Tiffany Tolliss
Tiffany is a corporate lawyer who has practised in the UK, Jersey and the British Virgin Islands. She is a senior member of the BVI transactional team at Ogier and advises on a broad range of British Virgin Islands corporate, finance, funds and restructuring matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, debt finance and the formation, launch and ongoing maintenance of investment funds.
Tiffany's wide-ranging practice includes representing financial institutions and organisations advising on the British Virgin Islands law aspects of banking, finance and restructuring transactions.
Tiffany also covers all aspects of BVI funds formation and frequently advises investment managers, funds and financial services providers on BVI legal and regulatory matters.
Tiffany is also part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency team, with experience in refinancings, corporate restructuring and reorganisations and member and creditor schemes of arrangement. Her achievements include working on a BVI scheme of arrangement for a debt restructuring, which formed part of a US$1.5 billion global restructuring for a Brazilian-headquartered oil and gas drilling group.
Before joining Ogier in 2017, Tiffany was part of the Corporate team at Browne Jacobson in Birmingham. Tiffany is a law graduate of the University of Birmingham and completed her Legal Practice Course at the University of Law. She is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and qualified as an English Solicitor in 2016. She was also admitted as a British Virgin Islands legal practitioner in 2019.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2016
Experience
- Ogier (2017 - Present)
- Browne Jacobson (2016 - 2017)
- Shakespeare Martinuae (2014 - 2016)
Qualifications
- LPC (2013)
- LLB (2012)
Education
- University of Law (2012 - 2013)
- University of Birmingham (2009 - 2012)
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PRACTICE NOTES
British Virgin Islands cross‑border lending and security: regulatory perimeter, Economic Substance, share charges, guarantees, priority and enforcement, and recognition of English law and judgments (2025 update)
Loan market and developments
This section offers a concise overview of the present condition of the loan markets in this jurisdiction and highlights any significant recent developments. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) does not maintain a domestic commercial lending market; financing relevant to this guide is ordinarily extended by lenders outside the BVI. In practice, a BVI borrower sources funding from major financial centres worldwide and typically draws and operates its facilities beyond the territory. At present, most lending seen in the jurisdiction originates from European, Asian and North American institutions. Historically, balance sheet lending and asset finance have been the dominant segments for the BVI, while shifting global conditions have also driven a notable rise in restructurings and work-outs...
Banking & Finance
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