Led by a senior team of experienced offshore lawyers and located in the heart of one of the world’s largest financial centres, Harneys London opened in 2002 and services a strong base of clients in the UK and throughout Europe. The firm’s London lawyers provide a full range of offerings across all practice areas and specialisms.
Managing Partner
+- Harneys has a large London office for an offshore firm, staffed by lawyers who have lived and worked in the offshore jurisdictions in which they practice (unlike many BVI lawyers in UK and Channel Islands). The fact that Harneys is the only one of the major offshore firms that was founded and headquartered in BVI means it still is the go-to firm for BVI work.
In 1960, a lawyer named Harold Harney set up shop on a small island in the Caribbean. It was the only legal practice on the island of Tortola and the first of its kind that the British Virgin Islands had ever seen. This is how Harneys, today a law firm with a sister fiduciary business, employing more than 500 people in over 10 locations around the world, came to be.
We are a global offshore law firm with entrepreneurial thinking. Experts in BVI, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Bermuda, Anguilla and Jersey law, our service is built around professionalism, personal service, and rapid response.
Harneys is a multi-talented offering capable of assisting clients with commercial contract elements of large multinational acquisitions, divestments and mergers. The law firm additionally furnishes advice on corporate restructuring and tax issues. The team also acts for clients on financial law matters, such as project finance and debt restructuring. The lawyers are highly experienced in syndicated financing and refinancing transactions.