Harneys is an international offshore law firm and provider of corporate and fiduciary services. It was established in 1960 and practices law in Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, and has offices across multiple jurisdictions. Some of its key practice areas include banking and finance, corporate and commercial law, investment funds, private wealth and trusts, litigation, insolvency and restructuring, and corporate and fiduciary services. It has over 150 lawyers and 375 staff serving a range of representative clients including banks, private equity firms, and corporations.
1. About Harneys
Key Practice Areas
Banking and Finance
• Debt finance and restructuring
• Project, property and acquisition finance
• Shipping and aircraft finance
• Shariah compliant finance
• Derivatives
• Capital markets
• Structured finance
Corporate and Commercial
• Joint ventures and shareholder
arrangements
• Corporate governance and reorganisations
• Re-organisations and disposals
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Equity capital markets
• Private equity
• Intellectual property
• Ship and aircraft registration
• Stock exchange listings
• Intellectual property and trademarks
Investment Funds
• Hedge fund establishment and restructuring
• Private equity, venture capital and real
estate fund establishment
• Distressed fund situations
• Manager and administration formation
• Advice on portfolio company acquisitions
and disposals
• Fund restructuring
• Manager and administrator formation
• Regulatory consents and fund investments
Private Wealth and Trusts
• Family trusts and probate
• Commercial trusts
• Charitable and non-charitable purpose
trusts
• Private Trust Companies and family office
• Regulation of trusts and trust companies
• International estate administration
• Private client property
• Private banking advisory
Litigation
• Fraud and asset tracing
• Company advice
• Claims against directors
• Distressed funds
• Banking and contractual disputes
• Shareholder disputes
• Trust litigation
• Administrative law and judicial review
Insolvency and Restructuring
• Debt and equity rescheduling and
refinancing
• Distressed mergers and acquisitions
• Distressed funds advice
• Schemes of arrangement
• Debt for equity swaps
• Out-of-court restructurings and refinancings
• Debt recovery
• Workouts and enforcement of security
Corporate and Fiduciary Services
• Company Formation Services
• Company Administration and Secretarial
• Director Services
• Corporate Trust Services
• Accounting Services
• Liquidation Services
• Fund Directorships
• Corporate Governance
• Trust Services
• Yacht Services
• Safe Custody Services
• FATCA / Tax Information Exchange Services
• Compliance Consultancy
Tax and Regulatory
• Anti-money laundering
• Terrorist financing compliance
• Financial services regulations
• Sanctions
• Tax
• Tax Information exchange
Specialist Groups
• BVI domestic business
• FATCA and tax information compliance
• Islamic finance
• Insurance
• Shipping and aircraft
• Intellectual property
Facts Sheet
Established: 1960
Laws practiced: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus
Offices: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, London, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Montevideo, Sao Paolo,
Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Vancouver
Chairman: Peter Tarn
Number of partners: 40
Number of lawyers: 150
Number of staff: 375
Harneys is an international offshore law firm and provider of corporate and fiduciary services.
www.harneys.com
www.harneysfid.com
2. Representative Clients
212 Limited
ABN AMRO
Angel Mining PLC
Apex Fund Services
Asia Pacific Online Limited
Atlantic Security Bank
Badri Patarkatshishvili
Baker Tilly
Banco Bradesco
Banco de Credito del Peru
Bank Julius Baer
Barclays Capital
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas
BTA JSC Bank of Kazakhstan
BVI Registry of Corporate Affairs
CapitaMalls Asia Ltd
China River Fund SPC
Chinese PE Funds
Citibank
Cobalt Offshore Fund II, Ltd.
Credit Suisse
CVC Capital Partners
DV4 Limited
Deloitte and Touche
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Trust Suisse
Dos Mineiros Capital Fund Ltd.
Dubai Islamic Bank
Entropic Communications, Inc. and Cooley LLP
Equis Group
Equity Trust and TMF Group
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Fairfield
Golden Asia Fund
Grant Thornton
GTS Central European Holding B.V. (GTS)
HSBC
HSH Nordbank AG
ISDA, ICMA/SLRC
JSC VTB Bank
Kinetic Partners
Linklaters
Lloyds TSB Bank
MagiCapital Fund
MerchantBridge Managers, Inc
Merrill Lynch
Nature Elements Capital
Nomura
PJSC Ukrsotsbank and ING Bank N.V.
Quilvest Private Equity
Riad Al Sadik v Investcorp Bank BSC & Ors
Rosneft
SAB Miller
SG Hambros
Shimao Property Group
Silver Lake Partners - SL Dawn Ltd.
Songa Offshore SE
Spring Capital Asia
Standard Chartered Bank (Dubai) Islamic
Standard Chartered Bank (London)
Transpacific Medtech Fund, L.P.
Trident Microsystems (Far East) Ltd
Trikona Advisors Limited
Tullow Oil
UniCredit AG
V Group Limited
Valinor Public Limited
Varbra
Virgin
VTB Bank
Westford Funds/ Epsilon
ZAO Raiffeisenbank
Zolfo Cooper
Awards and Recognition
Facts Sheet
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