Jeffrey Kirk

Practice Areas

Corporate, Banking & Asset Finance, Corporate Finance, Funds & Investment Services, Insurance & Reinsurance, Islamic Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Private Client & Trusts

Career

Jeffrey Kirk is the managing partner of the Appleby British Virgin Islands office and he leads the BVI office Corporate Practice Group. He advises on public and private M&A, capital markets, banking & finance, FinTech including digital assets, investment funds & services, private equity, (re)insurance and other corporate matters. He is also the global head of the Appleby Islamic Finance Practice Group. Jeffrey has worked in the Appleby London, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Cayman Islands and BVI offices and has extensive experience advising on the laws of the BVI, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

His pre-Appleby experience includes being in practice at leading London law firms; in-house counsel at Lloyd´s of London and his South African experience includes practicing in a leading regional South African law firm, being in-house counsel at an international asset management group and general counsel for a leading underwriting firm.

Professional Memberships

His memberships include being a member of the Hong Kong Insurance Law Association, the Law Society of Hong Kong (registered foreign lawyer), the Law Society of England & Wales (non-practicing) and the Law Society of the Northern Provinces (South Africa) (non-practicing), the Bermuda Bar Association and he is admitted to practice as a barrister and attorney in Bermuda and as a solicitor and notary public in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) and is a member of the BVI Bar Association.

Publications

Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds – The British Virgin Islands Option

Data Protection Guide 2022: British Virgin Islands

BVI – Protecting Personal Data: Are You Prepared?

The role of Private Equity in economic recovery from Covid-19

Safe havens: Temporary relocation and residency by investment in Appleby’s jurisdictions

Investment Funds and ESG Investing – the Appleby perspective

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACS) make a comeback

In the eye of the storm: recap of Hurricane Irma in the BVI

BVI ITA publishes Draft Economic Substance Code

Economic substance requirements in the British Virgin Islands

Personal

Jeffrey is a frequent speaker and panelist at seminars and conferences including AFSIC (Africa Financial Services Investment Conference, London), Business BVI Outlook, the Fund Forum Asia, Islamic Finance News Hong Kong Road Show, Business Bermuda and the Islamic Real Estate World Asia Conference. He is often interviewed and invited to write articles on all aspects of offshore finance, hedge funds, (re)insurance, SPVs and other corporate issues and has contributed to numerous publications including The Lawyer, the Hedge Fund Journal, China Offshore, Banking Today, Bloomberg; Asia Insurance Review, Middle East Insurance Review, Legal Week, Business Today, the Bermuda Royal Gazette and the China Business Law Journal. He is a co-author of the BVI chapter of the Asset Management Review.