Colin Riegels is a partner in the Transactional team based in our London office. He was the former managing partner of the BVI office and served as the global head of our Banking and Finance practice, advising on a wide range of credit and security issues. His experience relates to all aspects of offshore financing but with an emphasis on derivatives, netting and close-out, insolvency, and security enforcement. He has also done extensive work on complex issues relating to company and partnership law, and in relation to the law of confidentiality. Before joining us, Colin practised as a barrister in London. He served as a judicial assist ...
Colin Riegels is a partner in the Transactional team based in our London office. He was the former managing partner of the BVI office and served as the global head of our Banking and Finance practice, advising on a wide range of credit and security issues.
His experience relates to all aspects of offshore financing but with an emphasis on derivatives, netting and close-out, insolvency, and security enforcement. He has also done extensive work on complex issues relating to company and partnership law, and in relation to the law of confidentiality.
Before joining us, Colin practised as a barrister in London. He served as a judicial assistant to Lord Woolf MR in the English Court of Appeal, and taught law at Oxford University. He has worked on some of the largest financing transactions involving BVI vehicles, including a number of multi-billion US dollar debt financing transactions and joint ventures.
Colin also serves as general editor of British Virgin Islands Commercial Law. He regularly writes for textbooks and periodicals and is a notary public of the British Virgin Islands.
