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• Advised Capri Holdings Limited, a BVI company listed on the NYSE and owner of Michael Kors, Versace, and Jimmy Choo, on what would have been one of the largest BVI mergers by market size.
  
• Advised long-standing client Despegar, Latin America’s leading online travel company, on its acquisition by Prosus, a leading global technology company.
  
• Advised BBB Foods on a secondary offering of its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
  

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• Advised ACG, a SPAC incorporated in the BVI, on a successful US$500 million de-SPAC.
  
• Advised H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm on its acquisition of Segers Aero Corporation.
  
• Advised Berachain on its consensus mechanism.
  

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• Advising Biohaven Ltd on US$755 million of equity raising.
  
• Advising Critical Metals Corp on its successful business combination, resulting in its listing on the NASDAQ with a market cap of US$838 million.
  
• Advising Prosus N.V. in relation to its successful take-private of NYSE-listed Despegar.com, Corp in a transaction valued at approximately US$1.7 billion.
  

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• Advised Gerdau Metaldom in connection with the BVI aspects of the acquisition by INICIA of all shares held by Brazilian steel producer Gerdau, in Gerdau Diaco and Gerdau Metaldom Corp.
  
• Acted on Etoro Group Ltd’s previous initial public offering under which Etoro would combine with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) named FinTech Acquisition Corp.
  
• Acting as BVI counsel to OANDA on the proposed sale of OANDA Global Markets Limited (a regulated entity in the BVI) to FTMO Group, including both corporate and regulatory support.
  

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• Acted for the Liquidators of Three Arrows Capital, Ltd in respect of the sale of a significant interest in Deribit, the large cryptocurrency options exchange, to Coinbase, the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange.
  
• Advised Cetus on its US$230 million merger with MKD Technology Inc. (MKD), which closed in July 2024.
  
• Advising MTN, Africa’s largest mobile telecommunications provider, on the BVI aspects of the separation of its fintech businesses across 13 African jurisdictions from its GSM businesses into a new holding structure.
  

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• Acting as BVI counsel to the FTX Debtors, who formerly operated a leading cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund valued at USD 32 billion, on various matters relating to its Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, including a corporate restructuring establishing FTX group’s ultimate beneficial owner.
  
• Representing Ripple Labs Inc, a major player in the Fintech and crypto industry, as British Virgin Islands counsel on its acquisition of Hidden Road, a leading multi-asset prime brokerage firm.
  
• Advising gene-therapy biotech company Medera Inc on its proposed reverse merger with NASDAQ-listed BVI company Keen Vision Acquisition Corp, which will contribute to the combined company’s implied initial enterprise value of USD 622.6 million.
  

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• Advised Bitstamp Ltd. and its major shareholder, investment firm NXMH, on the c.USD200 million sale of the cryptocurrency exchange to Robinhood Markets, Inc, a U.S.-listed financial services company.
  
• Advised Ondo Finance on structuring, implementation, and regulatory compliance in respect of yield-generating ERC20 tokens, backed by short-term US treasuries and other securities.
  
• Advised BitGo on BVI legal and regulatory matters relating to the business activities of the BitGo group.
  

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• Advised Grant Thornton Advisers LLC and funds managed by New Mountain Capital LLC on the BVI law aspects of its recent business combination with Grant Thornton UAE.
  
• Advised on EQT Infrastructure VI fund’s acquisition of Seven Seas Water Group, which operates more than 220 plants across the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America, from a leading global private infrastructure investment platform.
  

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• Advised Cinven Limited in connection with the acquisition of Grant Thornton UK LLP (including Grant Thornton (British Virgin Islands) Limited).
  
• Advised EnQuest PLC on the purchase of Premier Oil Vietnam Limited and a Dutch entity from Harbour Energy.
  

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• Advising on a joint venture structured through a BVI segregated portfolio company. The purpose of the joint venture is to fund a palm oil processing facility operated by the JV subsidiarity in Nicaragua.
  
• Advising Aura Minerals Inc on the BVI law aspects of its acquisition of Bluestone Resources Inc, the owner of the Cerro Blanco Project, a near-surface gold deposit located in Guatemala.
  
• Advising a well known US investment management company focused on the blockchain and digital asset space on facilitating a $250million investment into a digital assets fund by a LATAM pension fund.
  

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• Obtaining a Trade license to allow Caribbean Airlines to operate flights in the BVI.
  

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• Acted for Regal Rexnord corporation on the sale of its industrial motors and generators business to WEG (Jiangsu) Electric Equipment Co Ltd.
  

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