Jack Boldarin
Managing Partner
London
Jack is the Managing Partner of our London office and practises British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Bermuda law.
Jack enjoys 25+ years' experience advising clients on matters linked to investment hubs and originally practised from the firm's Cayman Islands and BVI offices. Jack leads a team of London based lawyers providing time-zone sensitive, dedicated Bermuda, BVI and Cayman Islands law support to clients based in EMEA.
Jack has the unique distinction of being the sole person in Europe to be ranked as a Tier 1 BVI lawyer and a Tier 1 Cayman Islands lawyer by Chambers and Partners. Jack is equally ranked as a Leading Individual by Legal 500. Legal 500 cites that Jack is widely acclaimed as one of the Cayman Island's top practitioners.
Jack specialises in:
- Banking and finance transactions (including leveraged finance, real estate finance, and debt and equity finance)
- Corporate M&A transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures, take-private transactions, equity capital markets and corporate reorganisations)
Jack Boldarin rightly stands out as a leading legal practitioner both on BVI and Cayman law. His in depth knowledge, responsiveness and efficiency are among his top qualities, but he has also excellent management skills and is also great in coordinating cross border transactions and seeing to their successful closing. Jack is very well respected and rightly ranked in top tier in his areas of expertise, banking and finance. Jack is preferred counsel of very prestigious clients which include large financial institutions and top global private equity groups.
Experience and recent work
Before joining Walkers in 2001, Jack worked for Norton Rose Fulbright in London. Prior to this he was with a major French investment bank. He started practising law with a New Zealand law firm.
Jack's finance experience includes:
- Acting as offshore counsel in connection with a US $50,000,000,000 limited recourse secured debt issuance programme.
- Acting as offshore counsel to a leading UK banking group in connection with an equity capital raising (in an offshore vehicle) of US $1,250,000,000 and debt facilities of GBP £9,000,000,000.
- Advising the financing parties on a secured US $6.1 billion facilities agreement in relation to a global mining concern.
- Acting for a sovereign wealth fund on the acquisition financing of a portfolio of 43 landmark hotels managed by a leading international hotel brand held via a group structure of 45 offshore companies.
- Acting on the GBP £1.5 billion debt restructuring of General Healthcare Group, the UK's largest private hospital group, involving senior and junior debt held by banking and private equity house interests.
- Acting for the financing parties on a US $2 billion finance facility and US $900,000,000 capital market bond issuance in connection with a private equity acquisition of a minority stake in a global advisory firm.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
- New Zealand (not practising)
Education:
- First in Law, Victoria University of Wellington
2022 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - "Jack Boldarin rightly stands out as a leading legal practitioner both on BVI and Cayman law. His in depth knowledge, responsiveness and efficiency are among his top qualities, but he has also excellent management skills and is also great in coordinating cross border transactions and seeing to their successful closing. Jack is very well respected and rightly ranked in top tier in his areas of expertise, banking and finance. Jack is preferred counsel of very prestigious clients which include large financial institutions and top global private equity groups."
2022 Legal 500 - Leading Individual - "Phenomenally responsive, technically superb, a pleasure to work with, on top of all detail. A genuinely impressive operator."
2022 Chambers & Partners UK - Band 1 - "Jack is a top banking and finance lawyer and a pleasure to work with. He is always ready to handle difficult cases and to deal with extremely demanding clients."
2021 IFLR 1000 - Notable Practitioner
2020 Chambers Global Guide - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance/Offshore) - "He is highly experienced, responsive and a pleasure to work with."
2020 Chambers and Partners UK Guide - Notable Practitioner
2020 Legal 500 - (Offshore) Leading Lawyer
2020 IFLR 1000 - Notable Practitioner
2018 Chambers Global Guide - Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance) - "Clients report that "he has been excellent to work with."
2018 Legal 500 - (Offshore) Recommended Lawyer
2018 Chambers UK Guide - Cayman law Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance)
"Sources say: 'Jack is incredibly hard-working, bright and very client-focused'."
2017 Legal 500 - (Offshore) Recommended Lawyer
"Head of corporate and finance Jack Boldarin is widely acclaimed as one of the Island's top practitioners"
2017 Chambers UK Guide - Jack is the sole Band 1 ranked BVI lawyer in London (Corporate & Finance)
2017 Chambers UK Guide - Cayman law Notable Practitioner (Corporate & Finance)
"Jack Boldarin is regularly called upon for his in-depth knowledge of a diverse range of corporate and financing matters. Sources reveal that 'he makes you feel that you're the only person he's dealing with,' and note his 'very commercial and very practical advice'." - Chambers and Partners
2016 Chambers Global Guide - (Corporate & Finance) A Notable Practitioner
2015 Finance Monthly Deal Maker of the Year Award (2015 Winner) - For acting on General Healthcare Group's £1.5 Billion debt restructuring
2015 Deal Maker of the Year award (2015 Winner) - Finance Monthly Awards for acting on United Capital Partners Group sale of a 48% stake in VK.com to Mail.ru Group for US$1.47 billion
2015 - Asset Finance Lawyer of the Year award (2015 Winner) - Global Fund Awards
2014 - India Deal of the Year award (2014 Winner) - India Business Law Journal for acting for United Spirits, the world's second largest spirits company, on its £370 million debt refinancing in relation to its acquisition of Whyte & Mackay
2014 Finance Monthly Deal Maker of the Year Winner - for Uranium One's US$300 million senior secured notes offering
2012 Finance Monthly Deal Maker of the Year
2010 - IFLR 1000 - Leading BVI Lawyer
2010 Chambers Global Guide - "Market sources say he is well established and highly regarded and has been instrumental in pushing his firm forwards"
2009 Chambers Global Guide - Recommended British Virgin Islands lawyer.
2009 PLC Which Lawyer Yearbook - "Highly recommended Corporate / M&A lawyer, who is widely endorsed for his deal making process"
2009 International Financial Law Review - Recommended British Virgin Islands lawyer
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