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Gavin Woods

Non-Executive Director

Gavin is a partner in Carey Olsen’s Bermuda corporate and finance team and is also deputy managing partner of Carey Olsen in Bermuda. He advises on all forms of corporate and finance transactions. In particular, Gavin is recognised as one of Bermuda’s leading practitioners in the insurance/reinsurance sector and has extensive experience working with insurance and financial services companies and industry participants on all matters relating to insurers, reinsurers and insurance intermediaries.

In his corporate practice, Gavin advises on all matters relating to Bermuda entities, including local, exempted, permit and segregated accounts companies, partnerships and limited liability companies. Gavin’s practice includes corporate governance, equity issuances, joint ventures, listings, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, regulatory compliance and licensing advice related to financial services, insurance, investment business, investment funds and fund management.

In his finance practice, Gavin advises local and international clients, including banks, corporates, funds, insurance companies, investment managers and investors on matters relating to lending, structured finance, fund financing, asset finance, securitisation (including ILS), debt capital markets, securities issuances, derivatives and restructuring, together with related regulatory and collateral advice.
Gavin is also a member of the listing committee of the Bermuda Stock Exchange.

Career

Prior to joining Carey Olsen in January 2019, Gavin was a partner at another law firm in Bermuda. Prior to his arrival in Bermuda in 2010, he practised in New York and London for international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He is a qualified lawyer in Bermuda, England and New York.

Gavin Woods