Band 3
Provided by Christopher Jones
Asset Finance, Banking and Finance, Corporate, Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives, ESG - Environmental Social and Governance, Equity Capital Markets, Fund Finance, Islamic Finance, Listing Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Real Estate, Regulatory, Restructuring and Corporate Recovery, Structured Finance, Sustainable Finance
Christopher advises financial institutions, alternative lenders, investment funds and corporate clients on a broad range of multi-jurisdictional transactions. As a partner in the Guernsey Banking and Finance team, he has extensive experience in respect of a wide range of banking and finance matters, including real estate finance, fund finance, asset finance, event driven secured and unsecured financing, derivatives, corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, listings and regulation. As the lead non-contentious partner in the firm's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Corporate Recovery Guernsey team, his practice covers all non-contentious aspects of restructuring and reorganisations, including loan workouts, schemes of arrangement and issues relating to security creation, maintenance and enforcement. He regularly advises on complex cross border reorganisations of regulated and non-regulated structures.
He joined Ogier in January 2010 from international law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Slaughter and May.
Recent transactions include advising a consortium consisting of Apax, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, on the Guernsey financing aspects of the US$3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat. Christopher also regularly advises global investment banks in respect of industry standard documentation produced by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the International Capital Market Association and the International Securities Lending Association.
Christopher is an advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey, a solicitor in England and Wales and a member of the Bar of New York.
Provided by Chambers
Christopher Jones is a finance specialist who has experience working with large banks on the full range of their needs and is notable for his expertise in relation to asset finance. He also serves as Ogier's head of banking and finance for the Guernsey practice.
Provided by Chambers
Chris is a very user-friendly, pragmatic and approachable banking lawyer. I have no qualms recommending him to anyone.
Christopher is an excellent lawyer.
Chris is excellent and my go-to lawyer in Guernsey for all real estate finance matters.
Christopher is well regarded for his finance work.
Chris is a very user-friendly, pragmatic and approachable banking lawyer. I have no qualms recommending him to anyone.
Christopher is an excellent lawyer.
Chris is excellent and my go-to lawyer in Guernsey for all real estate finance matters.
Christopher is well regarded for his finance work.