Biography

Ross Munro is a partner at Harneys and is the Chief Executive Office and Chair of Harneys Fiduciary.

He joined the firm in 2005 as a lawyer in our Investment Funds team, advising clients on all aspects of the formation, operation and restructuring of offshore investment funds as well as the impact of relevant financial services and securities laws. Ross became a partner in 2008 and was appointed global head of our Investment Funds practice in 2012. He was closely involved in the introduction of the BVI’s Securities and Investment Business Act (SIBA) in 2010.

Ross took on the role of global head of our associated corporate and private wealth services business, Harneys Fiduciary, in 2013 and relocated to our London office the following year.

Ross is the former chairman of both the BVI Financial Services Commission’s Securities, Investment Business and Mutual Funds Advisory Committee and the BVI Investment Funds Association as well as a former member of the Company Law Review Advisory Committee. He remains involved in various public-private committees in the BVI and regularly consults with government on issues related to regulatory developments and new products. He is a contributing editor to British Virgin Islands Commercial Law (Sweet & Maxwell), now in its fourth edition.

Prior to joining us, Ross worked in corporate finance at Hammonds LLP (now Squire Patton Boggs LLP) in England.