
Christian Burns-Di Lauro
Partner
British Virgin Islands, Jersey

Christian Burns-Di Lauro
Partner
British Virgin Islands, Jersey
Services
We have the knowledge and expertise to handle the most demanding and complex transactions and provide expert, efficient and cost effective services to all our clients. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies enable us to add real value to our clients’ businesses.
Sectors
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between our business divisions, our service lines and our jurisdictions. These sector-based teams have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients see around corners.
We have the knowledge and expertise to handle the most demanding and complex transactions and provide expert, efficient and cost effective services to all our clients. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies enable us to add real value to our clients’ businesses.
Legal
Corporate and Fiduciary
Consulting
Ogier provides practical advice on a unique combination of six laws: BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg. Our global network covers Asian, European and US time zones.
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Dispute Resolution
Employment law
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds
Listing services
Local Legal Services
Private Wealth
Regulatory
Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Tax
Banking and Finance overview
Asset Finance
CAYLUX Fund Finance
Debt Capital Markets
Derivatives
Fund Finance
Islamic Finance
Leveraged Finance
Listing services
Real Estate Finance
Regulatory
Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Structured Finance
Sustainable Finance
Corporate overview
Economic Substance
Equity Capital Markets
Listing services
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity
Real Estate Structuring, Acquisitions and Disposals
Regulatory
Technology and Web3
Dispute Resolution overview
Banking Disputes
Corporate and Financial Services Disputes
Crypto Disputes
Enforcement of Judgments and Awards
Fraud and Asset Tracing
Funds Disputes
Insurance Disputes
International Arbitration
Regulatory
Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Section 238 Shareholder Appraisal Rights
Shareholder and Valuation Disputes
Trusts Disputes and Applications
Investment Funds overview
Hedge Funds
Managers and Sponsors
Private Equity
Real Estate, Infrastructure and Energy Funds
Regulatory
Sustainable Investing and Impact Funds
Technology and Web3
Local Legal Services overview
Cayman Local Legal Services
Channel Islands Local Legal Services
Ireland Local Legal Services
Employment law
Estate Planning, Wills and Probate
Expat services
Family Office
Intellectual Property
Make your Guernsey will online
Make your Jersey lasting power of attorney online
Make your Jersey will online
Notary public services
Relocating your business
Relocating your family
Property law
Providing exceptional and efficient service, our Corporate, Funds, Private Wealth and Capital Markets teams offer clients integrated legal and corporate administration services with a strong reputation in governance and regulatory compliance.
Accounting and Financial Reporting Services - Ogier Global
Cayman Islands AML/CFT training - Ogier Global
Corporate Services - Ogier Global
Debt Capital Markets - Ogier Global
Fund Services - Ogier Global
Governance Services - Ogier Global
Investor Services - Ogier Global
Ogier Connect - Ogier Global
Private Wealth Services - Ogier Global
Real Estate Services - Ogier Global
Regulatory and Compliance Services - Ogier Global
Our experts provide independent guidance spanning advice and training to implementation and evaluation across sustainable investing, regulatory compliance and tech. Our tailored advice meets clients' specific needs, delivering flexible solutions and support.
Ogier Regulatory Consulting
Sustainable Investment Consulting
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between our business divisions, our service lines and our jurisdictions. These sector-based teams have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients see around corners.
Ogier provides practical advice on BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law through our global network of offices across the Asian, Caribbean and European timezones. Ogier is the only firm to advise on this unique combination of laws.
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Fresh thinking, sharper opinion.
We get straight to the point, managing complexity to get to the essentials. Our global network of offices covers every time zone.
Popular with high-net-worth individuals and investors from across industry sectors, BVI structures are used throughout the world. This is why we offer BVI qualified lawyers in all time zones.
In addition to our team based in the Caribbean, we have BVI qualified lawyers in London, the Channel Islands and Hong Kong, many of whom have significant on-the-ground experience practising in the BVI.
Our specialist teams in Europe and Asia can provide BVI legal advice directly from Europe and Asia to leading global financial institutions and international law firms, investment managers and corporate entities, boutique advisers and other intermediaries, as well as high net worth individuals – providing a true 24-hour service to clients across the globe.
Legal 500 Caribbean, 2020
Simon Schilder, Partner, Ogier Legal L.P., British Virgin Islands, Jersey
Legal 500 Caribbean, 2018
Christian Burns-Di Lauro, Partner, British Virgin Islands, Jersey
Legal 500 UK, 2021
Tim Clipstone, Partner, Guernsey
Chambers UK, 2023
Simon Dinning, Partner, Jersey, London
Client feedback, 2018
Marie-Claire Fudge, Partner, British Virgin Islands, Jersey
Legal 500 UK, 2023
Josephine Howe, Partner, Jersey
Chambers Global, 2022
Brian Lacy, Partner, British Virgin Islands, Jersey
Citywealth IFC Awards 2022
David Welford, Partner, British Virgin Islands, Jersey
Asian Legal Business, Asia's Top Offshore Litigators, 2022
Oliver Payne, Partner 合伙人, Hong Kong
Asian Legal Business Offshore Client Choice List 2022
Anthony Oakes, Partner, 合伙人, Hong Kong
IFLR 1000, 2022
Kate Hodson 凯特 ·赫臣, Partner and Head of ESG (Legal) 合伙人, Hong Kong
Ogier's Banking and Finance team provides advice relating to deals with commercial lending facilities, acting for both lenders and borrowers, together with the associated share and asset security packages, structured financing (including the establishment of MTN programmes) and asset finance. We have a strong focus on fund and real estate financings and are supported by global dispute resolution and restructuring and insolvency teams.
Our Corporate team provides advice on capital markets (debt and equity), pre-IPO investments, IPOs (including SPACs), PIPEs and secondary offerings, downstream private equity acquisitions and disposals, take-privates, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, schemes and plans of arrangement, liquidation services and general corporate advisory and opinion work. We work across all asset classes with a particular focus on real estate, natural resources, telecommunications, technology and web3.
Our Dispute Resolution team advises on the technical, strategic and procedural aspects across a spectrum of disputes. Frequently multi-jurisdictional in nature, this includes advice in relation to trusts, companies, shareholder issues, distressed funds, director’s duties, investment performance, banking and other financial transactions, as well as fraud and asset tracing claims, and all aspects of the regulatory framework within which our clients must operate.
Our Investment Funds team advises on the formation, licensing and ongoing advisory services to hedge funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds and private equity funds, including advising such funds on co-investment vehicles and downstream investments. We also advise investment managers choosing to domicile their investment management entity in the BVI, fund administrators providing services to both BVI and non-BVI funds and institutional investors in such funds. We also advise in relation to sustainable investment and impact funds.
We act for trustee companies, private individuals, family offices, commercial organisations, onshore law firms and charities and other philanthropic organisations, advising on structuring and restructuring using trusts, private trust companies and foundations.
Our regulatory team provides BVI regulatory advice in relation to the carrying on of all forms of financial services activities/ businesses in the BVI, both for clients looking to use BVI structures to provide "investment business" services and also by clients seeking to market financial products into the BVI. We also advise in relation to compliance with each of the BVI's anti-money laundering regulations, economic substance regime and FATCA/CRS AEOI requirements.
At Ogier, we have experts across our jurisdictions covering the fintech ecosystem advising on decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), decentralised finance (DeFi) and the Web3 landscape. We have established ourselves as the market leader in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI) for creating and implementing a variety of innovative and regulatory compliant structures and have experts across our jurisdictions who are fully engaged with their local regulators to help steer the future regulatory landscape.
Our corporate administration business, Ogier Global, works closely with Ogier's partner-led legal teams to incorporate and administer a wide variety of vehicles. Our services includes accounting and financial reporting, corporate services, debt capital markets, fund services, governance, private wealth services, real estate services and regulatory and compliance services.
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Christian Burns-Di Lauro
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British Virgin Islands, Jersey
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British Virgin Islands, Jersey
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British Virgin Islands, Jersey
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British Virgin Islands, Jersey
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Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
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Kate Hodson 凯特 ·赫臣
Partner and Head of ESG (Legal) 合伙人
Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
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BVI law in Europe and Asia
We provide BVI legal advice directly from Europe and Asia, providing a 24-hour service to clients across the globe
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Insight
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BVI amends AML Regulations to embrace new industries
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2022 Amendments to BVI the Business Companies Act
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