Giorgio Subiotto

Corporate; Hedge Funds; Investment Funds; Managers and Sponsors; Private Equity; Private Wealth; Regulatory; Trusts

Giorgio has been practising law with Ogier in the Cayman Islands since 2002 and has been a partner since 2006. His practice spans Ogier's Corporate, Investment Funds, and Private Wealth groups. He is the co-head of Ogier's global Latin American practice.

A large part of Giorgio's practice is investment funds, where he works on the whole life-cycle of hedge funds and closed-ended funds – private equity, venture capital, real estate – including guiding funds through stress points, such as during the 2008 financial crisis. Giorgio also acts for investors into funds and advises on the establishment and ongoing regulatory compliance of Cayman-based investment managers, investment advisers, distributors and arrangers.

His corporate practice is heavily focused on venture capital transactions, including the establishment of Cayman holding companies to support start-ups in their capital raising and international expansion, working with them on seed and later rounds of financing, and working with them on exits, either through M&A acquisition or IPO. He also represents investors into these VC structures. Other corporate work includes SPAC and de-SPAC transactions, general joint venture work and advising boards in respect of take-overs and mergers.

On the private wealth side, Giorgio has been one of the principal architects of Ogier's Cayman-based Private Wealth team since 2008. He now focuses on investment fund and corporate transactions that form part of private wealth planning and also advises clients on the full range of private wealth matters alongside Ogier's Trusts and Estates team.

What sets Giorgio's practice apart is his passion for Latin America, in particular Brazil, and he has been the driving force behind Ogier's LatAm practice. Although he acts for a number of blue chip clients in the United Sates, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Asia, Latin America is where the bulk of Giorgio's clients are based.

Giorgio is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and is a Notary Public in the Cayman Islands and a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association, the Law Society of England and Wales and the New York Bar Association. Ogier is a Platinum STEP Employer Partner.

Admitted in:

2002 - Cayman Islands

1999 - New York (non practising)

1994 - England and Wales (non practising)