Ogier (law firm)

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1 Overview
2 Offices
3 Legal and Fiduciary Practice Areas
4 Expansion
5 External links

[edit] Overview

Ogier & Le Masurier, changed its name to Ogier in 2005.

Recognised as one of the world's leading providers of offshore legal and fiduciary services, Ogier is the only offshore firm with significant and well established practices in each of the four major offshore jurisdictions - BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey.

Through a global network of offices (see below) Ogier covers all time zones and key financial markets including the rapidly growing Asian and Chinese markets.

The group employs over 750 professional and support staff worldwide.

[edit] Offices

Ogier operates in nine jurisdictions around the world, namely the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, London, Montevideo and New Zealand.

[edit] Legal and Fiduciary Practice Areas

Legal Practice Areas

Banking, Corporate & Commercial, Derivatives, Employee Benefits, Employment Law, Investment Funds, Listing Services, Litigation, Private Client & Trusts, Property Law, Real Estate and Structured Finance.

Fiduciary Practice Areas

Corporate Services, Employee Benefits, Investment Funds, Private Client & Trusts, Real Estate and Structured Finance.

[edit] Expansion

Ogier is sometimes pointed to as the law firm which started the multi-jurisdictional trend amongst offshore law firms when it acquired Cayman Islands firm, Boxalls, in 2003. That claim is disputed by Conyers Dill & Pearman who assert that they were the first multi-jurisdictional offshore law firm when they moved a single one of their lawyers to the British Virgin Islands in 1996, although several Channel Islands firms had offices in both Jersey and Guernsey by then. Whether or not one accepts the claim, the Ogier-Boxalls merger was certainly the first of a number of mergers between law firms of different jurisdictions, particularly between Jersey and the Cayman Islands. Ogier would later also acquire its presence in the British Virgin Islands, Montevideo and Hong Kong by way of merger with British Virgin Islands firm, WSmiths.