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Vanessa King Is BVI Woman of the Year – Citywealth Magazine’s 2023 Powerwomen Awards Programme
O’Neal Webster Managing Partner Vanessa King is the “Woman of the Year ” in the British Virgin Islands category of the Citywealth Magazine’s 2023 Powerwomen Awards Programme.
The award was fittingly bestowed on King who has an impressive legal career in the financial sector.
The Citywealth Powerwomen Awards celebrates women leaders in the wealth sector for the past 12 years by shining a spotlight on individuals and companies who support female leadership, caregiving responsibilities, and diversity.
King’s peers and clients voted for her online from January to March.
Her company’s website shared that she “covers the major financial centres of the world, where her clients include international and domestic financial institutions, law firms, family offices, trust companies, and high net worth individuals. She is frequently instructed to establish or amend BVI trusts and various forms of corporate finance, such as bilateral and syndicated loans, project finance, property finance, and restructuring. As managing partner, she leads the law firm in areas of strategic vision and growth, client satisfaction, process improvement, and other management initiatives.”
King is also the Deputy Chair of the BVI Financial Services Commission Appeals Board and chairs the Caribbean and Latin America Region of STEP, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, and the BVI STEP Branch. Additionally, she sits on the STEP Caribbean Conference Steering Committee and is a member and former secretary of the BVI Bar Association.
On the community level, she is the co-chair of the Board of Directors of Green VI Ltd.; the deputy chair of the Board of Trustees for Cedar International School, and contributes countless hours to pro-bono services.
King has been honoured throughout her career. In 2016, she was the global recipient of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ ninth annual Founder’s Award. In 2021, she received the BVI Financial Services Awards’ 2020 “Lawyer of the Year.”