James Twigg

Partner

Singapore

T +65 6603 1699

M +65 8511 8868

E james.twigg@walkersglobal.com

Practice Areas

James Twigg is a partner in the Corporate and Investment Funds Group of Walkers' Singapore office. He specialises in corporate transactions and has represented clients across the Asia-Pacific region on numerous mergers and acquisitions, equity capital raisings, private equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures, pre-IPO investments, US IPOs and general corporate and governance matters.

He also regularly advises investment managers and institutional investors on all aspects of hedge fund, private equity and venture capital fund formation and the establishment of co-investment and alternative investment structures.

Prior Employment Experience

Prior to joining Walkers in 2012, James worked as a corporate lawyer at Clifford Chance in Hong Kong, Skadden and Slaughter and May in London and at Chapman Tripp in New Zealand. At each of these firms, James advised a broad range of corporate, private equity and governmental clients on a variety of international and domestic transactions.

Admitted in & Qualifications

Admitted In:
Bermuda, Registered Associate
British Virgin Islands
England & Wales (not practising)
New Zealand (not practising)

Qualifications:
LLB (Honours) (First Class), University of Otago, New Zealand
BA, University of Otago, New Zealand

Other Distinctions

2022 Legal 500 Asia Pacific – noted for high-value M&A and venture capital fundraisings

News, Matters and Publications

NEWS

Walkers maintains double Tier 1 ranking in The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2023 - Walkers has maintained its position as the leading offshore law firm in Asia, with independent legal...
Walkers adds 25 Bermuda Registered Associates in Asia - Walkers adds 25 Bermuda Registered Associates in Asia: Becoming the second largest Bermuda lega...
Walkers Receives 2 Deal of the Year Awards from Asia Business Law Journal - Walkers has received two Deal of the Year awards from Asia Business Law Journal, commending our work...

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MATTERS

Walkers Advises Fullerton Healthcare on its recapitalisation by RRJ Capital via Cayman Islands merger - Walkers acted as Cayman Islands counsel to the Company in connection with the merger of Fullerton He...
Walkers advises PropertyGuru on US$1.8bn NYSE listing - Walkers acted as Cayman Islands counsel to Southeast Asia's leading property technology company Prop...
Walkers advises SC Health Corporation in its merger with Rockley Photonics and NYSE Listing - Walkers acted as Cayman Islands counsel to SC Health Corporation in its merger with Rockley Photonic...
Walkers advises PropertyGuru in its merger with a SPAC backed by Richard Li and Peter Thiel to go public - Walkers is acting as Cayman Islands counsel to Southeast Asia's leading property technology company ...
Walkers Advises bolttech in Record Series A Financing - Walkers acted as Cayman Islands counsel to bolttech, one of the fastest growing international insurt...

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ADVISORY

Bermuda Insights: Trends and Opportunities 2022 - As part of our five year anniversary celebrations of our law firm opening in Bermuda, we put togethe...
Walkers' Guide to Token Issuances, DAOs and Foundation Companies in the Cayman Islands - Since the inception of Walkers' Global Fintech Group in 2017, the virtual assets and blockchain sect...
Bermuda – An Ideal Location for International Business - This briefing explains Bermuda’s adoption of rigorous international tax and regulatory standards, ...
Offshore Perspectives - Year of the Tiger Trends 2022 - The continuing impact of Covid-19 is clearly among the big talking points for 2022, with several que...
Offshore Perspective: Updates to HK Listings Rules - SPACs and Enhanced shareholder protection Following market consultations, the Hong Kong Stock Excha...

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MEMO

Cayman Foundation Companies - Fintech - The Foundation Companies Act, 2017 (the "Act") introduced another innovative and flexible vehicle in...

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ARTICLES

Walkers advises Gogoro Inc. on NASDAQ IPO - Walkers acted as Cayman Islands counsel to Gogoro Inc., Taiwan’s largest e-scooter manufacturer an...
Private Equity Survey Report - Asia and Middle East 2021 - While 2020 was a year of challenges and contradictions in the Asian private equity (“PE”) market...
Use of Jersey Corporate Structures by Singapore Crypto Fund Managers and the Jersey-Singapore Double Taxation Agreement - Introduction Singaporean asset managers are increasingly making use of Jersey structures for the es...
Walkers Fundamentals White Paper 2020 – Regional Update: Asia - Welcome to Walkers’ 2020 Fundamentals White Paper Series, in which we discuss certain trends ident...
The Blockchain Effect on Investment Funds - Blockchain was originally considered to be the innovative technology that only supported cryptocurre...

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EVENTS

Walkers Virtual Fundamentals 2021 Seminar - Please join us on Tuesday 9 November for a live broadcast of Walkers Fundamentals where we will expl...
Walkers Virtual Fundamentals Seminar - Please join us for pre-event networking, followed by a live broadcast of Walkers Fundamentals a...
Walkers to Sponsor AIMA APAC Annual Forum 2019 - Walkers is pleased to sponsor the Alternative Investment Manager Association ("AIMA") APAC Annual Fo...
Walkers to Sponsor AIMA Singapore Seminar - Walkers (Singapore) is sponsoring the upcoming AIMA Singapore Seminar. This seminar will enable inve...

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