OVERVIEW
Amel is an associate in Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group's British Virgin Islands office. She specialises in the areas of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, initial public offerings, corporate reorganisations and general corporate governance. She also advises investment funds, in particular the establishment and maintenance of hedge funds and private equity funds.BACKGROUND
Amel joined the Maples Group in 2018, having previously completed her training at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in London, and prior to that, worked with Maples and Calder in London. Amel has been recommended in the Legal 500 as a 'Rising Stars'.BAR ADMISSIONS
2018 - Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2019 - Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Funds & Investment Management
Corporate
EDUCATION
University of Manchester, UK, (1st Class Hons) Geography BA, 2010
BPP University, UK (Commendation), GDL, 2014
BPP University, UK (Distinction), LPC, 2016
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KNOWLEDGE
- BVI Regulatory Obligations and Filing Deadlines 2022 12 May 2022
- BVI Regulatory Sandbox Launched to Support Innovative FinTech 22 January 2021
- BVI Approved Managers: Upcoming Deadline 18 January 2021
- BVI Regulator Issues Guidance on Regulation of Virtual Assets 29 July 2020
- British Virgin Islands Regulatory Obligations and Filing Deadlines 2020 10 June 2020
- BVI CbCR Reporting System and FATCA CRS Deadlines Extended 05 May 2020
- Amendments to the BVI Regulatory Code 05 May 2020
- British Virgin Islands Update Valuation Policies and Procedures and Acceptable Accounting Standards 17 March 2020
- New Regulatory Regime for Closed-Ended Funds in the British Virgin Islands 17 March 2020