Lawyers in Guernsey
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169 lawyers listed
Michelle Watson Bunn
Managing Associate
Ogier
Mutsa Dodzo
Senior Associate
Walkers
Natasha Kapp
Natasha Kapp is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth group in Guernsey. Natasha deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious trust matters. She advises professional trustees, family offices and ultra high net worth families and individuals on the establishment, administration and restructuring of complex trusts and foundations and underlying structures. She has acted on the establishment of and continues to advise some of the largest family offices and philanthropies established on the Island. Natasha also advises on insurance regulation. She regularly appears before the Royal Court of Guernsey in trust administration proceedings including applications regarding the interpretation of trust powers, the variation of trusts, the doctrine of mistake, the application of the Rule In Hastings Bass, Beddoe applications, rectification and the blessing of momentous decisions. Natasha is a regular contributor to law and industry journals and is the author of the Guernsey chapters in Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions and Private Foundations - A World Review. She is ranked as a leading individual for Private Client, Trusts and Tax, in Guernsey in the Legal 500 and is also ranked in the Chambers UK, Global and HNW Guides. Natasha is listed by Who's Who Legal for Private Client and also features in the Private Client Global Elite Directory, a respected global directory of the world's top private client and trust and estates litigation talent.
Carey Olsen
Niall MacDonald
Niall MacDonald is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department in Appleby’s Jersey office. He advises on all types of commercial dispute and has extensive advocacy experience ranging from representing clients regarding trusts and multi-jurisdictional issues (before the Royal Court of Jersey and Court of Appeal) to resolving local employment disputes (before the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal). His practice now focuses on the following specialisms: commercial & contractual disputes; employment & regulatory matters; trust litigation; together with fraud, asset tracing & insolvency cases. The breadth of his experience equips him particularly well when such issues overlap, for example with misconduct investigations concerning regulatory matters. His clients range from high net worth individuals and executives, to leading global and local corporate entities. The cases which he has resolved over the last 15 years have involved a broad range of other areas of the law (including company, contract, criminal, data protection, insolvency, insurance, planning, professional negligence and regulatory).
Appleby
Nicola Hopkins
Nicola works in Guernsey as part of the property team, advising on family law and private client matters. Nicola specialises in all aspects of family and private client law, including matrimonial matters such as divorce, judicial separation, division of family assets, adoption and issues pertaining to children. She is also an experienced family mediator and regularly assists separating couples or the wider family in seeking an amicable resolution of financial and child matters through the mediation forum.
Carey Olsen
Nin Ritchie
Nin is a Group Partner in Guernsey. She is a well established dispute resolution practitioner with a loyal client base comprising finance services businesses and those from other regulated sectors, spanning risk and regulatory, corporate disputes and contentious trust matters many of which have multi-jurisdictional/international elements. She leads the risk and regulatory team in Guernsey to deliver a seamless offering to clients with complex and varied needs. Nin works closely with the Jersey-based risk and regulatory team to ensure that clients with a presence across the Channel Islands are able to receive a blended Channel Islands service. Nin has a strong sanctions practice that extends across transactional, advisory and contentious matters and is an expert in this legally complex and important developing area of practice. Nin has an established international network where clients require cross-jurisdictional sanctions advice.
Collas Crill
Omolola Botsane
Omolola is an Associate in the Corporate department in Guernsey. Omolola was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in May 2022, having trained and practised as an attorney at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, one of the leading corporate and commercial law firms in South Africa, during which time she gained experience in the Dispute Resolution, Finance & Banking, and Human Rights & Pro Bono practice areas. Prior to joining Appleby, Omolola’s experience was predominantly in telecommunications regulatory work and commercial litigation in various sectors.
Appleby
Patricia Montgomery
Patricia is a partner in the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey with over 20 years' experience in her specialist field. She advises a variety of private clients and fiduciaries on all fiduciary law aspects, in particular the creation and administration of offshore trusts and corporate and charitable structures, including commercial and private trusts and foundations. She also advises in relation to succession, pensions and estate planning matters. Patricia’s advice is frequently sought by fiduciaries in relation to their regulatory and compliance obligations, terms of business and take-on documentation. She is also regularly instructed by private individuals, global institutions and law firms to assist regarding Guernsey inheritance laws, the creation of wills, grants of probate, lasting powers of attorney and the administration of estates. She has vast experience in managing the process of the winding up of straight forward and the more complex estates, which may involve significant assets, multiple beneficiaries or potential disputes, and she ensures all legal obligations are met and the process runs smoothly.
Carey Olsen
Paul Chanter
Partner
Ogier
Paul Nettleship
Paul heads up the real estate team in Guernsey. He has a broad practice covering local real estate and private client matters. This includes advising on commercial property development, acquisitions, and disposals (both freehold and leasehold); funding and security over real property; planning matters; property disputes; and small business acquisitions and disposals. He acts for landlords, tenants, funders, brokers, P2P lenders, and private and high street banks. As well as Paul's commercial property business, his private client practice includes advising and acting for clients moving to the island, will drafting and inheritance matters, and guardianship issues. He generally oversees the firm's conveyancing practice.
Collas Crill
Paul Wilkes
Paul advises on all elements of investment fund establishment, regulation and downstream transactional work. His clients include venture capital, private equity, real estate and hedge fund managers based in the key fund markets of London, New York and Asia with a fast-growing following in South Africa. Always having taken a commercially-minded approach, in 2021 Paul moved to a consultancy role with the firm alongside an external position as founding partner of a venture capital firm. This brings unique and invaluable experience and perspective to the team in advising fund managers.
Collas Crill
Paula Fry
Advocate Paula Fry is Counsel in the Private Client & Trusts department in Guernsey. Paula is an established dual-qualified lawyer of 23 years’ call (also TEP qualified), of which thirteen years have been spent in Guernsey building a wide-ranging private client and trust practice. Her work covers both non-contentious and contentious trust and private client practice as well as corporate and finance work. She has a wealth of experience and has, in particular, been involved in numerous re-structuring exercises, a number of momentous decision applications, various mistake applications, trustee removal applications, the removal of a protector, applications and advice in relation to the defective appointment of trustees, a significant court application concerning the construction of a will and a novel court application in relation to the rectification of companies’ share registers. Paula is well acquainted with a broad spectrum of trust and estate related matters, including the establishment of trusts, foundations, private trust companies, the preparation of wills and the administration of estates. She also advises trustees, protectors, beneficiaries and private banks on all aspects of trusts. Additionally, Paula has built up a practice which goes beyond the remit of traditional private client work, having dealt with substantial corporate transactions and numerous financing arrangements involving trustees. Paula’s experience includes: Acting for corporate trustee in the rationalisation of substantial trusts, including partial exclusions of beneficiaries and appointments of sub-funds to avoid breach of trust issues; Acting with UK, Swiss and Italian advisors in the restructuring of a significant family trust; preparation of documentation including creation of sub-funds and creation of different classes of shares in the holding company of a number of property development companies; Establishment of highly bespoke trust to receive assets held by BVI company following death of Middle Eastern shareholder where a BVI grant of probate was not being obtained; Review and revision of documentation to incorporate a private trust company and the establishment of various trusts; Advising a trustee in relation to an application to set aside the transfer of assets to a trust on the grounds of mistake following incorrect tax advice; Advising client in relation to potential breaches of duty by Guernsey trustee resulting in a significant tax liability with interest and penalties
Appleby
Piers Dereham
Senior Associate
Ogier
Rachel DeSanges
Consultant
Ogier
Rachel Guthrie
Rachel is a Partner, Head of the Mourant Guernsey Employment practice, and a qualified Notary Public. Rachel's areas of practice are employment law, data protection and litigation. She specialises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment and data protection law, advising global and local companies. In 2021, she won 'Woman of the Year - Future Leaders - Senior Associate' Gold Award at the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2021. Rachel has written the Guernsey chapter in the current issue of Data Protection: Laws of the World.
Mourant
Rachel Jones
Rachel is a senior associate in the property team specialising in planning law. She advises public and private sector clients on (often complex) contentious and non-contentious planning matters. Her practice encompasses assisting clients with complex planning applications and appeals, judicial review proceedings, development plan inquiries, enforcement matters and planning agreements. Rachel also advises both landlords and tenants on a wide range of commercial property matters including the leasing of commercial property, dilapidations and also advising on property aspects of corporate transactions (many multi-jurisdictional).
Carey Olsen
Rachel de la Haye
Rachel is a partner in the corporate and finance team, advising on a wide range of corporate matters with particular emphasis on investment funds and financing. Rachel has a particularly keen interest in the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds as well as on general corporate and regulatory issues and banking and financing transactions.
Carey Olsen
Rebecca Hale
Rebecca Hale is an senior associate in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Guernsey. Rebecca advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial disputes including contentious trust matters, administrations and insolvencies, regulatory matters and general civil and commercial litigation. She has been practising in Guernsey since 2016, and works with a broad range of clients including financial institutions and trust companies on complex cross-border matters.
Walkers
Richard Field
Richard is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Appleby, specialising in corporate, trust and commercial litigation and regulatory matters. His regulatory focus is on data protection (including cyber), AML and compliance, technology and eGaming. Richard is one of the global leads for Privacy and Data Protection at Appleby and is the Guernsey lead for the firm’s Technology and Innovation practice group. Richard has acted for a range of local and global institutions on complex, cross-border disputes involving funds, banking and investment relationships and trusts. Many of the cases he has worked on involve fraud, asset-tracing and applications for injunctive relief, or regulatory issues (such as enforcement, AML, bribery or sanctions), often resulting in ground-breaking judgments, both in Guernsey and England. He is Vice-Chair of GACO (Guernsey Association of Compliance Officers) and involved in the current review of changes to Guernsey’s financial crime regime and preparations for the island’s MoneyVal assessment. He has been heavily involved in trust litigation, appearing in the trial of the Tchenguiz litigation in Guernsey, also advising on trustee removal, mistake and momentous decision applications, working along the firm’s private client team. He has recently appeared in a three-day trial of a will construction matter which will become the leading authority on such issues, and is working with the Jersey team in defending a novel claim involving reconstitution of a trust. Richard has been working on data protection and cyber matters for many years and is recognised as being at the forefront of advising on Guernsey´s Data Protection regime and GDPR. He sits on the States of Guernsey´s GDPR Industry Working Party, is involved in policy development and is both a committee member of the Islands’ Data Governance Forum and a qualified GDPR Practitioner. He is instructed by insurers in relation to cyber/incident response and managing breaches from initial discovery to remediation. Richard sits on the Digital Guernsey Panel and has been involved in providing input into the island’s Electronic Agents legislation, believed to be a “world first” in terms of setting a regulatory framework. He has also been involved with the Guernsey Financial Service Commission’s G-FIN working group and their wider initiatives at engagement with the local business community on fintech issues. He has historically been involved with the first use of blockchain in the private equity marketplace, spoken at the island’s first blockchain conference and advised on several digital identity, digital wallet, connected vehicles, cryptocurrency and e-CDD projects. Richard has written and spoken about GDPR/privacy extensively, both in the Channel Islands and further afield, working on projects including guidance on Guernsey´s data protection regime, co-authoring a guide to the impact of GDPR in the Channel Islands and contributing the Guernsey chapter to global law firms and legal subscription databases. He has also provided input to STEP UK on their GDPR guidance for trustees and fiduciary office holders, OneTrust on various articles, and Business Brief on regulatory/technology topics.
Appleby
Richard Sharp
Partner
Ogier
Richard Sheldon
Richard is the Managing Group Partner in Guernsey and member of the Dispute Resolution team, specialising in advising clients on employment law and regulatory issues. Richard leads the Channel Islands employment team, and is one of the pre-eminent employment lawyers in the region, advising on all areas of employment law including, strategic advice, litigation, transactional support and director / shareholder disputes, as well as advising on matters such as executive severance, employee share schemes, pensions, restrictive covenants, bonus disputes and trade union issues. In addition, Richard has advised on a number of major contentious regulatory matters including in particular enforcement action by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) against both companies and their directors, and has a particular expertise in the field of complex investigations into regulatory issues. Richard has a growing reputation in the field and has been the lead adviser on a number of regulatory enforcement cases over the years such as Blenheim, Richmond and Artemis, representing those companies through the enforcement process. Richard also regularly represents directors at voluntary interviews with the GFSC. Over recent years Richard has conducted a number of complex investigations for clients, relating to potential employee frauds, breaches of fiduciary duties, compliance around sanctions as well as sexual harassment in the workplace. Richard’s experience includes advising; A global financial services business on the investigation and dismissal of a senior director in respect of allegations of sexual harassment A tech business in relation the exit of a senior employee, and successfully defending claims before the Tribunal of discrimination on the grounds of sex and maternity The successful appellants in the case of Domaille & others v Guernsey Financial Services Commission in overturning on appeal before the Royal Court, regulatory enforcement sanctions imposed by the GFSC. A 50% owner of a professional services firm in relation to a dispute with his fellow owner, including successfully exiting the other party from the firm, as shareholder, director and employee. A former director of a fund administrator in relation to regulatory enforcement action taken by the GFSC, including successfully negotiating a private reprimand rather any form of public censure. A international financial services business on a post-acquisition integration restructure, including harmonisation of terms and conditions.
Appleby
Robert Fullman
Rob has more than 20 years’ experience practising law in Guernsey with a wide range and depth of experience in general and commercial litigation. He represents banks, other lenders, trust companies and fiduciaries in a wide spectrum of matters as well as assisting private individuals. Rob is well known for his debt recovery work and his extensive experience in the enforcement of judgments both domestically and internationally.
Bedell Cristin
Rupert Morris
Rupert heads Walkers' Private Capital & Trusts practice group and has over 15 years’ experience as a private wealth specialist focusing on private client advisory and structuring work. Since qualifying as a Guernsey Advocate, Rupert also has experience as a contentious practitioner, appearing before the Guernsey courts at all levels. He is recognised as one of the leading lawyers in his field in Guernsey, and sits on the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ (STEP) worldwide council and is a former Chair of their Guernsey branch. Rupert’s clients include leading trust companies, financial institutions, government departments and ultra-high net worth individuals. He helps them with all aspects of local and cross-border advisory and structuring work, impact investment, charitable structures, and regulatory matters including tax investigations and dawn raids.
Walkers
Russell Clark
Russell Clark heads up the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. He advises on both contentious and non-contentious trust and private wealth matters. He also advises private clients on succession, estate planning and family governance. Russell was elected as a member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL) and is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), having previously been Chairman of the STEP Guernsey Branch Technical Committee and a Branch Committee member for 18 years. Russell is listed as a Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal for Private Client. Russell is also a Notary Public and advises on Guernsey, Alderney and Sark law. Russell is the only Guernsey lawyer to be ranked in the 'Hall of Fame' in the Legal 500 UK and is a Band One practitioner for Guernsey in Chambers HNW Guide in their latest editions. He is also featured in the Private Client Global Elite Directory, a respected global directory of the world's top private client and trust and estates litigation talent.
Carey Olsen