Practice Areas
We advise the world’s most significant banks and financial institutions, and regularly act for borrowers and issuers. Areas of speciality include trade finance, debt restructuring, property and acquisition finance, international debt issues, and derivatives transactions.
We specialise in equity related issues and frequently advise on complex cross border transactions. Our team of lawyers has significant depth of experience in advising on joint ventures, private equity transactions, listings, mergers and acquisitions.
We work with managers of hedge funds and private equity to establish and structure investment vehicles in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. We provide specialised advice on fund formation, restructuring, administration, and regulatory issues.
We provide expert advice on matters related to taxation, regulation and supervision in Cyprus and the BVI.
Our experienced litigation practice is at the forefront of the legal practice in the BVI and is the fastest-growing in the Cayman Islands. Our areas of expertise include fraud and asset tracing, insolvency, fund and trust litigation.
Our trusts team specialises in the creation of all types of BVI and Cayman Islands trusts with particular emphasis on the creation of trusts to hold family trading and investment companies. Through our associated private wealth business we also provide a broad range of BVI trust services including trust formation and administration, trustee and family office services, and administration services to Private Trust Companies.
We advise commercial, institutional and private clients, both domestic and international, in a variety of local British Virgin Islands transactional and non-transactional real estate, finance, regulatory, tax and general commercial matters.
Our intellectual property practice has a client base including multinational corporations and specialist IP firms. Our services include the registration of patents and trademarks, monitoring of trademark registrations, and advising on potential trademark infringements.
The British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands are Category 1 branches of the General Register of British Ships, and Cyprus controls one of the world's largest merchant fleets. We provide commercially sensitive legal advice on acquisition, provisional or permanent registration, parallel (bareboat) registration, the registration of new builds, transfer of ownership and transfers of existing vessels in the BVI, Cayman and Cyprus.
In addition to our core practice areas, Harneys provides geographically focussed service to clients in or investing in key emerging markets. Our Latin America, Russia, India and Asia practice groups work across departments and offices to provide service to clients which is culturally and commercially relevant. All our geographic desks are staffed by lawyers who are native language speakers and knowledgeable about the commercial environment in which our clients operate.
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