20 July 2023 | 1 min read
BVI aspects of financial transactions involving Islamic finance and Shari'ah-compliant principles

Christian Burns-Di Lauro
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Client feedback, 2020
Christian is a finance and restructuring lawyer with almost a decade's experience, specialising in all aspects of financing with a strong focus on real estate finance, derivative transactions and non-contentious and consensual insolvency and credit restructuring.
Christian is a partner within Ogier's Banking and Finance team, specialising in all aspects of finance and security from a British Virgin Islands and Jersey law perspective.
He represents a wide range of financial institutions and organisations advising on the British Virgin Islands and Jersey law aspects of finance and restructuring transactions.
He has practiced in London, Jersey, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, has a holistic approach to cross-jurisdictional offshore legal advice and is well placed to draw on this experience to add greater value to clients and intermediaries working across multiple jurisdictions.
Christian is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Corporate Recovery and Private Equity teams. He specialises in advice in relation to refinancing, security enforcement, corporate restructuring and reorganisation and subscription credit and capital call facilities entered into by funds, with experience in formal insolvency procedures and providing advice in relation to enforcement options for creditors.
Before joining Ogier in 2014, he worked as a finance associate in the London office of Addleshaw Goddard LLP (including a secondment with The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, and a secondment with Diageo's Africa legal team).
Christian gained his LLB Hons from the University of Exeter in 2005 and is a member of The Law Society of England and Wales and qualified as an English Solicitor in 2010. He was also admitted as a British Virgin Islands legal practitioner in 2017.
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