Jeremy Leese
Global Guide 2024
Band 2 : Corporate & Finance
Band 2
About
Provided by Jeremy Leese
Practice Areas
Jeremy Leese is a Director of MJM and Head of its Corporate and Finance Department. His areas of experience include initial public offerings, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, shipping and aviation finance, advising on offshore structures, project financing, banking transactions, group restructuring and general corporate work. He is also a regular contributor to, and author of, the Bermuda sections of guides in relation to Mergers & Acquisitions, Ship Finance and Secured Finance.
Career
After Oxford, Jeremy worked for Clifford Chance, Pinsents and Eversheds in the UK, before working for Appleby in Bermuda, Hong Kong, Jersey and the BVI, as well as a spell with Ogier in Jersey. He returned to Bermuda with MJM after a short period as Head of Corporate at a firm in Anguilla, In addition to being called to the Bermuda Bar, Jeremy has been admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI Circuit) and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Anguilla Circuit) (all now non-practising).
Professional Memberships
Jeremy is a member of the Bermuda Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales and, previously, the BVI Bar Association and the Anguilla Bar Association.
Chambers Review
Global
Jeremy Leese leads the corporate team within MJM. A respected figure in Bermuda, he has considerable experience advising clients on capital markets and M&A transactions as well as shipping finance matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He knows how to get things done and is proactive."
"He knows how to get things done and is proactive."