Ogier has completed its merger with WSmiths to create a new offshore law firm.
Ogier now has a presence in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, London, Montevideo and New Zealand.
Ogier claims to have pioneered offshore multi-jurisdictional growth when it combined with Boxalls in Cayman in 2003, to produce the first transatlantic merger of offshore firms.
“Since announcing the merger with WSmiths back in October we have very much been working as one group, integrating services and procedures and briefing our clients on our expanded capability,” says chairman Jonathan White. “This now been formalised by the legal merger of the two businesses.”
“We are delighted by how well the merger has gone, feedback from our clients has been very positive as they see the opportunities arising from working with a truly multi jurisdictional group,” adds Duncan Smith, one of the founding partners of WSmiths and now Managing Partner of Ogier’s offices in Hong Kong.