Lawyers in Guernsey
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169 lawyers listed
Diana Collas
Senior Associate
Ogier
Dylan Latimer
Dylan is a Partner in the Corporate Department in Guernsey. Dylan has considerable expertise in a wide range of corporate, banking and investment fund matters. He specialises in banking and finance (including real estate finance, fund finance and security enforcement), M&A and investment funds. He also advises on insurance matters including captives and reinsurance structures. Dylan trained at Maples and Calder in Dublin. Prior to joining Appleby, he was a Partner at an international law firm in Guernsey.
Appleby
Elaine Gray
Elaine is partner and head of Carey Olsen's Guernsey dispute resolution and litigation team and is also deputy managing partner of Carey Olsen in Guernsey. She advises clients on commercial and trust litigation, and on employment, data protection, regulatory, competition and intellectual property matters. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in these fields and appears regularly in courts and tribunals at all levels in Guernsey. Elaine is immediate-past President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Chancery Bar Association. She was previously appointed to the Population Employment Advisory Panel as representative of Guernsey's financial service industry. Elaine was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation to the Guernsey Bar from 2018 to 2022. Elaine is a Certified International Privacy Professional (CIPP/E).
Carey Olsen
Elena Gogh
Elena is a Group Partner at Collas Crill based in Guernsey. She advises trustees, individuals, financial institutions and family offices in relation to trust, succession planning and regulatory issues.
Collas Crill
Elliot Aron
Elliot is an advocate and counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation group. He advises international and local clients on a wide range of contentious matters, specialising in complex and high-value commercial and trust disputes. Elliot is an experienced litigator in both domestic and foreign courts and has worked extensively on cases with challenging international and cross-border elements.
Carey Olsen
Emma Taylor
Emma is an Advocate and Senior Associate in Guernsey. Emma advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on contentious and semi-contentious trust matters. She regularly advises corporate trustees and beneficiaries alike on the full spectrum of trust disputes from breach of trust claims to information requests. In addition to trust matters, Emma regularly assists clients in respect of commercial disputes and contentious risk and regulatory matters, including enforcement action. Emma also has considerable experience acting for Insured parties.
Collas Crill
Fay Warrilow
Counsel
Ogier
Frances Watson
Frances 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. She also regularly advises on a range of corporate transactions.
Mourant
Gabrielle Payne
Senior Associate
Ogier
Gareth Bell
Gareth is a litigation lawyer who specialises in trust, company (including directors' duties), insolvency, professional negligence and other financial services disputes. He also has an active practice in semi-contentious trust matters. A qualified Guernsey Advocate, Gareth is also the firm's Guernsey Managing Partner. Gareth has been involved in a number of trials in the Royal Court of Guernsey and several appeals to the Court of Appeal and Privy Council. He acted for the successful non-executive director defendants in the long running, multi-billion dollar Carlyle litigation that eventually concluded in 2020. He also recently acted for the Registrar of the Chambre de Discipline (the disciplinary body for Advocates) on the first ever appeal of a disciplinary matter to the Court of Appeal, where he was successful
Collas Crill
Gareth Grand
Gareth is a Senior Associate in the Corporate department in Guernsey. He advises on a broad range of corporate, finance and regulatory matters and has particular experience in relation to banking and finance transactions. Gareth qualified into the London Restructuring department of DLA Piper in 2015. Prior to joining Appleby in July 2025, he was a Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance team at Burges Salmon in Bristol.
Appleby
Gavin Ferguson
Partner
Ogier
Gilly Kennedy-Smith
Gilly heads up Mourant's award winning Trusts and Private Client team in Guernsey and has nearly two decades of experience in both London and offshore. Gilly advises international high net worth families, trust companies and family offices on the establishment, restructuring and management of family asset holding vehicles as well as estate and succession planning, with a focus on achieving private wealth objectives by thoughtful planning and governance. While her clients are global she has particular experience working with Middle Eastern, Swiss and UK connected clients. She frequently works with advisors in other jurisdictions to build coherent succession solutions for clients, that work for successive generations of the family. Gilly is individually ranked in the Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide in Offshore: Trusts, listed as a Global Elite - Lawyer in the Private Client Global Elite Directory and ranked as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 UK. She is a regular speaker in Guernsey and beyond, as well as having published a number of articles for international publication. In 2024, Gilly was appointed International Correspondent for Private Client Business, the leading journal for those involved with private client work.
Mourant
Gordon Dawes
Gordon is a Partner of Mourant Ozannes (Guernsey) LLP in the firm's Guernsey Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Gordon's practice focus points are cross-border commercial disputes, regulatory law and white-collar crime, trust disputes and related issues (for example director and company issues arising in a trust context) and areas of crossover between the regulatory and fiduciary worlds. He has a substantial company law and commercial practice more generally with considerable experience also of insurance and public law. I have a particular interest in litigation funding. Gordon has taken cases to all levels of the Guernsey court system including cases to the Privy Council and to the Supreme Court/House of Lords and to the European Court of Human Rights. He has written extensively about Guernsey law including writing what is still Guernsey's leading textbook, Laws of Guernsey, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003. Gordon has been a member of the editorial board of the Channel Islands' leading law review, the Jersey and Guernsey Law Review, since 2003. He is also a director of Guernsey's law institute.
Mourant
Grace Cummings
Associate
Walkers
Graham Hall
Graham is a consultant for the corporate and finance group in Guernsey where he was previously head and senior partner until December 2016. He is among the most respected investment funds and finance lawyers internationally and has been in professional practice for over 25 years. Graham is instructed by the world's leading banks, financial sponsors, corporates and private fund clients, including private equity firms. His client portfolio also includes a broad range of listed entities. He has worked on many of the most significant investment funds, finance and wider corporate transactions to have involved Guernsey. Graham has been selected to advise the States of Guernsey and has contributed to much of Guernsey's company, tax and investment funds legislation during his career so far.
Carey Olsen
Hana Plsek
Hana is Counsel in the Mourant Guernsey Employment practice. Her areas of practice are contentious and non-contentious employment law advising both global and local companies. Hana advises individuals and businesses relocating or starting up in Guernsey on visas, in particular Investor and Entrepreneur visas, immigration matters generally and employment permits. She also advises on Guernsey specific out of policy residence certificates. Hana is part of a team of specialists advising businesses on data protection matters including working with clients to ensure that their policies, procedures and third-party contracts can demonstrate compliance with data protection legislation, drafting information notices to meet the required standards of transparency and advising on the legality of international transfers of personal data. She is a regular speaker on employment related matters, contributes to articles and provides training to clients with regards to employment law. In 2021, Hana won 'Woman of the Year - Rising Star' Silver Award at the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2021.
Mourant
Heidi Sandy
Managing Associate
Ogier
Helen Wyatt
Helen is a Partner in the Corporate practice of Mourant Ozannes (Guernsey) LLP and has broad commercial and corporate law experience. She's advised clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and IPOs, as well as the establishment and restructuring of investment schemes, financing and corporate transactions. Helen has a particular interest in financial services regulatory matters. Helen is a member of the Guernsey Commercial Bar Association.
Mourant
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
Henry Simpson
Henry is a senior associate in the corporate and finance team, advising on a wide range of corporate matters with particular emphasis on banking and finance and investment funds. Henry has experience in acting for both international and local clients in relation to complex and high value finance transactions, as well as on general corporate and regulatory issues.
Carey Olsen
James Cousins
James is a Partner of Mourant LP in the Mourant Guernsey Corporate practice, specialising in investment funds. His practice spans all aspects of asset management. With solid private practice grounding and broad in-house experience, James is able to bring a commercial, pragmatic, client-friendly approach to his advice. He has a particular interest in hedge funds and other alternative investments but advises broadly across all fund types and asset classes. His practice encompasses the full fund lifecycle - from formation to maintenance to distributions and dissolutions, in addition to general corporate, finance, and regulatory advisory work.
Mourant
James Gallimore
James is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey. James qualified as an English solicitor in 2019. James advises on contentious and non-contentious employment issues for a wide range of clients including international companies and financial institutions. He has worked on Employment Tribunal claims relating to unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and disability discrimination. James has experience on multi-jurisdictional employment projects and undertaking corporate support work. James also drafts employment-related documentation, such as contracts of employment, HR policies, director’s service agreements and settlement agreements.
Appleby
James Tee
James is a Partner in Guernsey. James advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on insolvency matters. He regularly advises insolvency practitioners, creditors and directors alike on all aspect of insolvency matters from appointments to directions applications. Additionally, James has experience in contentious trusts matters. James advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on insolvency matters. He regularly advises insolvency practitioners, creditors and directors alike on all aspect of insolvency matters from appointments to directions applications. Additionally, James has experience regarding other matters in the core areas of the Dispute Resolution team including Corporate Disputes and Contentious Trusts.
Collas Crill