Offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes has announced the appointment of three Partners to its global partnership.
Stephen Alexander and Carla Benest (both pictured), from the Jersey office and Chinyin Johnston from the London office will join the partnership from 1 February.
Stephen joined Mourant Ozannes in 2014 and is based in the Jersey office. He has broad experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters and regularly advises in relation to a wide range of commercial disputes, trust issues, investment fund matters, and insolvencies and restructurings.
Stephen qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2004, a Cayman Islands Attorney-At-Law in 2008 and a Jersey advocate in 2016.
Carla joined Mourant Ozannes in 2007 and is also based in Jersey. She is an experienced employment lawyer in contentious and non-contentious employment matters including tribunal and Royal Court proceedings, discrimination issues, executive appointments and terminations and employment aspects of business reorganisations and corporate transactions.
Her practice also includes relocations of businesses and HNWIs to Jersey, advising on data privacy and protection requirements including governance and control, privacy policies and subject access requests as well as advising on all aspects of Jersey's competition law.
Chinyin joined Mourant Ozannes in 2015 and is based in the London office. She is a specialist corporate finance lawyer, with experience advising on BVI and Cayman Islands law aspects of banking and finance transactions.
She advises banks, borrowers and arrangers on a broad range of matters, including acquisition and leveraged finance, fund finance, asset finance, debt restructuring, derivatives and structured products, insolvency and security enforcement, project finance and real estate finance.