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"It's my job to help clients achieve their objectives with as little unnecessary cost, stress and risk as possible."
Wayne works with a broad range of regulated entities and investment funds on fundraising, transaction and investment structuring, commercial contracts and mergers and acquisitions. As one of the leaders of Collas Crill's risk and regulatory team he also regularly advises businesses on regulatory compliance including money-laundering issues, listing rules requirements, competition law, data protection and Guernsey financial services regulation more generally.
Wayne has also built considerable expertise in assisting company boards and activist shareholders in relation to contentious general meetings and associated issues arising out of investor actions.
A regular speaker at seminars and conferences in relation to company law, regulatory and fund matters, Wayne is well known for his down-to-earth plain speaking approach to explaining complex legal and regulatory issues.
Prior to joining Collas Crill in 2009, Wayne trained and qualified as a corporate lawyer with Herbert Smith in London working primarily in the firm's investment funds and regulatory team. Following this he spent a number of years in the British Virgin Islands advising on a range of investment funds and general corporate transactions.
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Banking & Finance
Banks today face an ever increasing raft of challenges, both regulatory and commercial, as well as competition for deals from non-bank lenders and alternative funders. We provide our banking client...
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...
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...
Risk & Regulatory
Collas Crill's multi-disciplinary approach to providing Risk & Regulatory services ensures that every aspect of our clients' businesses is covered. By drawing on the skills and experience of a highly ...
Collas Crill IP
Collas Crill IP is a Channel Islands company offering a wide range of traditional IP services as well as new and innovative products to IP owners and their agents. Collas Crill IP offers a full range ...
Relocate to the Channel Islands
Our team is ideally placed to advise on and project manage such a relocation, advising on everything from company migrations, housing licences and real estate matters through to introductions to other...
Business Relocation
For businesses, a relocation to the Channel Islands can bring significant advantages – Guernsey and Jersey's world leading financial services regulation and company laws are modern, business friendly ...
Guernsey and Jersey have obtained approval from both the EU Council’s Code of Conduct Group and the European Council of Finance Ministers in relation ...
Stock Exchange – SEC Recognition
At the end of January 2019, The International Stock Exchange was able to announce that it had been recognised by the US Securities and Exchange Commis...
Collas Crill group partners Paul Wilkes and Wayne Atkinson, from the firm’s Guernsey office, have been recognised in this year’s Who’s Who Legal Priva...
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission ("GFSC") has released a series of documents, potentially of interest to a range of financial services busin...
CC advises UK property refinancing
Collas Crill has assisted The Royal Bank of Scotland International Limited (RBSI) with the amendment and restatement of a £23 million facility to Baza...
Collas Crill has provided Guernsey law advice to Life Company Consolidation Group (LCCG) on its entry into an agreement to acquire Generali Worldwide ...
Collas Crill has advised the Condor Group on its refinance by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, ING Bank N.V., London Branch and others under a £172mill...
Offshore law firm Collas Crill has acted for India Capital Growth Fund Ltd (ICGF) in its step-up from the AIM market to the Main Market of the London ...
