Spencer West’s British Virgin Islands (BVI) office provides a full range of offshore legal services, including corporate, commercial, funds, finance, digital assets, private client, dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency.

The BVI is a leading offshore financial centre with a robust financial service sector, and renowned for its corporate and commercial legal landscape that attracts and services large numbers of international companies and investment funds. Our experienced and highly qualified partner-led team  boasts a wealth of experience in assisting directors, shareholders, officeholders, trustees, beneficiaries, asset managers, token issuers and ultra-high and high net worth individuals. We specialise in delivering cost-effective and timely solutions to complex cross-border legal problems.

Our Partners are seasoned experts with a minimum of ten years’ experience in BVI law and practice. A number of them currently reside and operate from our BVI offices, and the majority of them have lived and worked in the jurisdiction for many years. Our Partners work together to provide a seamless service to their portfolio of international clients, bolstered by first-hand business and industry experience in multiple sectors, including the management of trust and corporate services firms in Barbados, the BVI, and London.

The Spencer West BVI office is part of the Spencer West group, which boasts approximately 250 Partners across more than 20 jurisdictions spanning 5 regions worldwide,. These regions include Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our global partnership is characterised by its innovative and operational structure designed to benefit our international clients by providing them with direct access to a highly experienced team of senior lawyers practicing across a comprehensive range of legal disciplines.

Our practical, collaborative, and efficient approach to delivering global legal services enables us to adapt to the specific needs of each client to provide a bespoke service with creative solutions to achieve the desired results.

Meet our team

Indira Birkwood
Partner - Banking & Finance
Peter Vas
Partner - Banking & Finance, Corporate
Daniel Russell, Spencer West corporate lawyer
Daniel Russell
Partner - Corporate, Investment Funds, Finance
Tamara Maduro
Partner - Corporate, Banking & Finance
Stephen Abletshauser
Partner - Corporate, Private Client & Estate Planning
Robert Foote
Partner - Corporate/Commercial Disputes, Restructuring and Insolvency
Zac Lucas
Partner – International Private Client