Anthony Oakes

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Asset Finance, Banking and Finance, Corporate, Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives, ESG, Islamic Finance, Private Equity, Restructuring and Corporate Recovery, Structured Finance and Sustainable Finance

Career

Tony is the head of Ogier’s finance practice in Asia and provides BVI and Cayman legal advice in relation to a broad array of financing transactions and restructurings. He also has a strong focus on corporate work – including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity structures and capital markets transactions. and specialises in banking, capital markets, corporate transactions, structured finance and restructuring.

Since joining Ogier, Tony has advised on a number of landmark finance transactions, including Indonesia's national airline's US$500 million sukuk.

Tony is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Corporate Recovery team. He has worked extensively on refinancings, corporate restructuring and reorganisations, schemes of arrangement and investor and shareholder rights and actions. He also has experience of bond restructurings.

Tony is also part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team. He acts for private equity sponsors and lenders to them, on financing transactions, including cross-border leveraged and acquisition financing transactions, margin loans, minority ‘back leverage’ financings, mezzanine financings, fund-level financings, syndicated facilities and loan restructurings.