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Offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes has started the year with the announcement of three promotions to its global partnership.
Helen Wyatt and John Rochester, from the Guernsey Corporate Practice, and Danielle Roman, from the Hong Kong Finance Practice, will join the partnership with effect from 1 February.
Helen and John have both played significant roles in the development and growth of the highly rated Corporate Practice in Guernsey. Their appointments, which follow the hire at the end of last year of experienced partner Caroline Chan, (previously with Ogier), take the number of partners based in the Guernsey Corporate practice to six. Across the Channel Islands, the firm's 25 partner transactional practice is larger than any of its rivals with more top tier directory rankings and consistently involved in the most complex and high value transactions.
Jonathan Rigby, Global Managing Partner, said: "Our all equity partnership model is unique amongst the major offshore law firms and underpins our global, 'one firm' approach. It promotes a highly collaborative culture - across practice groups and locations - where the interests of our clients always come first. With almost 60 equity partners globally, Mourant Ozannes is by far the largest true partnership of lawyers offshore. The latest promotions come at the end of another year of impressive growth for our business, with revenue up 22% year-on-year. Helen, John and Danielle are joining us at a very exciting time."
Robert Shepherd, Senior Partner, commented: "At Mourant Ozannes we believe strongly in the importance of nurturing and rewarding talent from within the business. Helen, John and Danielle are key members of the Mourant Ozannes team and have contributed significantly to the success and growth of their practices and of the firm over recent years. We are delighted to welcome them to the partnership."
Helen, who joined the firm immediately after law school, qualifying as an English solicitor in 2004 and a Guernsey Advocate in 2007, has broad commercial and corporate law experience advising clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and IPOs, the establishment and restructuring of investment schemes, financing and corporate transactions and has a particular interest in financial services regulatory matters. Helen is the secretary of the Guernsey Commercial Bar Association.
John has a wide ranging practice covering banking and finance work as well as mainstream corporate and commercial transactions. John regularly advises major international banks and corporates on real estate structuring, property finance, M&A, private equity and corporate reorganisations. John trained as a solicitor at Linklaters in London and Hong Kong, before spending four years with a large offshore firm in the British Virgin Islands (where he was admitted as a solicitor in 2005). John then joined Mourant Ozannes in Jersey in 2009 before relocating to the Guernsey office in 2014.
