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Peter Cockhill by Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:

An office in Hong Kong was not close enough to mainland China for specialist offshore law firm Ogier so they recently opened an office in Shanghai.

Peter Cockhill, chief executive officer and managing partner of the firm, explained their reasoning. "As an international firm with a focus on corporate, funds, finance and private wealth, legal and fiduciary services, we need to be accessible to the world’s financial centrers. Shanghai is the financial capital of the world’s fastest growing large economy. We need to be there."

The new office is expected to offer Ogier’s the opportunity to expand their work in the capital markets, private equity, investment funds and structured finance fields in which they specialize. "Chinese clients will particularly benefit from Ogier’s Hong Kong office in close proximity and from which we offer advice in each of BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey law" said Cockhill.

Ogier is already the only offshore law firm in Asia with lawyers qualified to offer advice on the key jurisdictions of the BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey. "A presence in Shanghai enables us to get closer to clients and prospective clients than is possible by servicing Shanghai from another Asian office" commented Cockhill.

Asked whether China has peaked in terms of its extraordinary growth, Cockhill said: "While there has been some softening of Asian markets following the global financ......................

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