Neil McDonald is a partner based in Walkers' London office where he is a member of the firm's Global Finance and Corporate Groups.
Neil has a broad range of experience in British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Jersey law. He routinely works on cross-border structured finance, loan finance, project finance and acquisition finance transactions, as well as general corporate and commercial matters, equity financings, joint ventures, restructurings, and mergers, acquisitions and disposals.
Neil's experience includes advising:
- Royal Road Minerals Limited, a public company listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, on the British Virgin Islands law aspects of its acquisition of Colombian exploration assets from AngloGold Ashanti;
- Kingboard Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingboard Chemical Holdings Limited, on the British Virgin Islands law aspects of its acquisition (through a British Virgin Islands incorporated SPV) of KPMG's London headquarters, 15 Canada Square in Canary Wharf, for circa £400 million;
- Lloyds Bank plc on the British Virgin Islands law aspects of its senior secured financing of Cheung Kei Group's acquisition of 5 Churchill Place in London's Canary Wharf;
- Capital Partners, an investment fund, on the Jersey and British Virgin Islands law aspects of its sale of the Metropolis Shopping Centre (a major retail mall in Moscow) to Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund for US$1.2 billion;
- Altimo, the leading investment company in Russia in the field of mobile and fixed line communications, on the British Virgin Islands law aspects of the US$8.5 billion shareholder restructuring of OAO MegaFon, Russia’s second largest mobile phone operator; and
- Sberbank of Russia on the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law aspects of its US$1 billion acquisition, from Standard Bank and other shareholders, of Troika Dialog, one of the leading investment companies in Russia.
Neil worked in Walkers' Jersey office between 2010 and 2012.
