Tristan Head Director

Tristan is a Director and joint head of our top tier Corporate and Commercial team. He is one of the Isle of Man’s leading corporate lawyers and has over 20 years’ experience of advising on complex corporate, commercial and finance transactions.

In addition to advising on domestic and cross-border corporate finance transactions including initial public offerings, rights issues and public/private bond issues, Tristan has extensive experience advising on local and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions primarily involving financial services businesses.

He also regularly advises on corporate restructurings, banking and finance transactions, captive insurance structuring matters and joint venture arrangements.

Together with Lindsey Bermingham, Tristan co-leads our Regulatory team which provides contentious and non-contentious advice on all Isle of Man regulatory matters.

Tristan is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ in both the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets and Corporate and Commercial categories by The Legal 500 UK.  He is also ranked in Band 1 for Corporate and Finance transactions by Chambers and Partners UK Guide and as a ‘Notable practitioner’ by IFLR1000 for his M&A work.

Clients describe Tristan as efficient, effective and responsive.” Clients also praise him for providing a “high calibre of work and being extremely responsive, knowledgeable and personable“, and giving “concise and commercial advice and demonstrated a wealth of understanding of the Isle of Man M&A process.”

Publications

• International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG): Mergers & Acquisitions: Isle of Man
• Practical Law Insurance and Reinsurance Global Guide: Isle of Man

Services and Sectors

• Corporate and Commercial
• Regulatory
• Banking and Finance
• Listing Services
• Trust and Company Services
• Financial Services
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• eGaming
• Technology
• Private Equity