Peter Vas

Background

About Peter Vas

Peter is a Partner in Spencer West’s Banking & Finance and Corporate Groups and advises on matters of British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law. He has acted for clients on offshore transactional matters for around a decade and has previously worked as an attorney in the London office of a US law firm and the Channel Islands and Hong Kong offices of an international offshore law firm. More recently, he has led and co-ordinated the banking & finance and corporate groups of a Cayman Islands headquartered offshore law firm in Hong Kong. Peter is widely praised for his knowledge of offshore legal matters, commerciality, responsiveness and attention to detail. He is consistently recognised as a leading offshore lawyer and has acted on some of the largest and most complex cross-border banking & finance and corporate transactions. He is sector agnostic and acts for onshore and midshore law firms, accounting practices, corporate service providers, banks and other financiers, leasing houses, private equity houses, family offices, investment funds, listed companies, other corporate entities and high net worth individuals to deal with day-to-day legal issues and complex, strategic matters. Peter is recommended in Legal500, recognised as a rising star in Hong Kong in the Asian Legal Business 2023 and listed in Asia Business Law Journal's 2024 A-List of Offshore Lawyers. He has once again been listed as a leading lawyer in the Asian Legal Business Offshore Client Choice List in 2024 in which he is described as, among other things, “very knowledgeable of offshore legal matters”,"professional and responsive" and as being able to “provide succinct, commercial advice in a timely manner”. Peter has advised on various matters which have been recognised as landmark transactions by leading directories and publications. For example, he provided BVI and Cayman Islands finance law advice in connection with China Vanke's participation in a consortium to take Global Logistic Properties Ltd private, a transaction valued at approximately US$11.6 billion which was Singapore's largest M&A deal on record and Asia's largest private equity buyout at the time of the transaction. He has also provided BVI and Cayman Islands law advice to the steering committee of bondholders of certain notes issued by Kaisa Group in connection with its restructuring of nearly 17 billion yuan in offshore debt involving around 70 offshore vehicles, which was recognized as a "Deal of the Year" by the China Business Law Journal and IFLR.