Anthony Oakes

Practice Areas

Asset Finance; Banking and Finance; Debt Capital Markets; Derivatives; Fund Finance; Islamic Finance; Leveraged Finance; Private Equity; Real Estate Finance; Regulatory; Restructuring and Insolvency; Structured Finance; Corporate; Islamic Finance; Sustainable Finance

Career

Tony is a partner based in Ogier's Hong Kong office and is the head of Ogier’s finance practice in Asia. He provides BVI and Cayman legal advice in relation to a broad array of financing transactions and restructurings. He also has a strong focus on corporate work - including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity structures and capital markets transactions.

Recognised as one of the top offshore lawyers in Asia by both Asian Legal Business and Asia Business Law Journal, Tony has advised on a number of landmark finance transactions. One example is Indonesia's national airline's US$500 million sukuk - the first non-sovereign USD Sukuk out of Indonesia and the first Asia Pacific national flag carrier to successfully issue a USD benchmark bond on a standalone basis since Qantas Airways’ USD bond offering.

As part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency team, Tony has worked extensively on refinancings, corporate restructuring and reorganisations, schemes of arrangement and investor and shareholder rights and actions. He also has experience of bond restructurings. Tony advised on the successful restructuring of Mongolian Mining Corporation, a significant and complex matter named Restructuring Deal of the Year by IFLR in 2018.

Tony is also part of Ogier's Private Equity team. He acts for private equity sponsors and lenders to them, on financing transactions, including cross-border leveraged and acquisition financing transactions, margin loans, minority "back leverage" financings, mezzanine financings, fund-level financings, syndicated facilities and loan restructurings.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in:

2015 - British Virgin Islands

2013 - England and Wales (non practising)

2008 - Hong Kong (non practising)

1992 - New South Wales, Australia

Tony is a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Languages Spoken

Tony speaks English and Mandarin.