Greg Boyd

Practice Areas

Greg is a Partner in the Financial Services and Regulatory team. He is a specialist in cross-border corporate and finance transactions with particular expertise in using the progressive corporate laws of the BVI to protect investment into emerging markets thereby promoting project viability.

Greg works with a broad spectrum of clients that includes financial institutions, public and private businesses, private equity funds, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and start-ups.

He collaborates with international clients on cross-border transactions spanning seed and series capital raising rounds, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), corporate reorganisations, IPOs and take privates. In addition to advising on market-leading transactions, he works to maximise investment and sustainability using the BVI Company Law and BVI Corporate Law to attract multinational investment and reduce corporate risk. Over the years, he has advised many multilateral lending agencies, development financial institutions and private equity firms on their emerging market and frontier market investments.

Greg has strong expertise in M&A, joint ventures, shareholding arrangements, public and private equity, group restructurings and secured financings, having advised on many of the BVI's ground-breaking (and record-breaking) transactions.

Career

Greg is one of the BVI’s most experienced transactional lawyers with more than 15 years' experience in BVI law and more than 20 years of cross-border corporate finance law experience.

He originally qualified as a lawyer in South Africa. He then moved to London and requalified as a solicitor of England & Wales where he practised as a banking and finance lawyer during his six-year tenure with Baker & McKenzie. He relocated to the BVI in 2006.

Professional Memberships

Greg is a member of the Law Society of England & Wales (non-practising) and the BVI Bar Association.