Lawyers in Guernsey
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169 lawyers listed
Ben Newton
Ben is an Associate in the Guernsey office. He has advised on a number of cases in Guernsey, as well as cross-jurisdictional matters, involving our areas of expertise including: contentious risk and regulatory matters; contentious trusts; insolvency and restructuring; debt enforcement; and corporate, director and shareholder disputes. Ben previously gained experience at the firm as a paralegal and trainee solicitor where he completed seats in the firm's Corporate, Finance and Funds, International Private Client and Trusts and UK Property teams, as well as the Dispute Resolution team.
Collas Crill
Bryan De Verneuil-Smith
Partner
Ogier
Bryon Rees
Partner
Ogier
Cassie Wade
Cassie joined Bedell Cristin in March 2016. She was educated at Regents Park Girls School, Southampton and went on to complete a BSc (Hons) in Criminology at the University of Southampton. Cassie then went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law in 2015 and completed the BPTC in November 2019. Cassie has previously worked at Haskins Legal and AFR Advocates and has good experience in various areas of law including private client and litigation.
Bedell Cristin
Catherine Moore
Partner
Ogier
Cerisse Fisher
Cerisse is a Group Partner in Guernsey. She specialises in all aspects of Guernsey trust and private client law and regularly advises trustees, family offices, high net worth individuals and intermediaries on the creation, restructuring and winding up of trusts and a wide scope of cross-jurisdictional fiduciary transactions. Cerisse has invaluable experience working within a trust company on both legal and direct client matters. She has a broad knowledge of the challenges and pitfalls for trustees plus the practical aspects of trusteeship and requirements of corporate service providers and their clients.
Collas Crill
Chantal Barrett
As Counsel in the firm's Guernsey Litigation team, Chantal is a highly experienced advocate with a broad-based commercial litigation practice. Chantal has a broad-based commercial disputes practice with a particular expertise in regulatory, trust and insurance law including disciplinary and regulatory proceedings for legal and financial professionals, contentious trust, D&O policy coverage disputes and insurance litigation.
Mourant
Chris Hards
Partner
Ogier
Chris Hutley-Hurst
Chris Hutley-Hurst heads up the Walkers' Channel Islands Regulatory and Risk Advisory Group. Chris is a Guernsey Advocate, with more than 20 years' experience in private practice in Guernsey, London and New York. He specialises in financial services regulation, digital assets and corporate tax. Chris advises on Guernsey regulatory matters, covering fintech, digital assets, financial services, licensing regimes, consumer lending, data protection and GDPR, beneficial ownership and anti-money laundering. He advises various financial services businesses, including banks, payment providers, CSPs, fund administrators and asset managers. Having worked as a tax lawyer previously, he has a unique experience in international tax matters, including VAT and GST. He advises on Guernsey and Jersey corporate tax (including Pillar 2), economic substance requirements, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the OECD's Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), together with other initiatives. Chris is the author of the Bloomberg Tax Guide Guernsey chapter. He is also a board member for the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce.
Walkers
Christian Hay
Christian is among the leading commercial litigators at the Guernsey Bar with a particular expertise in contentious trust related matters and corporate disputes. He leads a team of talented lawyers across Guernsey, Jersey and Cayman with strong expertise in contentious and non-contentious trust and estate matters. Christian is a CEDR-accredited mediator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He regularly acts as mediator or arbitrator in trust, financial services and commercial disputes in Guernsey and Jersey.
Collas Crill
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.
Carey Olsen
Christopher Edwards
Christopher joined the firm in January 2002 from Australia and was called to the Guernsey Bar in 2005. He specialises in complex commercial and trust litigation and provides advice to a range of financial institutions and fiduciaries, with particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional disputes. In addition Christopher has a particular interest in regulatory and compliance matters, having obtained Diplomas in Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering, and regularly advises on a number of routine and non-routine matters including liaising with the GFSC, police and the FIU. Christopher also has expertise in relation to cross border assistance in tax and money laundering issues.
Mourant
Christopher Jones
Partner
Ogier
Craig Cordle
Craig Cordle is a Partner in Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds & Corporate Practice Group specialising in all aspects of the structuring, restructuring, merger, sale, establishment and operation of listed and private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, single asset vehicles/SPACs and other collective investment arrangements. In addition, Craig advises on the merger and acquisition of private and listed companies, schemes of arrangement and regulatory and competition issues. Craig is an asset management lawyer with 14 years' experience in private practice, most of which was spent in the asset management, funds and capital markets teams of two leading international law firms in the City of London. Since moving to Guernsey in 2016, and re-qualifying as a Guernsey Advocate, he continues to work with a number of vehicles listed on exchanges in London and across Europe, including The International Stock Exchange (TISE). He has been consistently recognised for the quality of his advice by Chambers UK, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. Admitted in: Guernsey – 2018 England & Wales - 2008
Walkers
Daisy Fakude
Daisy is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey. She advises on various aspects of commercial litigation and dispute resolution. She has experience regarding a wide range of contentious dispute resolution matters including commercial disputes, contractual disputes, debt and asset recovery, shareholder disputes, director liability disputes, contentious trust disputes, insolvency matters and insolvency related court proceedings. She has acted for various stakeholders including large corporations, creditors (mostly corporations and financial institutions), liquidators, trustees and high net worth individuals. Notable work highlights include: Successfully defending a trustee of two guernsey trusts and the corporate director of a company within the trust structure in a claim before the Royal Court for losses which were allegedly suffered by the trusts owing to the gross negligence of the trustee in respect to the administration of the assets of the trusts. As well as further loses which allegedly arose as a result of the corporate director breaching its fiduciary duties in its capacity as the director of the underlying company within the trust structure [A Kazzaz and others v Standard Chartered Trust (Guernsey) Ltd (in liquidation) & Songbird Limited [2023] GRC049]. The claims in the aforesaid proceedings involved complex issues of trust, regulatory, commercial and insolvency law. Acting for an erstwhile fund administrator to defend claims in the region of US$18 million brought by the liquidators of a Guernsey fund; Acting for a beneficiary of three Guernsey trusts (with combined assets in excess of £600 million) in connection with various contentious proceedings before the Royal Court. Acting for a director of a Guernsey fiduciary services provider in connection with regulatory enforcement proceedings brought by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. Advising an erstwhile trustee in connection with a breach of trust claim brought by a beneficiary of the trust arising from the transfer of the entirety of the trust fund out of the trust, and the resultant termination of the trust. Prior experience: Acting for various shareholders of the Steinhoff Group regarding their claims (cumulatively in excess of R2 billion) arising from the reduction in value of their shares following the major accounting scandal in December 2017. Acting for the business rescue practitioner of five companies within a leading South African construction group regarding various issues arising from the business rescue process, including the cancellation or suspension of the companies’ obligations under various contracts, preparing and/or reviewing post commencement finance agreements and advising the business rescue practitioner on the restructure of the group. Acting for the liquidators of two South African companies regarding the investigation and institution of proceedings against the former directors of the companies in order to hold the directors personally liable for the debts of the companies (which were in excess of R500 million). Acting for a prominent South African Bank regarding its R80 million claim against an Irish debtor arising from the debtor’s default under various loan agreements concluded and implemented in South Africa.
Appleby
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.
Carey Olsen
Danielle Brouard
Danielle Brouard is a Senior Counsel in the Walkers' Employment practice group and advises on all aspects of employment law, focusing in particular on discrimination and employment-related disputes. Danielle spent 14 years practising in the London office of a major international law firm, working across the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Her core practice involves: drafting and negotiating employment documentation, including restrictive covenants assisting with HR processes and employee relations matters representing clients in employment tribunal litigation advising on employment aspects of transactions assisting with the relocation of employees into Guernsey advising on pension issues Danielle also has in-house experience, having undertaken a six-month client secondment with British Airways, advising on employee relations and trade union issues.
Walkers
Darren Bacon
Darren is a Partner at Mourant Ozannes (Guernsey) LLP in the Guernsey Corporate practice specialising in investment funds in a range of sectors, including infrastructure, private equity, real estate and debt, acting for both listed and private structures. He also regularly advises on a range of corporate transactions.
Mourant
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.
Carey Olsen
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.
Carey Olsen
David Jeffery
David is a Senior Associate in the Guernsey office. He has more than 15 years' experience of general litigation, with a particular focus on contentious wills and estates, as well as high value personal injury and complex medical negligence actions. David advises on all aspects of contentious wills and estates matters, including claims for financial provision under the Inheritance (Guernsey) Law, 2011, challenges to the validity of a Will on the grounds of undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval, and also contested executorship applications. His personal injury and medical negligence practice sees him accept instructions from both Plaintiffs and Defendants, and has represented some of the largest insurers in the UK. He has a particular focus on high-value RTAs, complex brain injury and birth defect/traumatic birth cases. David is also admitted as solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the territory of the Virgin Islands, where he has been heavily involved in providing assistance to our BVI Dispute Resolution Team in a number of significant medical negligence cases being litigated in the BVI High Court
Collas Crill
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."
Carey Olsen
David Moore
David has more than 40 years' experience in corporate law, having practised for 30 years in Guernsey and 10 years in London prior to that. He specialises in corporate finance, insurance, offshore funds, employment law, trusts and regulatory issues and is highly regarded as one of Guernsey's leading corporate lawyers. He is also a non-executive director of a number of investment and insurance companies, both listed and unlisted.
Collas Crill
David O\"Hanlon
David has more than 40 years' experience in corporate law, having practised for 30 years in Guernsey and 10 years in London prior to that. He specialises in corporate finance, insurance, offshore funds, employment law, trusts and regulatory issues and is highly regarded as one of Guernsey's leading corporate lawyers. He is also a non-executive director of a number of investment and insurance companies, both listed and unlisted. David has acted for trustees, investment banks and beneficiaries in contentious or semi-contentious matters, such as defending trustees against claims for breach of trust, acting in relation to variations of trust and advising trustees and beneficiaries on their obligations and rights in respect of the trusts. Recent public matters include: Walker et al –v- Egerton-Vernon et al in which David acted for one of the former trustees of a settlement established by the late entrepreneur Jack Walker in defending a claim in excess of £100 million (and settled on confidential terms). Corporate Disputes David advises directors, shareholders and corporate service providers on contentious corporate matters such as shareholder or board disputes, claims against directors and advice on issues such as potential conflicts of interest. Recent work includes acting for the Independent Directors in Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in liquidation) and ors –v- Conway Jr and ors in their successful defence of a claim for in excess of $1 billion brought by the liquidators of Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in liquidation).
Collas Crill