Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited

Adam Collieson

Adam Collieson is head of the property department in Bermuda. Adam’s core practice is focused on commercial and residential real estate transactions where he has extensive experience advising both international and domestic clients on a wide range of complex property issues. Adam has a reputation for providing his clients with clear and considered advice. · Real Estate

Aleeza Dulaney

Aleeza is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. She advises on all aspects of corporate and finance transactions. Aleeza has notable experience in securitisation, debt capital markets, corporate finance, property finance and asset finance. She has acted for a range of clients, including international corporate and financial institutions, sponsors, arrangers, facility providers and investors. · Corporate / M&A

Alex Gays

Alex is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. He advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, corporate governance and financing rounds. Alex has experience advising clients in a variety of sectors including fintech, media & entertainment, banking and technology. · Corporate / M&A

Alex Hall Taylor KC

Alex Hall Taylor is a barrister, King's Counsel, partner and head of Carey Olsen’s BVI Dispute Resolution and Litigation team. Alex has over 25 years' court experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution across a broad range of commercial, company, shareholder, trusts, insolvency, restructuring, civil fraud, asset tracing, security enforcement, tax, professional liability and fiduciary claims, arbitrations and mediations. He has extensive case management, interlocutory, trial and appellate advocacy experience including before the Privy Council. His practice is principally contentious, involving advocacy, tactical advice and strategic expertise in high value, complex, document heavy matters that are frequently multi-jurisdictional in nature. He is a CEDR-accredited mediator. Alex is ranked as a leading individual in BVI dispute resolution in the most recent editions of both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Global, where he is said to stand out for 'his knowledge, experience and responsiveness' and is described by market sources as 'an exceptionally bright, sensible litigator', 'fantastic' and a 'real delight to work with'. Alex regularly acts and advises on trusts and shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice claims, alleged breaches of trust or of shareholder agreements, rectification actions, minority squeeze-outs and just and equitable winding up applications as well as on fraud and asset tracing claims and regulatory, corporate investigation, anti-corruption and money-laundering assignments. Alex is often involved in seeking or defeating interim remedies such as injunctions, the appointment of receivers and Norwich Pharmacal relief, often on an urgent basis. He has acted as an expert witness on BVI law, practice and procedure in foreign proceedings. Recent BVI experience includes: Enforcement of arbitration award in the Unitel/Vidatel Angolan telecommunications dispute Obtaining discharge of an interim injunction obtained in support of Swiss arbitration proceedings in the medical imaging industry Acting for lead secured creditors in the billion $ restructuring of the Brazilian Constellation offshore drilling group, including first ever appointment of ‘light touch’ joint provisional liquidators in support of foreign restructuring Resisting unreasonable interference by BVI Receivers of BVI company in a Japanese listed subsidiary Liquidations and related applications and claims in connection with frauds by a former Sao Paolo mayor, including obtaining first reported BVI judgment on pooling related liquidations Advising trustees of long-established family trusts on allegations of breach of duty and potential application for removal by warring beneficiaries · Dispute Resolution

Alex Ohlsson

Alex is recognised as a leading expert in corporate and finance law; regularly instructed by leading global law firms and financial institutions. Alex is a member of various regulatory and industry bodies, including the financial and commercial law sub-committee of the Jersey Law Society, which review as well as initiate proposals for legislative changes. · Corporate / M&A

Alex Thornton de Mauroy

Alex is counsel to the dispute resolution and litigation team with experience in complex commercial litigation, contentious insolvency matters, public law cases and regulatory enforcement. Since moving to Guernsey, Alex has been involved in a range of matters. These include acting for certain directors to defend claims in the region of USD 1 billion brought by joint liquidators, advising parties involved in regulatory enforcement proceedings at the Royal Court and Court of Appeal level, acting for high net worth individuals in connection with a range of issues, and advising on various public law matters including judicial review. Alex has been recognised as a Future Leader (non-partner) for Commercial Litigation by Lexology in 2023, 2024 and 2025. Alex is also ranked in the Citywealth Leaders List 2025, and received the Citywealth Future Leaders Awards 2023 – Lawyer of the Year IFC (Senior Associate) – Silver Award. Clients say that Alex has "exceptional attention to detail", and that his "Client service and delivery was exceptional, never missed a deadline and was on every aspect of the detail". · Litigation

Alexa Saunders

Alexa is head of the trusts and private wealth group in Jersey and has a broad non-contentious trust practice. Alexa regularly advises in connection with private family trusts, employee benefit trusts and pension trusts, including on the establishment of new trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising in connection with the ongoing administration and restructuring of complex trust structures. Alexa also advises in connection with philanthropic and charitable structures as well as foundations. Alexa is ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, and features in the 2024 Private Client Global Elite Directory. · Trusts

Alexander Collis

Alex is a partner in the corporate and finance team of Carey Olsen in Bermuda and advises on all aspects of corporate and finance transactions. Alex advises on the structuring, negotiation and execution of complex corporate, finance and regulatory transactions across a range of sectors, with a particular emphasis on insurance. He also advises on Bermuda’s corporate income tax regime and economic substance requirements, guiding clients through the jurisdiction’s evolving regulatory landscape and cross-border compliance obligations. · Corporate / M&A

Alexandra Hehir

Alex is a senior associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen’s London office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Alistair Russell

Alistair is a partner in the corporate and finance group of Carey Olsen in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of finance, fund finance, venture capital, corporate, investment funds and commercial law. He has advised clients on a broad range of transactions, including financing, private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets, and is described by clients in IFLR1000 as "the best Cayman lawyer we've ever worked with". · Corporate / M&A

Amelia Tan

Amelia is counsel in Carey Olsen's litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation, with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder / director litigation, corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Amelia also has significant experience in seeking urgent interlocutory relief for clients, including freezing orders and injunctions, and enforcement matters and has represented clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. She regularly advises listed companies and financial institutions, high net worth individuals and insolvency practitioners in the region. Amelia has been listed as a Leading Associate (previously known as Rising Star) consecutively by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List in 2024 and 2025. She was also selected to participate in the inaugural Singapore Leaders Network fellowship programme (SGLN), an initiative led by the Singapore government, the Singapore Economic Development Board, and supported by the private sector. Amelia is one of the five global finalists (and only recipient in Asia) of the IWIRC Rising Star Award in 2022 and is also part of the International Insolvency Institute's (III) highly prestigious and successful NextGen Leadership Program Class XII (2023). Clients speak highly of Amelia, describing her as an "outstanding individual within Carey Olsen" and who is "technically solid, business savvy and always responsive". · Litigation

Andrea Steel

Andrea has considerable expertise in a wide range of fund structuring, formation, administration and regulatory matters, with particular knowledge of private equity and real estate funds. She has a track record of building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and demonstrating commitment to organisational aims, values and strategies. · Corporate / M&A

Andreas Kistler

Andreas Kistler is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth and litigation teams in Jersey. He specialises in the court-related aspects of the trusts and private wealth team's practice and has acted in numerous cases involving allegations of breach of trust, fraud and professional negligence, both for plaintiffs and defendants. He also has experience of mediation of such disputes. He is also regularly involved in applications by trustees for administrative directions, applications by trustees and beneficiaries for relief on grounds of mistake, applications for orders approving compromises of disputes on behalf of minor, unborn and unascertained beneficiaries and applications for rectification of trust instruments. In addition, he practises all other aspects of Jersey commercial litigation, including disputes concerning Jersey companies, contractual disputes and Jersey intellectual property rights. Andreas is ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, and features in the 2024 Private Client Global Elite Directory. · Trusts & Private Wealth

Andrew Boyce

Andrew is a partner in the corporate and finance team and is recognised both locally and internationally for investment and finance transactions across all entity types. Andrew has specialist experience in the structuring and establishment of open and closed-ended investment funds and the credit and structured finance products related to them. In particular he has built an enviable reputation in his core expertise of private equity fund formation having advised a range of global investment houses as well as new managers on fund establishment, investment structuring, asset acquisitions and disposals and regulatory issues. Andrew's banking and finance expertise compliments his investment funds core practice and covers a range of credit types including capital call facilities, leveraged financing and asset finance. He has acted for global banking institutions and alternative credit providers as well as institutional borrowers. Andrew is instructed by leading UK, European and international law firms and financial institutions, and is recognised by global legal directories and publications. As a qualified British Virgin Islands lawyer Andrew also advises on the above in relation to British Virgin Islands law from his base in Guernsey. · Investment Funds

Andrew Munro

Andrew is an advocate of ten years' standing with twenty years' corporate experience, including fifteen years in a senior role at another offshore magic circle firm prior to joining Carey Olsen. He has covered all core areas of offshore non-contentious practice and has managed many large transactions including Guernsey firsts. Andrew has also gained experience as a director of Guernsey regulated financial services businesses and listed vehicles. · Banking & Finance

Andrew Tually

Andrew is a partner in Carey Olsen's Guernsey office. Andrew has significant experience in connection with the structuring, formation and regulation of Guernsey open and closed-ended collective investment schemes investing in private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds. He also advises upon significant and high value corporate and M&A transactions, including court-sanctioned schemes of arrangement, group restructures and migrations. Andrew advises a wide range of fund managers across the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific. · Investment Funds

Angela Gizzi

Angela is a senior associate in the BVI investment funds and corporate team. Angela advises on the full lifecycle of investment funds in the British Virgin Islands, from formation and licensing to maintenance, restructuring, and termination. She works with a broad range of fund types, including incubator, approved, professional, private, and public funds. Angela's work also includes extensive experience in advising clients in relation to management vehicles and preparing and submitting approved manager applications to the BVI Financial Services Commission. Angela's clients include investment funds, general partners and investment managers. Angela's practice includes a wide range of investment strategies and sectors, and includes particular expertise in funds operating digital asset strategies. Angela also helps clients on a range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and commercial contracts. · Investment Funds

Annette Alexander

Annette advises on a broad range of corporate matters with a particular emphasis on the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds, regulatory compliance, capital markets and banking and finance. She advises on the formation of all types of alternative investment funds, including private equity funds, listed funds, hedge funds, sustainable investment funds and property funds as well as banking and finance transactions. Annette advises many of the largest fund promoters and financial institutions both locally and internationally. Annette arranges listings of investment funds, trading companies and bonds on The International Stock Exchange, including acting as sponsor (through Carey Olsen Corporate Finance Limited) and advising on compliance with the continuous obligations associated with a TISE listing. · Investment Funds

Anthony McKenzie

Anthony is the managing partner of our Singapore office and the head of our corporate practice in Asia. He is also a founding partner of Carey Olsen's Asia offices and a non-resident partner of the Hong Kong office. Anthony is a specialist in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Bermuda law and is one of only two partners in Singapore admitted to practise these three key offshore laws. He is also the only Cayman Islands and BVI admitted and Bermuda registered transactional partner in Singapore. Anthony has a broad range of experience in offshore corporate, investment funds and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, secured and unsecured financing arrangements, preference share issues, IPOs and capital markets transactions. He regularly advises financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers on leveraged and acquisition finance, syndicated lending, structured finance, fund finance and secured and unsecured general corporate lending. He also has significant experience in advising clients on the structuring, formation and maintenance of regulated and unregulated investment funds in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. Other than being regarded a Leading Partner by The Legal 500, Anthony is ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by each of IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific. He has been consistently identified by China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) in its prestigious A-List as an elite lawyer with a China practice since 2020. In 2023, 2024 and 2025, Anthony is recognised in the new category of the CBLJ A-List, "The Visionaries". He was the only offshore lawyer based in Singapore distinguished on the 2022 and 2023 CBLJ A-list (2 consecutive years). Other than CBLJ, Anthony is also recognised in the Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022 and 2024 by Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) as part of the publication's prestigious annual A-List series. In 2019, he was also recognised by Asian Legal Business in its Offshore Client Choice List for client service in Asia. Clients describe Anthony as "a clear market leader in the offshore space. Top notch service, deep commercial understanding, striking a great balance between legal precision and commercial wisdom." He is also noted for being "extremely approachable with a can-do attitude to providing the advice needed to get transactions over the line." · Corporate / M&A

Ardra Swaraj

Ardra is an associate in the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. She advises a variety of private clients and fiduciaries on all aspects of Guernsey fiduciary law, including the creation and administration of offshore trusts and corporate structures. Ardra also advises on Guernsey inheritance laws, the creation of wills and the administration of estates. · Trusts & Private Wealth

Arindam Madhuryya

Arindam is a member of the investment funds and corporate team in Jersey and specialises in advising on investment funds matters. He also advises clients on corporate real estate and banking matters. He advises funds, fund managers, corporates and other financial institutions on all aspects of establishment, regulation and operation in Jersey. In particular, Arindam has advised on several high profile fund formation matters, and regularly advises fund managers and corporates on co-investments, portfolio acquisitions, corporate reorganisations (including migrations and mergers) and financing matters. · Investment Funds

Arya Hashemi

Arya is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate and finance team. Arya advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including joint ventures, private equity, group reorganisations and shareholder agreements. Arya also has extensive experience of advising clients on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, often involving multiple jurisdictions. · Corporate / M&A

Ashley Morrison

Ashley specialises in securitisation and structured finance transactions for clients which include global investment banks and issuers. In particular, Ashley has worked on numerous high yield bond issuances with the leading law firms in London, a number of synthetic securitisations and has been involved in the Jersey elements of several credit card securitisation structures. She also advises on structured finance deals including equity placings as well as the issue of convertible bonds by Jersey incorporated issuers. Ashley also has extensive experience listing specialist debt securities on The International Stock Exchange (TISE) including the listing of high yield notes, credit-linked notes and variable funding notes on TISE. · Banking & Finance

Ben Morgan

Ben is head of the corporate and finance group in Guernsey and has significant experience in investment funds and corporate law gained from practising with Carey Olsen. Ben advises on the formation of all types of alternative investment funds including hedge funds, property funds and private equity funds as well as banking and finance transactions. He acts for a large number of the well-known private equity fund managers and is recognised as one of the most prominent investment funds lawyers in the Channel Islands by the Legal Media Group’s ‘Expert Guide’ on investment funds.Ben was listed in the International Who's Who Legal of Private Funds Lawyers in 2014. Ben is also a member of Carey Olsen LLP which is the firm's London office. · Investment Funds

Bernadette Carey

Bernadette is the head of our Cayman Islands trusts and private wealth team and has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. She also has significant experience in trust litigation, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust disputes, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes. Bernadette regularly advises high net worth individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, executors, wealth managers, institutional clients, and onshore legal teams on all aspects of trusts and estates law in the Cayman Islands. She is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only and is highly selective. All members must have practiced law in the Academy's areas of interest for at least ten years and must have distinguished themselves through lecturing, writing or participation in professional organizations. They must also have demonstrated a significant interest in the continuing development of the law of their own countries. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client texts, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". Bernadette is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC), and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). She is a director of the Cayman Islands Family Office Association, launched in 2022. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client text books, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". She is also ranked highly by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, features in the 2025 Private Client Global Elite Directory, and was named Top Recommended in the Trusts, Structuring & Offshore category of the 2025 Spear's 500 rankings. · Trusts & Private Wealth

Bradley Houlston

Bradley is counsel in the employment and immigration team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He has more than fourteen years' experience advising clients on the full range of employment matters and frequently represents clients in contentious employment proceedings in the Employment Tribunal, Supreme Court and in arbitration. Bradley has significant expertise in executive disputes, multijurisdictional investigations and the intersection of HR and regulatory issues. In addition to employment matters, Bradley advises on all aspects of Bermuda immigration law, both for corporate and individual clients. He also advises on data protection and privacy matters. Bradley has written frequently on employment and immigration law issues for the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce magazine and in the Royal Gazette. He is a member of the Bermuda Human Resources Association and the Employment Law Association (UK). · Employment

Brian Catalano

Brian is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He maintains a broad general commercial litigation practice. Brian has experience prosecuting and defending complex contractual, shareholder, and construction disputes, oppression and fraud claims, and insurance-related litigation. He has successfully resolved matters for clients through settlement, mediations, summary judgment applications, and at trial. · Litigation

Calvin Lee

Calvin is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate and finance team in Hong Kong. He has broad experience across a range of corporate finance, IPO and equity capital markets, M&A, and other general commercial matters. He also advises on a broad range of debt arrangements, including acquisition, leveraged and real estate financing, structured products, bond issuances, and debt restructuring. · Corporate / M&A

Catherine O\'Connell

Catherine is a senior associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team, based in the British Virgin Islands. Catherine moved to the BVI in 2018 and since then has gained considerable BVI litigation experience. Her caseload has largely involved shareholder disputes, fraud and asset tracing, trust litigation and insolvency proceedings. She has conducted litigation before the BVI Commercial Court, ECSC Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. Catherine has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of corporate disputes, including obtaining injunctive relief and breach of contract claims. · Litigation

Catriona Severns

Catriona is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Charissa Ball

Charissa Ball is counsel in the corporate and finance team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. Charissa advises on all aspects of commercial and corporate law and regularly represents clients on a wide variety of local and cross-jurisdictional corporate and regulatory transactions and restructurings. With a practice spanning a number of specialisations, Charissa has particular experience in corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring, redomiciling, joint ventures and debt and equity offerings. She also has considerable experience in corporate finance including IPOs, private equity investments and banking and financial services including, financial derivatives, credit and security. Charissa is also a senior member of the Carey Olsen fintech team. She has assisted numerous digital asset business companies by advising on the licensing and ongoing regulatory requirements of digital asset companies, including the requirements of Bermuda's anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing and sanctions regimes. · Corporate / M&A

Charlotte Crang

Charlotte is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions. · Corporate / M&A

Charlotte Donnelly

Charlotte is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Charlotte has acted for large pension funds, telecommunication operators and high-net-worth individuals in arbitrations and injunctions. Charlotte has experience in telecoms and property related commercial disputes in the English High Court and Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) where she has secured successful outcomes for her clients. She has also advised on a range of settlements agreements in relation to landlord and tenant disputes. · Litigation

Chris Duncan

Chris Duncan is a partner in the corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He leads Carey Olsen's fintech and digital assets group across both the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, being one of the few Cayman and BVI dual qualified advisors in the fintech space. Chris advises clients on the full spectrum of fintech, crypto and digital assets matters, including, structuring and regulatory advice in connection with decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs), token issuances and early stage fundraising, centralised and decentralised exchanges, wallet providers and VC funds, NFT and gaming platforms and miningstaking operations. In addition, Chris advises clients in the regulated sector in connection with applications under both the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands VASP regimes. With a background in regulatory and tax investigations, Chris also regularly helps clients navigate requests and investigations from local and foreign regulators and authorities, leaning on his regulatory investigations background. Chris has published numerous articles and regularly speaks on panels, webinars and podcasts on all things fintech, crypto and web3. Chris is ranked in Band 2 by Chambers & Partners FinTech and is noted as being "very familiar with the blockchain/Web3 space and developments in Cayman law"and "a very sophisticated and responsive lawyer."Chris was also recently recognised in the Citywealth Top 100 Crypto Advisors for 2022 as a highly accredited advisor. Chris is a registered Trusts and Estates practitioner, and has been recognised in the Citywealth Future Leaders List in 2021, the Top 100 Private Client Lawyers in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Citywealth Lawyer of the Year (IFC) – Senior/Managing Associate category for 2020. Chris is ranked in the Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide with sources noting "he can navigate through matters seamlessly" and that he is "very commercial in his thinking". Chris regularly works on the most innovative and highest profile projects including: The formation of Cayman Islands foundation companies used in conjunction with decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and decentralised projects. Advising institutional stablecoin provider on non-custodial wallet offering under Cayman and BVI law Providing structuring and regulatory advice across the Cayman Islands and the BVI in relation the full spectrum of fintech and digital assets matters, from to private and public token sales and protocol launches to centralised and decentralised exchanges. Advising clients on the implications of the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands Virtual Assets Service Providers Acts and providing assistance with applications for registration under the same, including in connection with novel decentralised finance applications. Assisting Jambo on their significant Series A financing round. Advising clients subject to information requests and enforcement notices and assisting with compliance connected to the same. Advising on a significant pre-IPO restructuring of various Cayman Islands trusts and BVI companies in advance of multi-billion dollar IPO. The creation of a variety of private wealth structures to hold and invest crypto and digital assets. · Fintech & Digital Assets

Chris Philpott

Chris specialises in commercial property, both contentious and non-contentious. He joined Carey Olsen from the office of HM Attorney General for Jersey where he was a Legal Adviser specialising in property transactions and related disputes involving the States of Jersey. Chris leads on all commercial property transactions undertaken by Carey Olsen. He acts for global and local institutions on high profile acquisitions, sales and lettings of commercial property in Jersey. · Real Estate

Christine Fox

Christine, counsel in Jersey's corporate team specialises in real estate finance and Islamic finance. Christine acts for financial institutions, borrowers and trustees in connection with structures involving companies, trusts and partnerships. She has worked in Jersey since 2007 and rejoined Carey Olsen in January 2026 having previously spent eight years in Carey Olsen's Jersey banking and finance team. · Real Estate Finance

Christopher Anderson

Christopher is an advocate with an outstanding reputation both in Guernsey and internationally. He has significant experience in investment funds, insurance and reinsurance and protected and incorporated cell companies. Christopher has built a strong reputation in private equity having advised some of the world’s largest private equity houses as well as new fund promoters in connection with fund establishment, investment structuring, exits and regulatory issues. He has also advised the insurance and reinsurance sector for almost 25 years and has been recognised as one of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers in Expert Guides since 2004. He is also consistently listed in the International Who's Who Legal of Private Funds Lawyers. · Investment Funds

Christopher Griffin

Christopher has broad experience of both general international corporate and funds work with particular expertise in private equity and hedge funds, having spent ten years in the City at Ashurst, RAB Capital plc and most recently at SJ Berwin. Christopher spearheads Carey Olsen's crypto practice, advising on the launch in 2017 of Coinshares Fund I (a venture cap fund investing in crypto assets) and ARC Reserve Currency, Jersey's first initial coin offering or "ICO". Christopher also advises on all aspects of fund and corporate transactions, including the legal and regulatory aspects of fund launches, and joint ventures. He also has considerable experience in dealing with the Jersey Financial Services Commission in navigating investment vehicles through the Jersey regulatory approval process. While at Ashurst and SJ Berwin, he acted for several hedge funds, private equity and venture capital houses in relation to their fund launches, carried interest arrangements and ongoing corporate governance issues, including fund restructurings. During his time at RAB, Christopher set up several funds and advised in relation to the establishment of numerous managed accounts, including several bespoke performance fee mechanisms. More recently, Christopher has advised both managers and investors on the legal aspects of fund restructurings. · Corporate / M&A

Christy Kan

Christy is an associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen's Hong Kong office. She advises on a range of investment fund and corporate matters. Christy is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. · Corporate / M&A

Claire Le Quesne

Claire advises clients in respect of corporate, Jersey funds and banking matters. Her principal practice area is corporate real estate and Jersey funds (both listed and non-listed). Claire has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and portfolio acquisitions and refinancings. She acts mainly borrower/sponsor side on real estate finance transactions as well as for buyer and seller on M&A matters. · Corporate / M&A

Clinton Hempel

Clinton is head of Carey Olsen’s British Virgin Islands Corporate Practice. He has almost 25 years of legal experience in the BVI. Clinton advises on a wide range of BVI corporate, finance and investment funds matters, including fund formation and financing, general corporate and finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements as well as group reorganisations, restructurings and solvent liquidations. Clinton also advises on all aspects of BVI financial services regulation and compliance. · Corporate / M&A

Daniel Long

Daniel is a senior associate in the corporate team based in Guernsey. He advises on fund formation, structuring, management and cross-border financings involving Guernsey companies in addition to general M&A, corporate and commercial transactions. Daniel enjoys working as a team with UK and international onshore law firms and clients to deliver on complex and high value projects. · Corporate / M&A

Daniel O\'Connor

Daniel specialises in the structuring and formation of investment funds, real estate finance and general corporate work. He has extensive transactional experience establishing, restructuring, financing and winding-up a wide range of offshore structures. Daniel is instructed by both global financial institutions and specialist asset managers and works with many of Jersey's leading fund services providers. Daniel's recent transactions include the restructure and refinancing of a joint-venture structures holding German commercial real estate, a range of UK commercial and retail property transactions, creating and restructuring various carried interest distribution structures and establishing a wide range of investment vehicles, including managed account structures, a large European leveraged buy-out fund, a "private equity-style" film financing fund and a large European "private equity style" special situations real estate fund. · Investment Funds

Daniella Carrazana

Daniella is an associate in the corporate group in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. Daniella is experienced in corporate finance work and general corporate matters including company formation, regulatory and corporate governance and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions. · Corporate / M&A

Davey Le Marquand

Davey is a partner in the property department and advises on private client issues with particular expertise on property related matters including inheritance, estate and wealth management and Guernsey business matters. Davey has extensive experience of all types of Guernsey property matters covering both residential and commercial property and on taking security over real property in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Davey continues to develop a large local personal client base and regularly lectures on property and private client matters to local institutions and individuals. He also has a large notarial practice providing notarial services to a wide network of institutional and private clients. · Real Estate

David Crosland

David is partner in Carey Olsen's Corporate team. David undertakes a wide range of corporate transactions with a particular experience in the launch of investment funds. He is regularly instructed by fund managers, UK and international law firms and other financial services firms on the launch, administration, restructuring and listing of both closed and open-ended investment funds. As well as private funds, David has advised funds that are listed on the LSE, AIM, Euronext and TISE. · Banking & Finance

David Jones

David is an advocate and head of the restructuring and insolvency team in Guernsey. He advises on complex restructurings and formal insolvencies in contentious, non-contentious and multi-jurisdictional matters. In his time with Carey Olsen David has been involved in many of the largest insolvencies involving Guernsey entities and global retailers. He is able to assist lenders in respect of the taking and enforcement of all forms of security. David regularly advises the boards of distressed entities and has extensive experience acting for office holders on all aspects of their appointments including the tracing and recovery of assets. David is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and R3 and sits on the young members Committee of INSOL International. David lectures on INSOL's Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency and is part of the working group tasked with updating and revising Guernsey's insolvency laws. He has also been appointed as a member of Guernsey's first ever Insolvency Rules Committee (IRC). David is listed in Who's Who Legal for Restructuring & Insolvency and Asset Recovery and is ranked in Chambers Global and The Legal 500 2024 editions. Clients say that David is "the best person in Guernsey for insolvency and restructuring work" and "He is a thought-leader in the industry, He's a very good advocate and comes up with innovative solutions to issues." · Restructuring & Insolvency

David Taylor

David is a partner in the Jersey corporate group. His practice covers a broad area of Jersey corporate and finance law, with a particular focus on M&A, private equity, corporate real estate, equity capital markets and debt and restructuring transactions. Representative clients include: Nordic Capital Canary Wharf Group Lloyds Bank International LCN Capital Partners RoundShield Partners Bridgepoint Advisers Exponent Private Equity Livingbridge Jersey Development Company Stride Gaming PLC XLMedia PLC Wentworth Resources PLC GlobalLogic Checkout Payments Group various ad hoc shareholder groups on activist matters / shareholder rights various ad hoc creditors and lenders on financing and restructuring transactions · Corporate / M&A

Dean Robson

Dean is counsel in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team based in the BVI. His practice includes a range of commercial litigation matters with a focus on cross-border litigation, corporate insolvency, and contentious trusts work. Dean was named as one of eprivateclient's Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 private client practitioners in 2020 and 2021 before making both the Channel Islands and UK lists in 2022. Dean co-authored the Chambers Global Litigation and Lexology Restructuring and Insolvency practice guides for Jersey. He is a member of INSOL and the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA). · Dispute Resolution

Denis Olarou

Denis is a partner in the firm's dispute resolution, litigation and insolvency practice. He advises on the laws of the Cayman Islands and of the British Virgin Islands. Denis has over a decade of experience in helping clients resolve complex high-value multi-jurisdictional disputes. His broad practice spans all aspects of insolvency litigation, fraud litigation, shareholder and partnership disputes, as well as general contract and tort claims, including applications for urgent injunctive relief. Denis has also represented clients in international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and advised on the enforcement of arbitral awards. Denis acts for insolvency practitioners, corporates, high net worth individuals and government entities. He has acted for clients from a wide variety of jurisdictions, including in particular the FSU, and the East Asia region. Denis entered the rankings in Chambers & Partners for the first time as an associate in 2018, and maintained his ranking in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Denis has published a number of articles on the subjects of insolvency, litigation, arbitration, and anti-corruption regulations. He has given numerous presentations on the subjects of enforcement, injunctive relief, and asset tracing at a variety of conferences. · Litigation

Dhanshuklal Vekaria

Dhanshuklal Vekaria is partner in the dispute resolution and insolvency team in Hong Kong. He has a broad range of experience in the offshore and general commercial litigation context most recently advising and acting in relation to the liquidation and winding up of a number of offshore private corporates, trust and fund structures, disputes in relation to private client trusts, fair valuation disputes, injunction and freezing orders and corporate restructuring disputes. Dhanshuklal is an experienced commercial litigator and advocate with particular expertise in valuation disputes. · Litigation

Dylan Wiltermuth

Dylan has extensive experience in all aspects of corporate work, including joint ventures, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, funds finance and structured finance transactions, including credit-linked and equity derivative trades, preference share financings, arbitrage and other tax structured transactions, index-linked and credit-linked note issues and structured repo and stock lending transactions. Dylan maintains a strong focus on public company work, private equity, financial services, and energy spheres. He has spent many years advising clients on complex cross-border transactions across a wide range of jurisdictions and has a demonstrable track record of success in mitigating risk and delivering results. Commercially astute, Dylan is a transactional lawyer with a reputation for implementing complicated deals in a straightforward manner. · Corporate / M&A

Elaine Gray

Elaine is partner and head of Carey Olsen's Guernsey dispute resolution and litigation team and is also deputy managing partner of Carey Olsen in Guernsey. She advises clients on commercial and trust litigation, and on employment, data protection, regulatory, competition and intellectual property matters. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in these fields and appears regularly in courts and tribunals at all levels in Guernsey. Elaine is immediate-past President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Chancery Bar Association. She was previously appointed to the Population Employment Advisory Panel as representative of Guernsey's financial service industry. Elaine was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation to the Guernsey Bar from 2018 to 2022. Elaine is a Certified International Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). · Litigation

Elizabeth Killeen

Elizabeth is a partner in the firm's corporate and finance practice. She qualified as a lawyer in London before moving to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in 2008, to specialise in BVI law. Elizabeth has a broad range of experience in corporate, commercial and financial transactions. She advises on cross-border debt and equity financing, joint venture arrangements, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, aircraft and other asset financing, continuations in and out of the BVI, corporate governance, corporate reorganisations, directors' duties and voluntary liquidations. She also specialises in providing regulatory advice to licensees, economic substance requirements, VASP applications, compliance matters and investment funds. · Corporate / M&A

Ella Crowley-Burrows

Ella is an associate in the corporate team of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of banking and finance matters including fund finance, structured finance, asset finance and loans of stablecoins and other digital assets. · Banking & Finance

Elliot Aron

Elliot is an advocate and counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation group. He advises international and local clients on a wide range of contentious matters, specialising in complex and high-value commercial and trust disputes. Elliot is an experienced litigator in both domestic and foreign courts and has worked extensively on cases with challenging international and cross-border elements. · Litigation

Emily Cornhill

Emily is a partner in Carey Olsen’s corporate team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on investment funds. Emily regularly advises on the establishment of investment funds in the Cayman Islands and also advises investment funds and other vehicles on transactional, financing and compliance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Emma Penney

Emma is a senior associate in the corporate and finance. Emma has experience in advising clients on a wide range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, open and closed-ended investment funds in Guernsey and also undertakes a range of finance transactions. · Corporate / M&A

Eng How Cheow

Eng How is a member of the corporate practice based in Singapore. His areas of expertise span general corporate matters, banking and finance, as well as fintech, cryptocurrency and digital assets. For general corporate matters, he advises on a wide range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements as well as regulatory and compliance matters. For banking and finance, he acts for both financial institutions (as lenders, agents and MLAs) and corporations (as borrowers) on acquisition financing, real estate financing, syndicated financing as well as secured and unsecured general corporate financing. Last, in relation to fintech and digital assets, he advices on the setting up digital assets related structures, token issuance, early stage fund raising, and assists with Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASP) applications. · Corporate / M&A

Erinn O\'Brien

Erinn is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. She advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and commercial law. Erinn has notable and varied corporate, commercial, and regulatory experience, having worked with multinational companies, financial institutions, and other stakeholders on various complex matters. · Corporate / M&A