Lawyers in Guernsey
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169 lawyers listed
Aaron Sanders
Senior Associate
Walkers
Abel Lyall
Abel's practice covers all areas of commercial and financial disputes, with a focus on financial institutions, investment funds and trusts. He specialises in insolvency matters, and has extensive experience acting for creditors, directors, shareholders and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of contentious insolvency and asset recovery. Abel also advises on regulatory issues, and has acted for financial institutions in a number of significant regulatory investigations and proceedings.
Mourant
Abigail Houghton
Abi joined Bedell Cristin in May 2022 having previously worked as a solicitor in London. Abi has experience of dealing with a broad range of commercial matters including telecommunications, professional negligence and more recently collective actions. Abi completed a Law degree at the University of Kent before undertaking the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law in Moorgate. Whilst completing her training contract at a boutique law firm in London, Abi completed an MSc in Law and Finance at the Queen Mary University of London.
Bedell Cristin
Adam Cole
Advocate Adam Cole is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution team, with wide commercial litigation experience and a particular interest in contentious insolvency matters, regulatory enforcement referrals and trust disputes. He has been practising for over a decade and has been admitted in Guernsey since 2014. Prior to that Adam worked with a major international firm in London, specialising in insurance-related litigation. Adam is a member of the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES) and was awarded a Distinction for the STEP Advanced Certificate in International Trusts Disputes.
Walkers
Alana Gillies Ridout
Alana is Partner in the Mourant Guernsey Corporate practice. She provides advice on all aspects of Guernsey corporate law. Alana moved to Guernsey to join Mourant Ozannes in May 2014 and specialises in Private M&A, Banking and Finance and Commercial Contracts. She acts for a diverse client base including private limited companies, funds, institutional lenders and individuals (local and international). Some of her key clients include SGG Group (now IQ EQ), Brookfield, WPP Group, EFG Private Bank, HSBC and the ARM Insurance Group.
Mourant
Alasdair Davidson
Alasdair is a partner and the head of the litigation team and the international private client practice in Guernsey. He has been in practice for over 25 years and, before qualifying in Guernsey, not only practised as a barrister in England but also spent several years working in the Caribbean. He is instructed by law firms and institutional clients based worldwide and has acted for most of Guernsey’s leading fiduciaries, fund providers and banks. Alasdair has a genuine depth of experience having handled a great variety of contentious and non-contentious matters covering most corporate, insolvency and fiduciary fields including appearing before a wide variety of courts and tribunals worldwide. He has particular expertise and established track record in conducting complex high value cross-border work both in Guernsey and the BVI. Alasdair is also a Guernsey Notary Public.
Bedell Cristin
Alex Horsbrugh-Porter
Partner
Ogier
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".
Carey Olsen
Alex Wickens
Alex Wickens is a group partner* in the Guernsey Banking & Finance team specialising in real estate finance, fund finance and acquisition finance. Alex has over 12 years' experience advising lenders and borrowers on all aspects of Guernsey banking & finance law from lending, to non-contentious restructuring and security enforcement. He advises on financings to complex real estate holding structures, including property unit trust structures and structures established to be shariah law compliant. Alex advises sponsors, private credit and traditional lenders on a range of acquisition finance transactions, but predominantly in respect of mid-market acquisitions of infrastructure and financial services targets acquired through Guernsey acquisition stacks. He also advises on all aspects of fund finance, including subscription line, net asset value and hybrid facilities. *not admitted in Guernsey and not a member of Walkers (Guernsey) LLP
Walkers
Alexander Hawkins
Alexander is the Head of our International Private Client team in Guernsey. He practices in all areas of contentious and non-contentious private client and succession matters. He advises UHNW families, family offices, trustees, as well as settlors, beneficiaries and protectors, about all aspects of Guernsey trust law and administration. Alexander has an international practice, advising families and fiduciary businesses in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. He also assists local families in Guernsey with their succession planning and advises executors/administrators about the administration of deceased estates in Guernsey, including applications for probate/letters of administration. Alexander is recognised within the industry and by his peers as one of the most reliable trust lawyers in the Channel Islands.
Bedell Cristin
Alison Antill
Advocate & Associate
Walkers
Alison Wood
Alison is a Senior Associate in the Guernsey Property department, and has nearly 25 years' experience within Mourant Ozannes. Alison has extensive experience in all types of Guernsey commercial property transactions including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters, commercial lending and borrowing. She also has expertise in acting for developers of commercial properties, including construction and development documentation and the production of schedule documents.
Mourant
Amy Davies
Amy is a Senior Associate and Advocate in Guernsey. Her practice encompasses a wide range of work, including criminal, financial services disputes and regulatory. Amy has a wealth of advocacy experience, having spent 10 years working as a criminal lawyer in England and Wales. She assists individuals both at the police station and in Court, specialising in the defence of white collar and general crime. In addition to her criminal practice, Amy assists financial services businesses and their clients in all aspects of legal and regulatory work, including advising on: the formal and informal freezing of funds; the forfeiture of funds; the Guernsey disclosure and consent regime; and the potential regulatory implications of such matters.
Collas Crill
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.
Carey Olsen
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.
Carey Olsen
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.
Carey Olsen
Angela Calnan
Angela has been a Partner in our multi-award winning private client and trusts team in Guernsey since 2012. Angela's core strengths are in establishing, reorganising and winding up Guernsey trust and foundation structures (including pension and gratuity schemes) and also assisting trustees in navigating the administration of those structures in accordance with their fiduciary duties. As a former litigator prior to moving to Guernsey, Angela is great at spotting thorny issues early and assisting trustees and beneficiaries to resolve conflict before things escalate into litigation. Day to day, Angela's caseload is very varied. Recently she has established private trust companies and private trustee foundations with multiple underlying trusts and companies for both domestic and international families in conjunction with some of the UK's leading City firms. She has established multi-million dollar pensions and end of service gratuity schemes for multiple UAE companies and she has also assisted trustees in deliberating "momentous decisions" and mediating the interests of warring beneficiaries.
Collas Crill
Anna Okewole
Anna is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey. Anna has experience representing both individuals and corporate clients in a wide range of complex, high value, multi-jurisdictional disputes. Anna has acted in claims involving allegations of conspiracy, dishonesty, misappropriation of funds, shareholder disputes, as well as asset recovery and asset tracing matters. Anna has also advised individual and corporate clients on the UK sanctions regulations and co-ordinated international sanctions advice from the US, EU and other jurisdictions. Prior to joining Appleby in February 2025, Anna worked in the UK at Mishcon de Reya.
Appleby
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.
Carey Olsen
Anthony Williams
Anthony is Head of Dispute Resolution in Guernsey. Anthony is an experienced trial and appellate advocate. He has significant experience in many areas of corporate litigation and dispute resolution. Anthony has a particular expertise in high value and complex commercial litigation, with particular focus on investment fund disputes, regulatory enforcement, contentious insolvency matters, asset-tracing and recovery work, and trust litigation. Anthony’s experience includes: Acting for certain directors to defend claims in the region of USD 1 billion brought by the liquidators of a parent company based in Guernsey. Advising and acting in Aareal Bank AG v JJW Limited, at first instance [2020] GRC 046 and on appeal [2021] GCA 021 which involved the first reported case in Guernsey concerning a contested compulsory winding up application. Acting for the successful Defendant in Rusnano v CRGF, proceedings before the Royal Court of Guernsey to terminate a Limited Partnership. Acting in Rusnano Capital v Molard International [2019] GRC011 and in the Guernsey Court of Appeal [2019] GCA077, which involved the question whether a sole beneficiary of a discretionary trust can call for distribution of the trust assets under Saunders v Vautier where the protector has a power to add further beneficiaries. Advising HSBC on the transfer of their banking business in Guernsey pursuant to a scheme of arrangement as part of a wider restructuring of the banking business in the UK. This was the first court sanctioned scheme of this kind in Guernsey. Winning an appeal to the Guernsey Court of Appeal on behalf of a Trustee in relation to an application by a beneficiary to terminate the trust. This is the leading decision in Guernsey with respect to the application of the common law rule in Saunders v Vautier. Winning an appeal to the Guernsey Court of Appeal on behalf of a Beneficiary in relation to an application to set aside various dispositions into trust. This is the leading decision in Guernsey with respect to the rule in Hastings Bass. Winning an appeal to the Guernsey Court of Appeal in relation to the scope and applicability of Directors’ indemnities. This case created new law in relation to the presumptive basis on which Directors take the benefit of indemnities contained in the Articles of Association. Appearing as trial advocate successfully representing a beneficiary of a trust in relation to a claim that certain trust assets be distributed to her. This case is the leading financial crime decision in Guernsey with respect to the scope and applicability of suspicious activity reports and the statutory “no consent” regime. Appearing as trial advocate representing a former senior executive defending claims of fraud with respect to the ownership of an LP. The trial involved extensive cross examination of multiple factual and expert witnesses. The decision has been reserved. Obtaining a freezing injunction and wide ranging disclosure orders as part of a worldwide claim arising out of complex and high value litigation in the UK. Obtaining an administration order in in respect of a number of Guernsey investment companies, forming part of a wider UK property holding structure, as part of a plan of restructuring to rescue the group as a going concern. The reorganisation involved the proposed restructuring of a secured loan facility in excess of £700million, and the managed disposal of an extensive portfolio of UK commercial real estate assets. Appearing for the acquirer in relation to the successful CAN$775million takeover of the NYX Gaming Group by way of contested scheme of arrangement. Acting for a global bank in connection with claw back claims instituted by the US Trustee of Madoff and the Liquidators of Fairfield. Acting on behalf of a number of Guernsey financial services businesses in connection with regulatory enforcement action for breaches of AML / CFT legalisation including advising with respect to compliance issues and remediation projects.
Appleby
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.
Carey Olsen
Ben Havard
Ben is a Guernsey Advocate and Partner of Collas Crill in Guernsey. His practice is focused on contentious and semi-contentious trust work, advising both trustees and beneficiaries and appearing in the Royal Court in Guernsey on those matters. He has a particular interest in the issues around the succession to wealth by the next generation. Recent work: Acting for the beneficiary of a trust in a proposed restructuring of an UHNW family's wealth following a dispute with their trustee. Planning for the splintering-off of our client's interests, and negotiating the necessary protections. Acting for the corporate trustee of a discretionary trust settled for the benefit of the Settlor's children. The Settlor was domiciled in a jurisdiction in which Sharia law would have applied on succession. The trust imported aspects of Sharia law, while also providing for the settlor's daughters. A family dispute resulted in various challenges relating to the trust. Acting for the corporate trustee of a trust during the course of a significant family dispute. The aim was to divide the assets of the trust against a lack of any agreement between the beneficiaries as to how that should be done. Acting for two beneficiaries of a Guernsey trust in an application seeking disclosure of information from the trustees (who were family members) – Patel v Patel (Judgment 36/2016)
Collas Crill
Ben Le Page
Ben is an Advocate and Senior Associate in Guernsey. Ben advises on all aspects of commercial law with a particular focus on banking and finance (including real estate finance, Islamic finance and fund finance), mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Ben regularly works with our BVI, Cayman and Jersey corporate and trust teams on cross-jurisdictional finance, corporate and trust matters. Ben also assists the Corporate, Finance and Funds team in their other core areas including funds, data protection and risk and regulatory.
Collas Crill
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.
Carey Olsen