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Kim Paiva

Kim Paiva is a Group Partner in Walker's top-tier Guernsey Banking & Finance team – she has 15 years' experience in private practice in onshore and offshore roles, and leads the Guernsey acquisition finance and general secured lending team. Kim has a broad range of expertise encompassing Banking & Finance and Corporate law matters, and specialises in acquisition and asset financing deals, advising borrowers and lenders predominantly in London and within the Channel Islands on matters of Guernsey law. She is part of the market-leading Walkers Global Aviation Group, and advises both owners and financiers in relation to transactions involving aircraft registered or to be registered on 2-REG (Guernsey's Aircraft Registry). Kim has ten years' experience advising on Guernsey law, and also advises on leveraged finance, and in acquisitions of regulated trust and company services providers. Having spent five years practising in South Africa's largest law firm, Kim also works with clients from South Africa on funds and private capital matters, advising clients in respect of asset protection and succession planning structures. · Carey Olsen

GuernseyBanking & Finance, Corporate / M&A

About

Group Partner based in Guernsey with 15 years' private practice experience, leading the Guernsey acquisition finance and general secured lending team in the Banking & Finance department. She specialises in acquisition and asset financing (advising borrowers and lenders on Guernsey law), is part of the firm's Global Aviation Group advising on transactions involving aircraft to be registered on 2-REG, and advises on leveraged finance, acquisitions of regulated trust and company services providers, and funds/private capital matters including asset protection and succession planning.

Practice areas

Banking & FinanceCorporate / M&AAviationAsset FinanceSecured LendingFundsPrivate Capital

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Expertise

Acquisition financeAsset financingAircraft / aviation finance (2-REG)Leveraged financeAcquisitions of regulated trust and company service providersGeneral secured lendingFunds and private capitalAsset protection and succession planning