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The 2022 competition represents the 11th series of the World Triathlon Championships, with Bermuda hosting the semi-finals on Sunday 6 November before the finals are held in Abu Dhabi at the end of November ...

AfriTin aims to become the tech-metal champion of Africa with an expanding portfolio of tin production and other tech-metal development assets across Namibia. Proceeds from this fundraising will enable the firm to accelerate its business strategy to develop lithium and tantalum pilot plants and further expand its projects at Uis and Brandberg.The Carey Olsen team was led by partner, Tony Lane and included senior associate Colin Calvert and associate, Daniel Long ...

Islands provides insurance products and services to Channel Islands residents, private clients, corporates, and local businesses and Hepburns is a Channel Islands based insurance brokerage providing products and services to corporate businesses, professional practices, financial institutions and local companies.The combined group will employ more than 180 people across the Channel Islands ...

In addition to the Tier 1 practice rankings for the firm's offices in Guernsey, Jersey and London, 15 lawyers were named in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame (which identifies individuals who have been recognised for continued outstanding performance and praise from clients), 7 were named as 'next generation partners', hinting at further growth on the horizon and 21 were identified as 'rising stars' in the legal profession in their jurisdictions ...

Ikigai was established to acquire companies with a specific focus on sustainability and ESG strategy as part of their core business. Consideration for an acquisition will likely be funded through the issuance of ordinary shares or convertible debt securities to the shareholders of the acquisition as well as capital raised through admission ...

The Fund has raised US$350 million in commitments and aims to expand Telstra Ventures' diversified portfolio of technology focused companies, offering entrepreneurs access to revenue growth and accelerated global reach. The Carey Olsen team advising on the Guernsey legal and regulatory aspects of the Fund's establishment comprised partner David Crosland and counsel Andrew Tually ...

Established as a Jersey Private Fund (JPF), Volcano Investment recently held its first close and has a fundraising target of US$100 million. The fund's objective is to build a diversified portfolio of high growth potential companies (both early and late stage) across a range of sectors, including those involving disruptive technology such as decentralised finance technology, robotics, electric vehicles, information storage, fintech, and blockchain technology ...

The acquisition was effected by way of a Cayman Islands merger between Fulham and a merger subsidiary of Graycliff with Fulham surviving the merger.  Graycliff is a private equity group managing over US$1 billion in investments with a focus on lower middle-market US companies.Fulham is a global supplier of cost-efficient power and lighting solutions across multiple technology types and systems ...

Described as the 'definitive annual list of leading young private client practitioners in the UK and Crown Dependencies', the 2022 eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35 has recognised 35 men and 35 women as rising stars of the private wealth advisory sector.Having earlier in the year featured as part of the Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35, Dean is one of six individuals from offshore law firms to also be selected for the UK edition ...

The Fund will invest in a broad basket of digital assets across global cryptocurrency markets and exchanges, both centralised and decentralised. The investment manager will base its trading decisions on data generated from artificial intelligence trading agents trained via reinforcement learning processes ...

Caitlin joined the Jersey dispute resolution and litigation practice in 2019 and advises on a wide range of civil and commercial disputes, including company disputes; contractual disputes; shareholder, investor and funds disputes; contentious trust issues and debt-recovery and insolvency matters. Prior to joining Carey Olsen, Caitlin trained at onshore firm Dentons. Caitlin was recently named the Rising Star in Law at the Jersey Finance Rising Star awards ...

In total, 47 Carey Olsen lawyers are featured in the latest set of rankings, which serves as the only legal directory solely focused on recognising law firms and individuals based on financial and corporate transactional work.From those recognised, Carey Olsen has six individuals considered to be 'Market Leaders', 23 'Highly Regarded', one 'Rising Star Partner', nine 'Notable Practitioners', six 'Rising Stars' and two 'Expert Consultants' ...

Both have been with the corporate services provider, a member of the Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited group of companies, since its launch in August 2020.Susie, formerly Carey Olsen Services chief governance and operations officer, has worked in the corporate services industry for more than 25 years and is a Chartered Governance Professional, a Chartered Secretary and a Certified Compliance Professional ...

ESR is the largest real asset manager in Asia Pacific. In partnership with Chinachem, a leading property developer in Hong Kong SAR, ESR plans to develop a seven-story facility on the site to answer the growing demand for storage space driven by the rise of e-commerce in the region.The Carey Olsen team representing the club of lenders comprised corporate and finance partner James Webb, counsel Dan Moore, and associate Calvin Lee ...

ALB has selected the best disputes practitioners based on the prolific nature of their cases, exemplary client recommendations and market feedback. All lawyers featured are either based in Asia or a significant volume of their work is related to Asian jurisdictions.James and Jeremy's inclusion in the list follows their respective recognitions in the recent ALB Offshore Client Choice List for 2022 ...

The companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding in connection with the proposed merger (the MoU). Pursuant to the MoU, and in accordance with applicable French law, the parties have agreed to initiate a consultation with the social and economic committee (comité social et économique) of Biolog-id concerning the proposed merger ...

Transocean Ltd. is a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells and operates the highest specification floating offshore drilling fleet in the world. Inteliwell's mission is to decrease drilling times through rig automation and streamlining of the well construction process using new processes and tools driven by artificial intelligence ...

James advises on all aspects of cross-border insolvency and contentious commercial matters, with a particular focus on complex financial services, funds and shareholder disputes. He also has specialist experience of shareholder 'fair value' appraisal petitions issued under Section 238 of the Cayman Islands Companies Act. He is a Fellow of INSOL International.Prior to joining Carey Olsen, James worked in the financial markets disputes practice of Dentons in London ...

The annual honours are ALB's biggest and longest-running awards in Asia and are an opportunity for the legal industry to pay tribute to outstanding performance by private practitioners and in-house teams working in Hong Kong SAR.This recognition follows on from the publication of ALBs prestigious Offshore Client Choice list, which included Hong Kong partner Jeremy Lightfoot and Singapore partner James Noble alongside 13 other outstanding lawyers operating in the Asia market ...

Ice'ces, who in September will begin the second year of her Bachelor of Law with Business degree at The University of Law in Birmingham, previously studied at The Berkeley Institute in Bermuda. As part of the scholarship, Ice'ces has been awarded a grant which will support her studies abroad through the duration of her degree. She has also joined the firm for a four-week placement this summer where she will gain experience by working alongside both the trusts and corporate teams ...

Founded in 2013, Geopagos is a white label infrastructure software service that provides clients with an end-to-end solution for launching or scaling their payment acceptance. Through Geopagos, businesses can acquire and facilitate card payments to their own clients. The Carey Olsen team advising Geopagos on the Cayman Islands law aspects of its fundraising, alongside onshore counsel Gunderson Dettmer, comprised partner Alistair Russell and associate Evan Stitt ...

The Fund's investment strategy is global with a relative focus on the Greater China region. It will seek to obtain sustainable returns by using a long/short equity strategy with a research-intensive approach. Working alongside lead counsel Sidley Austin LLP, the Carey Olsen team advising Spathiphy on all Cayman Islands legal and regulatory aspects of the launch was led by partner Michael Padarin, assisted by senior legal manager Eason Huang ...

The awards, now in their third year, are designed to recognise future leaders and celebrate the achievements of talented, young individuals from across Jersey's financial services industry. This year's ceremony was held at the Royal Jersey Showground and saw winners named across 14 categories. More than 150 young professionals were nominated for the awards, of which 42 were shortlisted by the panel of independent judges ...

Securing the 25-year lease means Jersey Cricket can now press forward with its plans to create first-class facilities for the sport in the island from a permanent home, The Jersey National Cricket Centre, which is set to be opened tomorrow [3 August] by the Bailiff of Jersey, Sir Timothy Le Cocq. The Carey Olsen team advising Jersey Cricket on the lease comprised partner Chris Philpott and senior associate Lyndsay Houlette ...

Launched in 2000 by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies to voluntarily align their strategies and operations with the organisation's Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption and to undertake actions that advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals ...