Bermuda Office
Appleby (Bermuda)
Limited
Canon’s Court
22 Victoria Street
PO Box HM 1179
Hamilton HM EX
Bermuda
Tel +1 441 295 2244
Fax +1 441 292 8666
applebyglobal.com
Appleby (Bermuda) Limited (the Legal Practice) is a company limited by shares incorporated in Bermuda and approved and recognised under the Bermuda Bar (Professional Companies) Rules 2009. “Partner” is a title referring to a director, shareholder or an employee of the Legal Practice. A list of such persons can be obtained from your relationship partner.
Exhibit 5.1
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Invesco Ltd. | | Email jwilson@applebyglobal.com |
1555 Peachtree Street, N.E. | | |
Atlanta | | Direct Dial +1 441 298 3559 |
Georgia, 30309 | | Tel +1 441 295 2244 |
USA | | |
| | Your Ref |
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| | Appleby Ref137506.0034/JW/SS |
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| | 14 August 2018 |
Dear Sirs
Invesco Ltd. (Company)
We have acted as Bermuda counsel to the Company, and this opinion as to Bermuda law is addressed to you in connection with the automatic shelf registration statement on FormS-3, to be filed by the Company, Invesco Finance, Inc. and Invesco Finance plc (Registration Statement) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act 1933, as amended (SecuritiesAct). The Registration Statement relates to the proposed issuance from time to time by the Company, pursuant to Rule 415 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated under the Securities Act, of the following securities (i) common shares of the Company, par value US$0.20 per share (Common Shares), (ii) preference shares of the Company, par value US$0.20 per share (Preference Shares and, together with the Common Shares,Equity Securities), (iii) unsecured senior or subordinated debt securities and other debt obligations of the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries, including guarantees of any such debt securities (Debt Securities) and (iv) subscription rights (Subscription Rights) and warrants (Warrants relating to the Equity Securities, the Debt Securities, other securities or any combination thereof (the Subscription Rights and Warrants are, collectively,Other Securities and, together with the Equity Securities and the Debt Securities,Securities). The Company has requested that we provide this opinion which will be included as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
For the purposes of this opinion we have examined and relied upon the documents (Documents) listed, and in some cases defined, in the schedule to this opinion (Schedule) together with such other documentation as we have considered requisite to this opinion.
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