Tim Cone

Practice Areas

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

Career

Tim advises hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, sponsors and family offices on the establishment, regulation, corporate governance and ongoing operation of investment funds, as well as the establishment of venture capital and other funding structures.

Based in the Cayman Islands, Tim is a partner in Ogier's Investment Funds team and part of the firm's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team. He is also co-head of Ogier's Latin American practice team with a particular focus on the Brazil market, advising a broad range of clients in relation to both inward and outward investments.

Tim has extensive experience working with sponsors, asset managers, family offices and their onshore counsel advising on the establishment, regulation, corporate governance and ongoing operation of investment funds. He also regularly advises clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters.

Tim began his career as a corporate and finance solicitor at Mayne Wetherell in Auckland, New Zealand in 2010. He joined Ogier's Investment Funds team in 2014 and spent six months on secondment at Brazilian law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados in 2018.

Tim received his Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Finance and his Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2009.

He is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association and the New Zealand Law Society.

Admitted

2014 - Cayman Islands

2010 - New Zealand (non practising)