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Neil Horner

ASW Law

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Position: Head of Corporate
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Bermuda
England & Wales
New York
Practice Areas:
Banking
Capital markets
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
French
German
Biography

Neil Horner is Head of Corporate at ASW. He joined the firm in March 2003. Prior to joining the firm he worked in leading firms in London and New York (Neil is qualified in both jurisdictions) and in Frankfurt. He was called to the Bermuda Bar in 2004. Neil holds two first class honours degrees from Cambridge and an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School. Neil specialises in corporate, (re)insurance, funds and commercial law with extensive experience working on large commercial and corporate finance transactions with particular emphasis on the (re)insurance and financial services sectors. He was heavily involved in advising investors participating in the Class of 2005 start-ups and also recently acted on the acquisition by a large US private corporation of an NYSE-listed corporation. Neil has written extensively and contributed the chapters on Bermuda Insurance regulation and segregated account companies to the 2nd edition of O’Neill & Woloniecki’s “The Law of Reinsurance”.

Bar admissions

Law Society – England (1990)

New York State Bar Association (1990)

Bermuda Bar Association (2004)

Association memberships

Law Society (England)

New York State Bar Association

Bermuda Bar Association

Academic qualifications

Peterhouse, Cambridge BA Honours – First Class (1985)

Peterhouse, Cambridge LLM First Class Honours (1987)

University of Chicago Law School – LLM (Rotary Foundation Fellowship)

Address:
Hamilton
Tel:+441 295 8146 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.aswlaw.com/?page_id=15