Corporate & Commercial Advisory

Sharon is the founder of the BeesMont Group and CEO of BeesMont Law Limited. She practices in all areas of corporate and commercial law with particular expertise in investment funds, structured finance, joint venture structures and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to establishing the BeesMont Group, Sharon spent the first eight years of her professional practice with Linklaters (in London & Hong Kong) where she worked primarily in the fields of commercial property, banking and capital market and banking transactions; after a sabbatical involving cycling from England to the Near East, she worked with Denys Reitz in South Africa, advising on corporate cross-border transactions. Sharon then moved to Bermuda where she was the head of banking at one of the then leading Bermuda law firms. In 1997 she co-founded the original ISIS Group which included the ISIS Foundation now known as Adara Foundation, an international non-profit, which seeks to improve the lives of children and their families in Nepal and Uganda. Sharon was also one of the founders of IKONIC Fund Services Ltd., a licensed Bermuda fund administrator, now owned by the Artex Group.

Since 1992, when Sharon commenced her law practice in Bermuda, she has developed a recognised investment fund practice, particularly with respect to infrastructure and alternative fund strategies. She has also advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions including domestic and international M&A and joint ventures, general corporate governance issues and more recently digital asset business.

Sharon is a former Director of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, a member of the Asset Management Group, a committee of the Bermuda Business Development Agency (having previously chaired a Bermuda investment funds industry committee), a member of the AIMA chapter in Bermuda and has served on numerous other voluntary business groups in Bermuda. Sharon is also a member of the BSX Listing Committee. She has additionally written numerous articles and participated in a variety of conference panels both in Bermuda and overseas.

Sharon is a director of the publicly traded Enstar Group Limited and The China ‘A’ Fund Limited and a number of privately owned companies.

Education
LLM (2:1) – Cambridge University
BA (2:1) (Hons) – University of Westminster

Sharon was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales and Hong Kong and was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1993.

Bourn is a Senior Corporate Counsel in the corporate and commercial practice at BeesMont Law Limited.  He advises on a wide range of local and international corporate and regulatory matters, with experience in banking and finance, debt capital markets, trustee practice, trade finance, Islamic finance, investment funds, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and structuring transactions.

Bourn’s practice has a particular emphasis on digital asset businesses and structures, including advising in relation to establishment and licensing of digital asset businesses in Bermuda.

Before joining BeesMont, Bourn gained experience working in several overseas jurisdictions including England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Russian Federation.

Education

University of New South Wales (Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce)

College of Law, New South Wales (Diploma of Legal Practice)

College of Law, London (Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test)