Biography

Thomas Dugdale

Counsel | Funds & Asset Management | London

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Thomas Dugdale

Counsel | Funds & Asset Management | London

+44 20 3752 3632 thomas.dugdale@harneys.com

Expertise

Funds & Asset Management , Digital Assets & Blockchain , Corporate

Biography

Thomas Dugdale leads our non-contentious offshore Investment Funds team in the UK. He is also a member of our broader Transactional team in London and advises clients on offshore investment funds and corporate matters.

Tom has over 14 years of experience advising on all aspects of offshore funds, from launch to termination and both contentious and non-contentious restructurings. He specialises in all types of funds, from hedge to hybrids, crypto and private equity, specifically in their formation, maintenance, and restructuring.

Before joining Harneys, Tom was an associate in the corporate team at McGuireWoods London LLP. He then spent

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Before joining Harneys, Tom was an associate in the corporate team at McGuireWoods London LLP. He then spent over four years in our Hong Kong office before relocating to our London office. Today, Tom's expertise includes broad corporate transactional experience, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, equity capital markets, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings.

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Experience

Investment Funds and Regulatory

Advising as predominantly lead but also supporting counsel on numerous offshore fund launches structured as either standalone corporate funds, segregated portfolio companies, partnerships, or master feeder structures.
Advising on the contentious restructuring of a US$1 billion offshore fund following the suspension of redemptions and changes of service providers.
Advising the world's first private equity fund investing in rare single-malt whisky from structuring and launch to successful wind-down.
Advising on the structuring and launch of an offshore fund investing solely in fine wines.
Advising on the contentious restructuring of a US$800 million investment into a series of offshore funds.
Advising an offshore investment fund as borrower in a fund finance deal worth approximately US$50 million.
Advising Shariah-compliant funds from an offshore perspective.
Advising an offshore SPC fund platform with over 30 funds, each structured as a separate segregated portfolio.
Advising and successfully guiding an offshore manager through an AML/CFT investigation by an offshore regulator.
Advising on the launch of offshore investment management entities, including BVI-approved managers.

Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity Capital Markets, and general Corporate

Advising on the listing of Tapir Holdings Ltd. (THL) and Heather Venture Holdings Ltd, each a BVI company, on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) and advising on THL’s subsequent acquisition of a 10 per cent stake in Rendeavour Holding Ltd for a total consideration of US$87 million.
Advising on the acquisition of Applicant Insight Inc by Hawley Group Ltd, a BVI company listed on the BSX, for US$30 million.
Advising Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited, then listed on AIM and the BSX, on its acquisition, by way of statutory merger, of Normandy Limited (then listed on the BSX).
Advising on all offshore corporate elements of a complex multi-jurisdictional contentious restructuring of a North African oil services group.
Advising on the re-domiciliation of Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited, then listed on AIM and the Bermuda Stock Exchange, from Belize to the BVI.
Advising on numerous mergers and acquisitions for both buyers and sellers.
Advising venture capital clients on series financing rounds, including those involving complex corporate structuring.
Advising on numerous other re-domiciliations, statutory mergers, restructurings, liquidations, and strike-offs.