BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Law and Practice Contributed by: Omonike Robinson-Pickering, Iona Wright, Lucy Frew and Sara Hall, Walkers
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Authors
Omonike Robinson-Pickering is a finance partner at Walkers based in the BVI. Omonike’s finance experience comes from working with leading international banks and financial
Iona Wright is a regulatory and risk advisory partner at Walkers based in the BVI. She has spent over 14 years advising on financial services regulation and has considerable prudential
institutions as well as borrowers in general banking, asset and project finance, real-estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate finance transactions. She also has experience in corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. She regularly advises clients on succession matters too, including applications for all types of grants of representation.
experience, having been a trusted adviser to a number of US and Canadian headquartered banking groups. Iona has expertise across a wide range of financial services regulatory matters, including licensing and regulatory perimeter analyses, the BVI implementation of OECD tax-driven initiatives, and the BVI anti-money laundering, sanctions, beneficial ownership, data protection and virtual assets regimes.
Lucy Frew heads Walkers’ global regulatory and risk advisory group. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a specialist financial regulatory and risk management lawyer. As
Sara Hall is a partner in Walkers’ regulatory and risk advisory team based in London. She advises on BVI, Cayman and Bermuda law. She has spent over 30 years advising banks on
well as being legal counsel at a global bank in London, she has worked at the UK regulator and has advised financial institutions at law firms in London since 2001, prior to which she practised as a barrister.
financial services conduct and prudential law and regulation. Prior to joining Walkers, Sara held senior legal and compliance roles in global banking groups including global head of regulatory compliance and also worked at the UK regulator.
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