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Paul Chanter

Partner

Guernsey

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Paul is a partner in the banking and finance team of Ogier's Guernsey office. He regularly advises a wide range of financial institutions, alternative lenders and corporates on banking, derivatives, corporate, and finance transactions, predominantly of a multi-jurisdictional nature. He also regularly advises on leveraged finance transactions and listings on the International Stock Exchange. Paul is also part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring & Corporate Recovery team, and Private Equity team. He is ranked as a rising star for Guernsey Banking and Finance by the Legal 500 2020 and the ILFR 1000 2020.

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Paul regularly advises a wide range of financial institutions, alternative lenders and corporates on banking, derivatives, corporate, restructuring, and finance transactions, predominantly of a multi-jurisdictional nature. He also regularly advises on leveraged finance transactions and listings on the International Stock Exchange.

Paul is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring & Corporate Recovery team. He specialises in refinancing, corporate restructuring and reorganisation, and formal insolvency procedures. He regularly advises upon refinancing, restructuring and reorganisation strategies, together with security enhancement, enforcement of security and insolvency procedures.

Paul is also a member of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team. He specialises in advising financial institutions and private equity sponsors on leveraged buyout and acquisition financing transactions. His achievements include advising a consortium consisting of Apax, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, on the Guernsey financing aspects of the US$3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat.  

Paul also regularly advises global investment banks in respect of industry standard documentation produced by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the International Capital Market Association and the International Securities Lending Association.

Paul is ranked as a rising star for Guernsey Banking and Finance by the Legal 500 2020 and the ILFR 1000 2020.

Before joining Ogier in February 2014, he worked as a finance associate in a leading international law firm.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Laws in English and French law from King’s College London, and a Maîtrise en Droit from Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He qualified as an English Solicitor in 2009 and as a Guernsey Advocate in 2016.

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2016 - Guernsey
2009 - England & Wales

 

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"He showed an exceptional level of professionalism. He's always responsive and focused on the job in hand"

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Legal 500 UK, 2020

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"Very responsive"

Client feedback, 2019

"He was very good. He struck a balance in terms of his methodology and his approach to the interaction. He picked up the phone when that was the most efficient means of communication, as opposed to providing long drawn out emails. He took the most appropriate approach in meeting our requirements"

Client feedback, 2018

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