James Gaudin

I am the Office Managing Partner in Jersey and a partner within Appleby’s Corporate department. I specialise in all areas of offshore corporate, finance and restructuring work within Appleby’s strong equity and capital markets practice.

My extensive experience covers banking and asset finance, real estate investment structures, public and private debt and equity issues, securitisations, repackagings and initial public offerings, as well as structures involving Jersey limited partnerships and unit trusts. More recently I have advised on some of the largest corporate restructurings to have occurred in the Jersey market. I also advise banks and other global financial institutions in relation to the Jersey elements of complex cross-border insolvencies. The majority of my time is spent on real estate finance and funds.

I became a partner at Appleby in 2011. Prior to joining Appleby in August 2010, I spent six years in the capital markets and structured finance team at a Jersey-based offshore firm, before joining another major offshore firm where I was a group partner and head of corporate in Jersey. Before returning to Jersey, I worked with Hemmington-Scott in London for four years, latterly as head of treasury and banking. I qualified as a barrister in 1996 and have been a Jersey advocate since 2005. I have not always been a lawyer and spent years as a broker and Investment banker with Hemington-Scott, Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro.

I apply a pragmatic and commercial approach to the transactions my team undertake on behalf of clients. Working with Simon Tait, Kevin McQuillan, Paul Worsnop and Chris Spencer in the Jersey corporate team, the ethos of our team is one driven by a desire to deliver for clients. My affable and calm persona supports the delivery of this client-centric approach to legal excellence.