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Sarah-Jane Hall

Sarah-Jane is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team, based in Guernsey. She acts for individuals, trustees, executors and family offices on a broad array of contentious and non-contentious private client matters. She has extensive experience providing guidance on the establishment, reorganisation, administration and termination of complex wealth planning structures. She also advises on wills and estate planning, and on probate and reseal applications. In addition, she has experience assisting clients seeking to obtain residency in the Cayman Islands. Sarah-Jane has advised on a number of trust disputes which include challenges to validity; variation; the removal of trustees; setting aside trustee decisions; advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; and advising trustees in relation to divorce. · Carey Olsen

Cayman Islands, GuernseyTrusts and Private Wealth, Private Client

About

Senior associate in Carey Olsen’s trusts and private wealth team, based in Guernsey, acting for individuals, trustees, executors and family offices on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious private client matters. She advises on the establishment, reorganisation, administration and termination of complex wealth planning structures, wills and probate (including reseal applications), residency applications for the Cayman Islands and a range of trust disputes ( validity challenges, variation, trustee removal, setting aside trustee decisions and trustee advice in divorce and other contentious circumstances).

Practice areas

Trusts and Private WealthPrivate ClientLitigationFamily OfficeWills & ProbateRelocation ServicesTaxation and Economic Substance

Offices

Cayman Islands

Carey Olsen · Sarah-Jane is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team, based in Guernsey. She acts for individuals, trustees, executors and family offices on a broad array of contentious and non-contentious private client matters. She has extensive experience providing guidance on the establishment, reorganisation, administration and termination of complex wealth planning structures. She also advises on wills and estate planning, and on probate and reseal applications. In addition, she has experience assisting clients seeking to obtain residency in the Cayman Islands. Sarah-Jane has advised on a number of trust disputes which include challenges to validity; variation; the removal of trustees; setting aside trustee decisions; advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; and advising trustees in relation to divorce.

Cayman Islands

Guernsey

Carey Olsen · Sarah-Jane is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team, based in Guernsey. She acts for individuals, trustees, executors and family offices on a broad array of contentious and non-contentious private client matters. She has extensive experience providing guidance on the establishment, reorganisation, administration and termination of complex wealth planning structures. She also advises on wills and estate planning, and on probate and reseal applications. In addition, she has experience assisting clients seeking to obtain residency in the Cayman Islands. Sarah-Jane has advised on a number of trust disputes which include challenges to validity; variation; the removal of trustees; setting aside trustee decisions; advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; and advising trustees in relation to divorce.

Guernsey

Expertise

Complex wealth planning structuresTrust administration and reorganisationTrust disputes (validity challenges, variation, trustee removal, setting aside decisions)Wills and estate planningProbate and reseal applicationsResidency applications for the Cayman Islands

Education

  • History, King's College London

Admissions

  • Qualified as a tax and private client solicitor (2017)
  • Full member, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)