Stephen has been practicing British Virgin Islands law for close to two decades, advising on a full range of corporate cross border matters including joint ventures, mergers, acquisition finance, asset and project finance, investment funds, alternative investments, private equity and capital market transactions.
He also has considerable experience in trust and private client matters having held senior positions in several trust and corporate services businesses.
Stephen joins the firm from Bedell Cristin where he headed up the firm's BVI practice in Asia, having been instrumental in the launch of the Singapore office in 2012. Prior to that, Stephen founded BVI law firm Barker Adams following his role as corporate senior partner at Walkers in the BVI.
Stephen is a member of STEP and the Singapore Institute of Directors. He also acts as non-executive director for a select number of prominent hedge funds.
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Corporate & Commercial
With a depth of multi-jurisdictional experience our offices in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Jersey, London and Singapore, we ensure that advice is provided in the context of other key global offshore centre...
Mergers & Acquisitions
We regularly act in relation to significant M&A activity in our jurisdictions, whether as lead counsel for strictly local matters or as part of an international team for multi-jurisdictional transacti...
Corporate Governance & Shareholder Relations
Good corporate governance and a sound understanding of directors duties is important to companies. Regardless of size, establishing a best practice approach should be fundamental to all boards. The bo...
Commercial Structuring & Contracts
Offshore vehicles are used for a huge range of purposes either standing alone or as part of large multi-jurisdictional structures. Our highly commercial team specialises in advising clients on the mos...
Investment Funds & Private Equity
Our fund specialists offer advice on all aspects relating to the establishment, authorisation and structuring of funds and related investment vehicles. We have particular expertise acting for emerging...
Fund Formation
Our uniquely diverse practice regularly assists with the establishment of both open and closed-ended fund structures. In addition to traditional private equity and real estate structures we have ad...
Private Client Advisory
As global legislation, regulation and taxation constantly change and become more complex, it has never been more important to make long-term plans to secure your future, the future of your family or y...
Wills & Succession Planning
Wills, inheritance & estate planning are essentially about the living. That may seem contradictory, but we believe that while dealing with the estates of the deceased, we are very much working with th...
BVI Substance Video Series - 6
The sixth video from our BVI substance series looks at what the substance requirements are for IP businesses. Throughout this eight part series we a...
BVI Substance Video Series - 5
The fifth video from our BVI substance series looks at what the implications are of Substance Requirements Generally. Throughout this eight part ser...
BVI Substance Video Series - 4
The fourth video from our BVI substance series looks at what the implications of Economic Substance are for IP businesses. Throughout this eight par...
BVI Substance Video Series - 3
The third video from our BVI substance series looks at what economic substance means for one of the most common types of company in the BVI – holding ...
Landmark New York Property Deal
Collas Crill’s British Virgin Islands’ (BVI) commercial team has provided legal advice to Extell Development on a $530 million loan package to facilit...
Trans Atlantic Shipmanagement Ltd
Our BVI team, working with Robinson & Cole LLP (Boston), advised Trans Atlantic Shipmanagement Ltd, SMT Galaxy Investment Limited and Cymbidium Shippi...
Collas Crill's Guernsey and BVI offices have recently acted in the acquisition of a Guernsey Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) on behalf of a prominent Tu...
Offshore LSE Listings - Q4 2017
Guernsey, Jersey, BVI and Cayman continue to lead the way for accessing London's capital markets.
