BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Law and Practice Contributed by: Matthew Cowman, Alex Drysdale, Rosalind Nicholson and Omonike Robinson-Pickering, Walkers
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Authors
Matthew Cowman is the managing partner of Walkers’ BVI office and a partner in the corporate group. He has over 25 years’ experience as an international commercial lawyer, having worked in the British Virgin
Rosalind Nicholson specialises in corporate litigation and advises on strategy, risk management and corporate governance issues. She focuses particularly on shareholder and boardroom disputes, contested
Islands, London and Australia. Matthew acts for clients in a range of corporate transactions, such as joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations. He also advises clients in banking and finance transactions, and acts for lenders and borrowers in a range of matters, including acquisition finance, real estate finance and general corporate finance.
takeovers, and contentious and non-contentious solvent and insolvent corporate restructuring and complex insolvency. As part of Walkers’ insolvency and dispute resolution group, Rosalind’s work extends to all areas of company law in which a litigation risk might arise, or the need to apply to the court. Omonike Robinson-Pickering specialises in advising on complex finance matters, general corporate transactions and succession matters. She has wide experience in advising leading international banks and financial institutions, as well as borrowers, in general banking, asset and project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate finance transactions. Omonike also has a broad general corporate practice and assists the heirs of (ultra) high net worth individuals with succession matters.
Alex Drysdale advises corporates, private equity houses and financial institutions on a range of complex, cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, joint ventures and
corporate restructurings. He has acted on some of the most significant corporate transactions in the British Virgin Islands and is a go-to lawyer in the jurisdiction for public company work with a BVI nexus. Alex has also advised on some of the jurisdiction’s most significant restructuring transactions, including advising FTX in bankruptcy as part of its Chapter 11 proceedings, and advising clients on complex debt restructurings pursuant to BVI schemes of arrangement.
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