HARNEYS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Partner
- Global Head of Regulatory
- Partner London
Aki Corsoni-Husain is the global head of Regulatory & Tax, specialising in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious financial services, sanctions, fintech, AML, and tax information exchange law. His practice covers the BVI, Cyprus/ EU law, and other jurisdictions within our network. Aki works intensively with and mentors all of our regulatory and tax lawyers located across the globe. As relevant, he provides consultative professional advice to governmental and regulatory authorities on the regimes underpinning global regulatory initiatives and frequently presents at conferences on these topics. Aki works on a daily basis with the world's top financial institutions and law firms.
Aki is the founder of, and regular contributor to, our ground-breaking Regulatory Blog and our Expert Review podcast series. He also serves as a contributing editor to many publications, including British Virgin Islands Commercial Law, Bermuda Commercial Law and International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner Hong Kong
Expertise
Banking & Finance , Corporate , Equity capital markets , Private equity
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- Senior Associate
- Member of the International Women 's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
- Member of the Litigation
Expertise
Litigation & Insolvency , Restructuring
Aline is a member of the Litigation, Insolvency, and Restructuring team in our Cayman Islands office. Aline specialises in complex, cross-border, financial and corporate disputes, many of which relate to distressed debt and distressed events. Aline's practice focusses on a wide variety of offshore dispute resolution and insolvency based in the Cayman Islands, including complex, cross-border litigation, contentious restructuring and cross-border insolvency, fraud and asset recovery, shareholder and investment funds disputes, corporate investigations in relation to the prevention of dissipation of offshore assets, recovery of debt and as ...
Aline is a member of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL International).
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Member of the Investment Funds and Regulatory
- Member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners
Expertise
Banking & Finance , Corporate , Investment Funds , Regulatory & Tax
Allison is a member of the Investment Funds and Regulatory & Tax practice in our Cayman Islands office. She joined Harneys as an articled clerk in 2021, during her training period Allison also completed the Judicial Clerkship Programme in the Summary and Grand Courts of the Cayman Islands where she conducted research for Justice Doyle as part of the Festschrift for former Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands. Prior to joining Harneys, she worked as a senior trust officer at a number of onshore and offshore multi-national corporations providing trust services to an international UHNW and HNW clientele. Allison is a member of the Society o ...
Allison is a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners and the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association.
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- Yiolitis LLC, Shanghai Representative Office ( Cyprus )
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- Head of BVI Private Wealth and Regulatory
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- Registered Foreign Lawyer ( Partner )
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- Partner
- Partner / Hong Kong
Andrew is described as an "outstanding barrister with an emerging reputation in the commodities field"
Job Titles:
- Head of Sales, Funds and Regulatory
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- Global Director of Marketing and Business Development
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Partner
- Partner / Cayman Islands
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- Partner
- Partner / Bermuda
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- Partner
- Partner / Bermuda
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- Director of Marketing & Communications
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- Consultant
- Consultant / Bermuda
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- Partner
- Partner / Cayman Islands
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- Partner
- Partner / Singapore
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- Partner
- Partner / Hong Kong
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- Head of Marketing and Business Development
- Head of Marketing and Business Development Projects
- Head of Marketing and Business Development Projects British Virgin Islands
Rahel Worede is the head of Marketing and Business Development projects at Harneys. Working closely with the Director of Marketing and Business Development, other heads of department and key internal stakeholders, Rahel is responsible for developing and implementing both internal and client-facing projects. Rahel joined Harneys in 2012 and has over 20 years' experience working in various senior marketing and communication roles within the consumer electronics, hospitality and tourism, and legal services industries. She started her career with Sony Europe in the Digital Imaging Division and later joined the management team of Olympus Net ...
Rahel Worede is the head of Marketing and Business Development projects at Harneys. Working closely with the Director of Marketing and Business Development, other heads of department and key internal stakeholders, Rahel is responsible for developing and implementing both internal and client-facing projects.
Rahel joined Harneys in 2012 and has over 20 years' experience working in various senior marketing and communication roles within the consumer electronics, hospitality and tourism, and legal services industries. She started her career with Sony Europe in the Digital Imaging Division and later joined the management team of Olympus Netherlands as the marketing and communications manager and was responsible for delivering strategic marketing solutions for the company's Consumer Imaging Business. Rahel moved to the British Virgin Islands in 2006 where she worked as a senior marketing manager for a full service marketing and public relations agency.
Born and raised in Ethiopia, Rahel completed her secondary school education in the United Kingdom and attended university in the Netherlands where she then continued to work and live until she moved to the British Virgin Islands. Rahel speaks English, Dutch and Amharic and is proficient in Spanish.
Andrea is recognised as an influential and innovative in-house counsel of the GC Powerlist: Greece and Cyprus
Job Titles:
- Chief Governance Risk and Compliance Officer
Job Titles:
- Counsel
- Member of Our Hong Kong
Expertise
Investment Funds , Private equity , Corporate
Val Lam is a member of our Hong Kong office. Val has extensive experience in advising on the formation, structuring, maintenance and restructuring of various types of open-ended and closed-ended funds in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, including hedge funds and private equity funds. She is fluent in English and Cantonese, and is a native speaker of Putonghua. Her legal experience coupled with language proficiency has enabled her to serve the clients in this region well. In her current practice, she works regularly with fund managers (both institutional and start-ups), administrators, banks and custodians. She has been ...
Val Lam is a member of our Hong Kong office. Val has extensive experience in advising on the formation, structuring, maintenance and restructuring of various types of open-ended and closed-ended funds in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, including hedge funds and private equity funds. She is fluent in English and Cantonese, and is a native speaker of Putonghua. Her legal experience coupled with language proficiency has enabled her to serve the clients in this region well.
In her current practice, she works regularly with fund managers (both institutional and start-ups), administrators, banks and custodians. She has been regularly instructed by PRC managers, including one of the largest PRC asset managers on the formation and maintenance of various SPC funds, one of which totaled an AUM of US$2 billion as of March 2018.
Prior to joining us in 2012, Val practiced at Ogier Hong Kong as an associate for over four years, and her practice covered investment funds, capital markets and corporate finance.
Job Titles:
- Global Managing Partner
- Global Managing Partner / London