The fund has been established to make a diversified portfolio of timberland timber related investments on a global basis. Share in the fund have been admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment Market and admitted to listing and trading on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange.
Deal Partner: Gavin Farrell and Michelle Youlton
Re-structure of an existing Cayman registered open ended fund, migration to Guernsey and restructure upon registration as a closed-ended fund. Including capital re-structuring and related re-financing and a new placing following introduction and admission to the official list of the London Stock Exchange.
Deal Partner: Gavin Farrell and Andrew Walters
Acted as Guernsey legal adviser in connection with the establishment of an open ended Channel Island Stock Exchange listed fund of property funds.
Deal Partners: Valerie Rouse, Barrister and Advocate Andrew Walters, Solicitor
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers on the establishment of Oryx Egypt Private Equity Fund Limited, a feeder fund for Coral Growth Investments Limited, to be managed by the Saudi National Commercial Bank.
Deal Partner: Paul Christopher, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Ozannes acted as Guernsey legal advisers to the establishment of Arasbridge Unit Trust, an open-ended unit trust authorised by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission under the Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987 as a Class B collective investment scheme.
Deal Partners: Paul Christopher, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Valerie Rouse, Barrister, Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers to the launching of the Majestic Village No 2 Fund Cell of the Stirling Mortimer Property Fund PCC Limited.
Deal Partners: Paul Christopher, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Helen Crossley, Solicitor
Advised in connection with the establishment of a closed ended AIM listed investment company investing in Japanese residential property.
Deal Partner: Peter Harwood and Andrew Walters, Solicitor
Ozannes acted for Belgia Venture Capitalist Group and Moscow Narodny Bank in the establishment of this private equity investment fund specialising in Russian investments advised by Eagle Venture Partners. €60-100 million.
Deal Partner: David Moore, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers in connection with the launch of Kenmore European Industries fund raising up to £140 million, investing in property across Europe with Herbert Smith.
Deal Partners: Gavin Farrell, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Helen Crossley, Solicitor
Ozannes acted as Guernsey legal adviser to the formation of the Condor Film Fund, a closed-ended fund raising up to US$25 million for the purpose of making investments by way of loan facilities to a US Film distributor and to obtain a premium upon repayment of such facilities.
Deal Partner: Paul Christopher, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal adviser and Jersey legal adviser to Barclays Capital on a £1 billion refinancing transaction which involved repackaging debt facilities by a number of institutions. The complex matter which created a bespoke product was completed in four weeks.
This is the first major transaction which involved Ozannes Guernsey and Ozannes Jersey combining their expertise to complete the deal.
Ozannes acted as Guernsey legal adviser to the third Greenpark Capital secondaries fund together with Ropes & Gray LLP (US law) and S J Berwin (UK law) in the successful fund raising of €600 million for investment in the private equity secondaries market.
Deal Partner: David Moore, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Amalgamation of London Power Insurance Ltd and Seeboard Insurance Company Ltd. - both captive insurance companies operated by EDF Energy Plc.
Deal Partners: Peter Harwood and Helen Wyatt
Creation of three new cells of this structured derivative platform.
Deal Partner: Peter Harwood, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Michelle Youlton, Solicitor
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers to Goldman Sachs International as the lead manager and underwriter of the KKR PEI structure.
Ozannes acted as Guernsey legal adviser to the successful second round fund raising of £350 million and the subsequent application for reduction of share capital before the Royal Court of Guernsey, for what is now the largest company on AIM and the biggest external investor into Russian real estate.
Deal Partner: David Moore, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal adviser in the establishment of the Norvestor IV LP private equity structure.
Establishment of a Spanish property fund, Stirling Mortimer Property Fund PCC Limited, which was subsequently listed on the CISX and the establishment of the management company Stirling Mortimer (Guernsey) Limited.
Deal Partner: Paul Christopher, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers on the Guernsey elements of the establishment of a £150 million property fund, The Brockton Capital Fund 1 LP, including the first acquisition by the fund of property in St James Street, London and advising on the financing for the acquisition of the property.
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers in connection with the establishment of Atlas Estates Limited, a closed-ended investment company investing in real estate assets located in countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Also admitted for trading on AIM in relation to the raising of Euros 157 million by the placing of shares in the company.
Acted in relation to the set up of a fund of hedge funds.
Deal Partner: Gavin Farrell, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Ozannes Securities Limited acted as sponsor to the listing of £1,000,000,000 Guaranteed 2016 Floating Rate Notes on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange.
Deal Partner: Paul Christopher, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers to the board of this Guernsey closed-ended collective investment scheme: the first infrastructure fund to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. The fund will invest in schools, hospitals and other UK infrastructure government projects through Public Finance Initiatives.
Advised HSBC on the Guernsey aspects on a securitisation for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership involving the issue of loan notes by UK Balanced Property Finance Limited (a Guernsey company listed on the London Stock Exchange) and advising HSBC in its capacity as working capital provider, account bank, hedging provider and cash money and HSBC Trustee (CI) Limited in its capacity as trustee.
Deal Partner: David Moore, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Helen Crossley, Solicitor
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers in connection with the further raising of capital through the issue of C shares for Teesland Advantage Property Income Trust Ltd, a closed ended London and Channel Island stock exchange listed investment company. £71 million.
Deal Partners: Andrew Walters, Solicitor
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers in connection with the restructuring and subsequent migration to Guernsey of a closed ended Cayman Islands fund and in connection with the subsequent raising of further capital and listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Deal Partners: Gavin Farrell, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Andrew Walters, Solicitor, Valerie Rouse, Barrister and Advocate
Acted as Guernsey legal adviser in connection with the establishment of Rutley European Property Limited, a closed-ended Guernsey-registered, pan-European property investment company and the raising of up to €200 Million by the issue of shares in that company.
Deal Partners: Peter Harwood, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Andrew Walters, Solicitor
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers in connection with the further raising of capital through the issue of C shares for Rutley European Property Limited, a closed-ended Guernsey-registered, pan-European property investment company.
Deal Partners: Peter Harwood, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Andrew Walters, Solicitor
Acted as Guernsey legal advisers in relation to setting up a new Guernsey Limited infrastructure partnership, investing in utilities in conjunction with Lion Capital.
Deal Partners: Gavin Farrell, Partner, Solicitor and Advocate Helen Crossley, Solicitor Michelle Youlton, Solicitor