Ogier established a permanent presence within Asia’s fastest growing economy in 2011 to further expand the delivery of our client-focused services.
Ogier is the first and only offshore legal and administration firm to open an office in mainland China. The Shanghai office works closely with our China Team in Hong Kong. Ogier’s China Team consists of Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese and English-speaking professionals and is the only team in Asia to have lawyers qualified in the key offshore jurisdictions of British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. This enables us to work on complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions in the Asian time-zone.
Our China Team provides legal and corporate administration services that will particularly benefit China-based clients, including:
- Capital markets (debt and equity initial public offerings): we have considerable experience in advising on listing offshore companies on the HKEx together with pre-IPO restructuring and investment
- Mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactional advice: structuring advice, due diligence and investor protection issues
- Banking and finance: lending to groups with offshore companies including taking and enforcing security and opinions
- Investment funds: offshore legal advice and associated fiduciary services, including trustee services, corporate administration and directorships to hedge funds, long only funds and private equity funds
- Trusts and private wealth: legal advice and trustee services, administration and directorships to trusts, asset holding companies, private trust companies, limited partnerships and foundations used in private wealth structures
The Shanghai office is headed by Kristy Calvert. For more information on our Shanghai office and our services, please contact Kristy Calvert.
