Ogier has extensive cross-border and international experience advising on contentious and non-contentious offshore restructuring and insolvency matters, often advising in conjunction with onshore counsel and other professional services providers in connection with company structures. Ogier has excellent relationships with regulators in each of BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey. It is the only legal services provider advising clients on restructuring and insolvency matters across each of those jurisdictions.

Services

• Refinancing and reconstruction.
  
  
• Distressed funds advice.
  
  
• Regulatory advice on restructuring.
  
  
• Advising on the rights of secured creditors and the enforcement of security.
  
  
• Investor/shareholder rights.
  
  
• Schemes of arrangement, amalgamation and reconstruction.
  
  
• Rights and duties of directors in respect of insolvency.
  
  
• Advising on the appointment and removal of liquidators, receivers and provisional liquidators and their powers and duties whilst in office.
  
  
• Compulsory and members voluntary liquidation.
  
  
• Statutory and compulsory acquisition of shares.
  
  
• Desastre, degrevement and other jurisdiction-specific insolvency procedures.
  
  
• Obtaining court validation for trading and other disposals following commencement of compulsory winding up.
  
  
• Claims against directors, auditors, fund administrators, and other service providers.
  
  
• Derivative and other shareholder actions.
  
  
• Asset recovery.