Karen Le Cras
Karen is a partner and general counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation Group in Guernsey. She specialises in corporate and commercial disputes, with a particular emphasis on banking, finance and trusts litigation and asset tracing and freezing orders. Karen also frequently advises companies, shareholders and directors in relation to corporate insolvency matters, and banks on enforcement of security. Karen also advises in relation to regulatory matters, including regulatory investigations. Karen has wide advocacy experience and appears frequently before the Guernsey Courts. Karen's work often involves cross-border and conflicts of law issues. Karen's clients include local trust companies and retail banks, private companies, international investment banks, insurers and accountants. Karen is frequently instructed by leading law firms, both in the UK and elsewhere. Karen is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Experts and the Institute of Directors. Karen is listed in Who's Who Legal for Commercial Litigation, Private Client and Asset Recovery. · Carey Olsen
About
Karen Le Cras is a partner at Carey Olsen in Guernsey and serves as the firm's Global General Counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation group. She specialises in corporate and commercial disputes—particularly banking, finance and trusts litigation, asset tracing and freezing orders—and regularly advises on corporate insolvency, enforcement of security and regulatory investigations, often in cross-border matters and appears before the Guernsey Courts.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Kingston University (LLB Hons, 1994)
- Inns of Court School of Law (1995)
- Université de Caen (Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Françaises et Normandes, 2002)
Admissions
- Called to the Bar (England & Wales), 1995
- Solicitor of England & Wales, January 1999
- Advocate of the Guernsey Bar, called July 2003