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Peter Cockhill

Peter Cockhill 

Partner , Cayman Islands

 
phone +1 345 815 1854 
email peter.cockhill@ogier.com 
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Location:
Cayman Islands

Area of expertise:
Corporate and Commercial, Investment Funds, Restructuring & Insolvency, Business and Trust Law Group

Background:

Peter is a partner in the Ogier group practising Cayman law.  He is the head of Ogier's global investment funds team.  Peter served on the Ogier group strategy and management boards from 2004 until 2011 and is the former Managing Partner of the Cayman office.

He received his Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours, from the University of York in 1987 and a British Academy postgraduate scholarship from Cambridge University in 1988, Common Professional Exam and Law Society Finals at Lancaster Gate, London (1990).

Peter is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society, the Caymanian Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales.  Peter is a director of the global board of Hedge Funds Care and is a director of Cayman Finance. 

He is a frequent speaker at international professional association seminars and conferences.  He is recognised as a leading funds and corporate layers in The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers, the IFLR 1000, Legal 500, Plc Which Lawyer? and Chambers Global.

Admitted in
1998 - Cayman Islands
1992 - England & Wales (not practising)




 

 Recognition

  • quotation mark  a renowned investment funds specialist whose acumen covers both fund structuring and transactional advice quotation mark

    PLC Which Lawyer? 2008

  • quotation mark  always delivers easily understood technical advice quotation mark

    Chambers Global 2007

  • quotation mark  really excellent quotation mark

    Chambers Global 2008

  • quotation mark  Clients keenly recommend the “excellent, thorough and prompt" Peter Cockhill quotation mark

    Chambers and Partners 2009

  • quotation mark  He is knowledgeable, innovative and responsive - everything you would want a lawyer to be quotation mark

    Chambers and Partners 2009

  • quotation mark  Peter features in the 2010 Edition of the "Who's Who Legal" for private funds lawyers quotation mark

    Who's Who Legal 2010

  • quotation mark  highly regarded in the industry for his talented work in the funds arena. He is also a critical figure in the firm's business strategy, as well as featuring on several industry boards, especially concentrating on hedge funds. quotation mark

    Chambers 2011

  • quotation mark  Terrific lawyer quotation mark

    Chambers 2011

  • quotation mark  A Leading Lawyer quotation mark

    IFLR 1000 2011

  • quotation mark  A key contact quotation mark

    Legal 500 2011

 
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