22 August 2023 | 1 min read
Ogier's Corporate team advises Fortress on Vice Media acquisition

Oliver Richardson
Team: Simon Dinning, James Angus, Chloe Watson-Hill, Gayoung McLellan, Robin Burkill, Oliver Passmore, and 1 more
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Oliver has a broad corporate and finance practice. He advises on all aspects of transactions involving Jersey or British Virgin Islands incorporated entities. On the finance side Oliver has advised on a number of high-profile project financings, asset financings, aviation financings, export financing, acquisition and cross-border leveraged financings. On the corporate side Oliver regularly works on notable corporate restructurings, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and listings.
Oliver trained and practised in Jones Day's banking and finance team in London (with a secondment to Jones Day's Dubai office) where he advised many of the world's leading financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Standard Bank and Citibank, FTSE 100 borrowers and other capital providers. Oliver then joined the corporate and finance department of another international law firm in the British Virgin Islands where he assisted on some of the largest and most prominent BVI transactions, before returning to the Channel Islands where he is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Corporate, Private Equity and Banking and Finance team (Jersey and BVI).
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22 August 2023 | 1 min read
Ogier's Corporate team advises Fortress on Vice Media acquisition
Oliver Richardson
Team: Simon Dinning, James Angus, Chloe Watson-Hill, Gayoung McLellan, Robin Burkill, Oliver Passmore, and 1 more
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Oliver Richardson
Team: Simon Dinning, Kevin Grové, Tom Williamson, Chloe Watson-Hill
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Simon Dinning
Team: Oliver Richardson, Neo Tshikalange
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Simon Dinning
Team: Oliver Richardson, Bradley Kruger, Richard Bennett
British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Jersey
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Cross-border Ogier team advises Ardonagh Group on completion of US$7.5 billion restructuring
Raulin Amy
Team: Oliver Richardson, Alex Vibert, Lara Morand, Bradley Kruger, Richard Bennett, Tom McLaughlin
Cayman Islands, Jersey
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Simon Dinning
Team: Oliver Richardson, Amy Garrod, Kevin Grové, Chloe Watson-Hill, Hugo Reid
Jersey
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Cross-border Ogier team advises Ardonagh Group's multi-billion dollar investment and restructuring
Raulin Amy
Team: Oliver Richardson, Rebekah Agyeman, Lara Morand, Bradley Kruger
Jersey, Cayman Islands
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Ogier assists Jet2 to raise more than £422 million
Raulin Amy
Team: Oliver Richardson, Lara Morand
Jersey
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Ogier advises on private equity firm's £1.1bn acquisition of Priory Group
James Fox
Team: Oliver Richardson, Robin Burkill, Lara Morand
Jersey
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Team: Bruce MacNeil, James Lydeard, Kate McCaffrey, Raulin Amy, Alexander Curry, Jonathan Hughes, and 29 more
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Ogier appoints five new partners to its global Corporate team
Cynthia Anandajayasekeram
Team: Florence Chan, Alexander Curry, Cecilia Li, Nathan Powell, Oliver Richardson
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Alexander Curry
Team: Oliver Richardson, Raulin Amy
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30 September 2021
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Raulin Amy
Team: James Campbell, Richard Daggett, Simon Dinning, Katrina Edge, Damian Evans, James Fox, and 26 more
Jersey
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6 November 2020
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Oliver Richardson
Team: Matthew Davies, James Campbell
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Martyn Baudains
Team: Paul Chanter, Tim Clipstone, Simon Davies, Bryan De Verneuil-Smith, Gavin Ferguson, Christopher Jones, and 13 more
Guernsey
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15 September 2020
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James Campbell
Team: Josephine Howe, Oliver Richardson, Matthew Davies
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1 May 2020
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Raulin Amy
Team: Oliver Richardson, Hugo Reid
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