corporate & commercial, Guernsey
Guernsey is a world-renowned international financial centre with a particular focus on banking and finance, investment management, investment funds, IPOs, private wealth and insurance. Guernsey is also increasingly prominent in the growth sectors of reinsurance and online gambling and is highly regarded as a gateway to the emerging markets. Guernsey is home to a number of global fund managers, which value its regulatory environment as well as its international business infrastructure, and is the leading offshore domicile for London listed funds and IPOs with listed Guernsey-domiciled Indian-focused vehicles being a recent favourite.
Appleby’s Corporate & Commercial lawyers are well connected within Guernsey's business community and advise on Guernsey and international corporate matters, including banking and asset finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, migrations, joint ventures, restructurings and listings on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX). The team is regularly instructed by institutional clients as well as by UK and international law firms. The Guernsey team acts for some of the largest organisations in the world across a spectrum of industries, including banking, commodities, resources and investment management.
Our Guernsey lawyers also have extensive experience in establishing investment managers and structuring investment funds of all types, whether in corporate, partnership or trust form, including private equity funds, property funds, hedge funds, funds of funds, permanent capital vehicles and alternatives funds such as infrastructure, resources, commodities, clean energy, technology and green funds.
The Guernsey team is supported by Appleby Trust (Guernsey)Limited, which offers corporate and trust administration services to high net worth individuals and private companies.
Appleby is the only offshore law firm with a presence in each of the three Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man and is the only Guernsey law firm able to advise on each of Bermuda, BVI and Cayman law.