Jeremy Muir

Partner - Financial Services

Jeremy is a specialist financial services and investment lawyer. He works with retail and wholesale fund managers (including KiwiSaver and superannuation), trustee companies, derivatives issuers, FinTech (including crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending platforms), insurers and start-ups. He is also one of New Zealand’s leading lawyers advising on cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and digital tokens – working closely with the Financial Markets Authority and other regulators in relation to the treatment of coins, tokens, schemes and exchanges under New Zealand law.

Jeremy enjoys working with alternative assets and structures across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, property investment vehicles, marinas and innovative platforms and products. He is a limited partnerships expert, having established numerous private equity and venture capital funds, including negotiating with significant cornerstone investorssuch as the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund (NZVIF), New Zealand Super Fund, ACC and Maori investors.

Jeremy also spent several years working in offshore funds for a major offshore law firm, and is admitted to the bar in both Guernsey and the Cayman Islands.

Professional background

Recent work

Milford

Advised Milford with establishing their first private equity fund and first fund structured as a limited partnership. This was strategically important for Milford as their first private equity fund, and first fund structured as a limited partnership. Milford relied on our market-leading expertise in the establishment of these PE fund structures to ensure a smooth and trouble-fee establishment process and a successful fund launch.

Pioneer Capital Management Limited

Assisted to establish their third private equity fund, Pioneer Capital Partners III LP (PCP III). We played