"I enjoy the variety of work and diversity of clients we have at Collas Crill. No two deals or clients are ever the same."
Mike is an experienced corporate, banking and finance lawyer heading up the corporate, finance and funds team in Jersey.
Mike's corporate practice involves advising listed companies, private groups, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, private equity vehicles, directors and shareholders on areas like mergers and acquisitions, corporate migrations, group restructurings, joint ventures and class rights, shareholder disputes, private placements and public offerings (including IPOs and secondary offerings), corporate governance and directors' duties and employee incentive schemes.
His banking and finance practice involves advising borrowers and lenders on areas like acquisition and leveraged finance, asset finance, Islamic finance, project finance, real estate finance, debt restructuring and security enforcement. He also advises arrangers, dealers and SPVs in relation to debt issues (including note programmes and securitisations) and structured products.
Prior to joining Collas Crill, Mike worked for another leading offshore law firm in both Jersey and the BVI. He has also worked for Allen Allen & Hemsley in Sydney and Clifford Chance in London.
Mike was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2001 (currently non-practising) and the British Virgin Islands in 2011.
*not a member of Collas Crill LLP in Jersey
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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...
Capital Markets
Our capital markets team has substantial onshore as well as offshore capital markets experience, giving us in depth understanding of all aspects of capital markets structures and the commercial driver...
Debt Capital Markets
We advise on structured bond issuance, securitisations, convertibles (including cash box structures) and hybrid deals that make use of offshore special purpose vehicles. Our partners and senior law...
Equity Capital Markets
We advise on public offerings by holding or listing companies incorporated in Jersey, Guernsey and the Cayman Islands. Our clients include issuers, banks, NOMADs and other corporate finance adviser...
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...
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...
A Jersey Property Unit Trust (JPUT) is a type of Jersey trust which is usually used as a vehicle to hold UK commercial real estate assets. A JPUT is ...
As part of BVI’s continued commitment to remain at the forefront of international tax transparency, the Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Part...
Jersey's Economic Substance Law
On the 6th of December, The States of Jersey passed the Draft Taxation (Companies – Economic Substance) (Jersey) Law 201- (Draft Law). The Draft Law, ...
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Offshore LSE Listings - Q4 2017
Guernsey, Jersey, BVI and Cayman continue to lead the way for accessing London's capital markets. For more information on why investors can benefit f...
£300m mobile group acquisition
Collas Crill has acted as BVI legal advisers to Britain's fourth largest mobile group, Three UK, on its £300million acquisition of Transvision Investm...
