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Mark Santangeli

Partner

Cayman Islands

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Mark specialises in all types of finance and is well known for his extensive fund finance practice. He is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team and has significant experience in representing both borrowers and lenders (including major financial institutions, alternative lenders, sponsors, private equity funds and hedge funds) in all types of fund financing products to include subscription line facilities, NAV facilities, GP and management fee facilities, margin lending, fund-of-fund financings and derivative based structures. He has extensive experience in the field of structured finance and advises on a variety of structures including CLOs (including synthetic CLOs), securitisations, warehouse lending, repo-lending, repackagings, risk retentions and asset-based lending.

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Mark specialises in all types of finance and is well known for his extensive fund finance practice. He is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team and has significant experience in representing both borrowers and lenders (including major financial institutions, alternative lenders, sponsors, private equity funds and hedge funds) in all types of fund financing products to include subscription line facilities, NAV facilities, GP and management fee facilities, margin lending, fund-of-fund financings and derivative based structures.

He has extensive experience in the field of structured finance and advises on a variety of structures including CLOs (including synthetic CLOs), securitisations, warehouse lending, repo-lending, repackagings, risk retentions and asset-based lending.

He also has a wide range of experience in asset finance and regularly advises on aviation and shipping finance matters.  Expertise includes secured lendings over Cayman registered corporate jets and private yachts and the use of Cayman SPVs.

In addition to the above, Mark has extensive expertise in advising on debt listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange both on “Eurobond” listings and specialist debt listings.

Before joining Ogier in 2008, he worked as an in-house lawyer at Bank of Scotland Corporate in London.

He received his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 2000 and his Diploma in Legal Practice from Glasgow Graduate School of Law in 2001.

Mark is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association and the Law Society of Scotland.

Mark Santangeli is a leading lawyer in the IFLR1000

Admitted in:
2003 - Scotland
2008 - Cayman Islands

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"The commitment to client service we see from all of the individuals we work with at Ogier is second to none. As a manager often working on a number of high-value short-fuse transactions concurrently, the responsiveness and reliability that Mark Santangeli and his team exhibit is invaluable to us"

Legal 500 Caribbean, 2023

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"The commitment to client service we see from all of the individuals we work with at Ogier is second to none"

Legal 500, 2023

"Consistently provides exemplary client service"

Chambers Global, 2023

"Next Generation Partner"

Legal 500 Caribbean, 2023

"Able to give sensitive advice in context, and in a risk-savvy manner"

Chambers Global, 2022

"Highly regarded"

IFLR 1000, 2022

"Excellent to work with: very responsive, very knowledgeable and commercial in his advice"

Chambers Global, 2021

"Next Generation Partner"

Legal 500 Caribbean, 2022

"He is very approachable, responsive and gives easy-to-understand advice"

Chambers Global, 2020

"Next Generation Partner"

Legal 500 Caribbean, 2021

"Cool under fire in dealing with opposing counsel"

Chambers Global, 2020

"Next Generation Partner"

Legal 500 Caribbean, 2020

"Provides actionable partner-level counsel throughout and is cool under fire"

Legal 500 Caribbean, 2020

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