Nicholas Plowman
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 3 : Offshore: Corporate & Finance including Investment Funds
Band 3
About
Provided by Nicholas Plowman
Practice Areas
Corporate, Hedge Funds, Investment Funds, Listed Funds Liquid Strategies and UCITS, Managers and Sponsors, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Real Estate, Real Estate Infrastructure and Energy Funds, Venture Capital and Special Strategy Funds
Career
Nick is the Practice Partner of Ogier in Hong Kong and the Head of Ogier's Investment Funds team in Asia. He acts for a wide variety of Asian fund managers in the private equity, long only and hedge fund space. His clients represent some of the more sophisticated and respected fund managers in Asia. Nick has been named one of the top offshore lawyers in Asia by Asian Legal Business on its Offshore Client Choice List for six consecutive years and he has also been ranked as one of the "World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers" in four editions of Euromoney's Expert Guides.
Nick joined Ogier in January 2006 from Slaughter and May, London where he practiced as a corporate M&A lawyer. He subsequently founded Ogier's Hong Kong office in February 2007. Nick's primary focus has since been on building Ogier's now significant Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands investment funds and venture capital practice in Asia. He acts for a wide variety of Asian fund managers in the private equity, long only and hedge fund space. His clients represent some of the more sophisticated and respected fund managers in Asia. Nick is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team.
Nick received his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (Asian Economic History (First Class)) from the University of Auckland.
Nick is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, the British Virgin Islands and New Zealand and is also a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Nicholas Plowman leads the investment fund practice and has considerable experience acting as Cayman and BVI law counsel on fund formation and investment mandates. He also offers regulatory advice.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nick has provided comprehensive, accurate and to-the-point advice to us for many years. He delivers on time and on budget."
"Nick has provided comprehensive, accurate and to-the-point advice to us for many years. He delivers on time and on budget."