Ogier

Global Managing Partner: Edward Mackereth

Number of global partners: 100

Number of fee earners worldwide: 500+

Number of staff worldwide: 1100+

Languages: 30+ including Cantonese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Firm overview: 

Ogier provides legal advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law. The firm’s network of locations also includes Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Legal services for the corporate and financial sectors form the core of the business, principally in the areas of banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, dispute resolution, private equity and private wealth. Ogier has strong practices in the areas of restructuring, corporate recovery and insolvency, employee benefits and incentives, employment law, regulatory and property. Ogier’s corporate administration business, Ogier Global, works closely with Ogier’s partner-led legal teams to incorporate and administer a wide variety of vehicles, offering clients integrated legal and corporate administration services.

Ogier's FinTech offering: 

Ogier has established itself as the market leader in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands for advising on decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), decentralised finance (DeFi), digital and blockchain-related platforms and digital assets generally. Ogier also assists with creating, structuring and launching crypto and blockchain-related funds across its jurisdictions.

Ogier's global team assists clients with creating, launching, funding and evolving their digital and decentralised projects and implementing blockchain and cryptocurrency related investment products.

The firm's multi-disciplinary team advises the world's largest virtual asset investment businesses, including virtual asset funds, managers, lenders, traders, consultants, brokers and custodians.

With experts across our jurisdictions - including BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg - Ogier brings a global perspective to its work with clients, which includes launching cryptocurrency and blockchain related funds, both hedge and venture capital, plus private sales, airdrops and grants of tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and a variety of fundraising.

The firm's dedicated team has extensive experience in liquidity pools, farming, staking, NFTs and a variety of fundraising activities, including private and seed-round fundraising for token launches, raising capital via simple agreements for future tokens/equities, subsequent token launches, ICOs, and series financing.

Ogier's clients include the world's largest virtual asset businesses, including virtual asset funds, managers, lenders, traders, consultants, brokers and custodians, plus start-ups and SMEs looking to become licensed or regulated.

With a multi-disciplinary approach that brings together its sector-leading funds, corporate, finance, tax and regulatory experts, the firm's dedicated team offers clients exceptional market insight, whatever your diverse needs.

The firm also provides truly expert disputes advice in relation to crypto matters where its best-in-class disputes and litigation practices leverage its unparalleled experience in this area to advise clients in some of the highest profile disputes and recoveries.