hambros worked with a financially sophisticated client with wealth predominantly generated and held in hedge funds and private equity holdings. The client had previously taken direct exposure to UK and Channel Islands residential property with a strategy aimed at acquisition, development and sale.

Mourant worked with BorgWarner Inc. in relation to its acquisition of Delphi Technologies PLC, a Jersey company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, focussed on developing propulsion products and systems across combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles. The all-stock transaction valued Delphi at around US$3.3 billion and combined two major auto parts makers.

OAK worked with Invinity Energy Systems plc. Unlike conventional battery technologies, vanadium flow batteries do not degrade with continued charge and discharge cycling, allowing them to deliver durable, low-cost storage over decades of service.

Ocorian worked with a global natural resources company with over 90,000 employees and c. US$10 billion EBITDA. Ocorian administer an employee share trust for the client and provide the corporate nominee facility for international employees.

Ogier worked with Jersey companies Clarivate plc and Atotech Limited. Advising them on a Jersey company listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and a complex reorganisation, pre-initial public offering (IPO).

PraxisIFM worked with a large hedge fund looking to enter into joint venture agreement with a London-based developer, investor and asset manager.

R&H Trust Co (Jersey) Limited worked with a Middle Eastern based investment company with a proven track record to provide an appropriate structure for the client to enable both individual and corporate investors, situated in a variety of regions and countries across the world, to have the opportunity to collectively invest in growing businesses operating in a number of markets.

Sanne worked with a global insurance group company. Their client required the restructuring of multi-jurisdictional entities in 2020, when litigation proceedings commenced from investors in connection with the sale of its stake in a company which was sold as part of an Initial Public Offering.

Standard Chartered worked with an ultra-high net worth (UHNW) client residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), but who is a British citizen holding a Person of Indian Origin card.

VG worked with a US-based asset manager. The client wished to establish a Jersey-resident structure to issue collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) marketed to sophisticated international investors.