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Nathan Powell

Nathan Powell

Asia-Pacific 2026

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About

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Practice Areas

Asset Finance; Banking and Finance; Corporate; Debt Capital Markets; Derivatives; Equity Capital Markets; Fund Finance; Islamic Finance; Leveraged Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Real Estate Finance; Regulatory; Structured Finance; Sustainable Finance; Tax

Career

Nathan is a partner based in Ogier's Hong Kong office and is Global Head of Corporate legal services. He has a broad corporate finance practice with particular expertise in using BVI, Cayman and Jersey companies for capital markets, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), consortium acquisitions, private equity structures and joint ventures. He is part of Ogier's Private Equity team and specialises in downstream Corporate advisory – acquisitions, investments and exits. He also has a strong focus on bank financing and restructurings.

Nathan is also part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency team. He specialises in refinancings, corporate restructuring and reorganisations, member and creditor schemes of arrangement and investor and shareholder rights and actions. He also has experience of bond restructurings.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in:

1999 - England and Wales

2009 - Jersey

2011 - British Virgin Islands

Nathan is a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Asia & Pacific

Offshore: Corporate & Finance including Investment Funds - Asia-Pacific Region

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial

Nathan Powell heads the global corporate legal team. He is well regarded for his broad expertise in the corporate and finance sphere, offering BVI and Cayman law advice on debt capital markets, M&A, IPOs and financing matters.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Nathan Powell is the ultimate and final authority on all matters Cayman and BVI law in Hong Kong. He is super responsive, commercially astute and has one of the sharpest legal brains in the market.

    Offshore: Corporate & Finance including Investment FundsChambers Asia & Pacific
  • It is a pleasure to work with Nathan. He is responsive, and his advice is pragmatic and user-friendly.

    Offshore: Corporate & Finance including Investment FundsChambers Asia & Pacific

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