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Helena Lavin

Helena Lavin is a Partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Group, specialising in contentious trust and insolvency matters. She is a Guernsey Advocate and has been practising in Guernsey for around eleven years– prior to that she worked in the Middle East, and with a leading national law firm in England. Helena has broad expertise acting for and advising predominantly international clients in disputes often with a multi-jurisdictional element. She is a founder of the Channel Islands Chapter of the International Womens Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and she has a particular interest in contentious insolvency and trust matters. Her cases have involved acting for trustees beneficiaries and other parties to trusts in seeking disclosure from trustees, obtaining injunctive relief pertaining to trust assets, applications to vary trusts and challenged Beddoe applications. She also has extensive experience acting for insolvency office holders, directors, shareholders and other stakeholders and corporate entities in a wide range of disputes covering breach of fiduciary duties, professional negligence, enforcement of judgments and contested winding up proceedings. · Walkers

GuernseyContentious Trust, InsolvencyEnglish

About

Helena Lavin is a Partner at Walkers in Guernsey. She specialises in contentious trust and insolvency matters, acting for trustees, beneficiaries, insolvency office-holders, directors, and shareholders in multi-jurisdictional disputes. She is the founder of the Channel Islands Chapter of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation.

Practice areas

Contentious TrustInsolvencyDispute ResolutionBreach of Fiduciary DutyProfessional NegligenceEnforcement of JudgmentsWinding-Up Proceedings

Office

Expertise

acting for trustees, beneficiaries, and other parties in trust disputes (disclosure from trustees, injunctive relief, variation of trusts, Beddoe applications)acting for insolvency office-holders, directors, shareholders, and corporate entities in disputes (breach of fiduciary duties, professional negligence, judgment enforcement, contested winding-up proceedings)

Education

  • LPC, BPP Law School, London, UK
  • PgDL, BPP Law School, London, UK
  • BA (Hons) English, University of Liverpool, UK

Admissions

  • England and Wales (not practising)
  • Guernsey

Languages

English