Lawyers in Guernsey
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169 lawyers listed
Sandie Lyne
Partner
Ogier
Sarah Ash
Sarah leads Walkers' Channel Islands Employment Law Group and is the head of our Employment team in Guernsey. She advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. Sarah advises companies in sectors ranging from financial services, insurance and legal to media on: tribunal claims and procedure contracts of employment internal grievance and disciplinary matters managing sickness absence misconduct and capability issues dismissals discrimination employment policies and procedures redundancies aspects of mergers, acquisitions and disposals. She has been seconded to Employment Legal and HR teams, and has spent time in a major international bank where she gained experience of employment matters from a client’s perspective.
Walkers
Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball is an associate in Walker's Guernsey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and advises on contentious trusts matters, insolvencies, and commercial litigation. Sarah has onshore and offshore experience in advising on a wide range of disputes, working with corporates and HNWIs, mainly on cross-border matters.
Walkers
Sarah Brehaut
Sarah is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group specialising in contentious insolvency and regulatory disputes. She is an experienced court-going Advocate who frequently represents liquidators in respect of contentious and non-contentious matters before Guernsey's Royal Court in relation to compulsory and voluntary winding-up, and holds the BPP Certificate of Proficiency in Corporate Insolvency (for which she received the highest exam result in the country). Sarah also advises and represents directors of regulated entities in respect of regulatory investigations and disputes. She has significant experience in all aspects of commercial dispute as well as considerable experience of appearing in the Magistrate’s Court, Royal Court and Court of Appeal.
Walkers
Sarah-Jane Hall
Sarah-Jane is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team, based in Guernsey. She acts for individuals, trustees, executors and family offices on a broad array of contentious and non-contentious private client matters. She has extensive experience providing guidance on the establishment, reorganisation, administration and termination of complex wealth planning structures. She also advises on wills and estate planning, and on probate and reseal applications. In addition, she has experience assisting clients seeking to obtain residency in the Cayman Islands. Sarah-Jane has advised on a number of trust disputes which include challenges to validity; variation; the removal of trustees; setting aside trustee decisions; advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; and advising trustees in relation to divorce.
Carey Olsen
Shumona Neswar
Senior Associate
Walkers
Simon Davies
Partner
Ogier
Simon Florance
Simon is counsel to the dispute resolution and litigation team specialising in commercial litigation and regulatory matters. Simon’s experience and expertise encompasses a wide range of areas including complex contractual disputes, shareholder and investor actions, cross-border litigation, freezing orders, contentious banking and finance issues, and property and construction disputes. Simon also advises on regulatory matters including anti-money laundering, data protection, directors' duties and renewable energy.
Carey Olsen
Simon Heggs
Simon is a Group Partner in Guernsey. He advises on all aspects of commercial law, with a particular focus on public equity and debt, banking and finance (including real estate, private client and fund finance), private equity investment and mergers and acquisitions. Simon regularly leads cross border matters involving our Guernsey, Jersey, BVI and Cayman teams and acts as lead counsel to a number of Guernsey based Banks and family offices. Recent highlights: Acting for Credit Agricole in respect of their €50bn Structured Debt Instruments Issuance Programme. Acting for SafeCharge International Group Limited, an AIM Listed company, on its successful $889m takeover by the Nuvei Corporation by way of a Guernsey scheme of arrangement. Advising Pizza Hut UK on the early settlement and de-listing of their TISE listed debt securities as part of their wider CVA. Acting for Intertrust in their €500m bond issuance and the refinance of their existing debt facility. Acting for Ferro-Alloy Resources in their migration from the BVI and joint listing on London and Kazak Stock Exchanges. Acting as lead counsel to a Guernsey family office in the acquisition of two Guernsey commercial real estate companies. Acting for Fairtree Hospitality Real Estate Private Equity Limited Partnership in the refinance of their group's property investment portfolio.
Collas Crill
Simon Smith
Simon is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey. Simon has extensive experience advising on commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Simon advises on all core areas of dispute resolution including insurance disputes, shareholder disputes, regulatory investigations, trust disputes, contractual claims, international enforcement actions and cross-border insolvency claims. Since qualification, Simon has specialised in high value and complex commercial litigation, acting for international and domestic companies, stakeholders and insurers across a broad range of disputes. Prior to joining Appleby in January 2025, Simon practised as an Associate Solicitor at Kennedys Dublin, which is widely recognised as one of the leading Dispute Resolution law firms in Ireland.
Appleby
Sophie Denman
Managing Associate
Ogier
Stuart Tyler
Stuart Tyler is a Partner and Group Head within the Corporate Department in Guernsey. Stuart deals with a number of corporate and commercial matters including fund raising, acquisitions, debt finance, financial services regulatory matters, insolvency, shareholder arrangements, insurance structures and the commercial aspects of trusts and foundations law.
Appleby
Tendai Gakanje
Tendai is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Team in Guernsey. She has a wide range of experience dealing in acting for both international and local clients in relation to complex and high value corporate and finance matters and has particular experience in the Guernsey insurance and reinsurance sector advising in relation to Insurance-linked securities (ILS), cellular structures and regulatory issues. Prior to joining Appleby in September 2025, Tendai was a Senior Associate at another leading international law firm in Guernsey.
Appleby
Thomas Cutts-Watson
A qualified Guernsey advocate, Tom specialises in contentious and semi-contentious trust matters, appearing for trustees, beneficiaries, protectors and other power-holders, usually with an international or cross-border element.
Collas Crill
Tim Bamford
Tim is partner and advocate in the dispute resolution and litigation group specialising in corporate and commercial litigation. Tim has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of corporate and commercial disputes with a particular focus on complex commercial litigation, banking and finance disputes, contractual claims, company disputes and trust litigation. Other areas of experience include corporate restructuring and insolvency, regulatory advice and alternative dispute resolution, in particular mediation. Tim is registered with the Guernsey Intellectual Property Office as a Trade Mark and Design Rights Intellectual Property agent. Tim is also member of the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES) and the Guernsey International Legal Association (GILA).
Carey Olsen
Tim Clipstone
Partner
Ogier
Tim Corfield
Tim is an Advocate and a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team. He has twenty-five years' experience in trial and litigation advisory work, representing clients in high value, high-stakes and reputationally significant cases, many involving multiple jurisdictions working alongside other international law firms. His practice spans the breadth of corporate and company law disputes, contentious corporate transactional matters, banking and financial services litigation, funds disputes, shareholder disputes and derivative and unfair prejudice claims, as well as trusts disputes and general commercial litigation. He also has significant experience in the fields of corporate insolvency, acting in various claims arising from the collapses of Enron, Madoff, Stanford and Lehman Brothers. He often represents boards of directors and other fiduciaries, such as trustees, in all manner of crises, often in contentious and regulatory matters as part of his board advisory practice, assisting on commercially and financially sensitive or complex transactions and investigations, breach of duty and breach of trust claims. Tim has also devoted time to various pro bono activities, including in cases dealing with: opposition to the death penalty – successfully as amicus curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Carman L. Deck v. State of Missouri No. 04-5293, Citation 544 U.S. 622, viz. the constitutionality of shackling a prisoner during the sentencing phase of a trial (Deck was finally executed in May 2022); racism and discrimination; and representing the family of Baby Jack at the inquest into his death at Princess Elizabeth Hospital in January 2014.
Carey Olsen
Tom Carey
Tom is a partner is the corporate and finance team. He advises clients both locally and internationally on a wide variety of corporate transactions including private equity, investment funds and restructurings. Tom acts for asset managers, banks and fund promoters on the structuring and establishment of closed-ended and open-ended collective investment schemes. He also advises on corporate transactions including insolvency and restructuring as well as banking and real estate finance. He specialises in permanent capital vehicles, CISE, AIM and Main Market listings as well as all aspects of private equity. Tom was listed in the ‘International Who’s Who of Funds Lawyers’ 2014.
Carey Olsen
Tony Lane
Tony advises on all aspects of corporate law in Guernsey, with a particular focus on transformative corporate transactions including private mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, schemes of arrangement, stock exchange listings, equity investments and joint ventures. Tony also advises on issues of corporate governance, shareholder rights and the conduct of regulated business in Guernsey, and advises on the establishment, management and regulation of investment funds in Guernsey, as well as the establishment of private investment structures. Tony 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
Tracey Powell
Tracey is a senior associate in the corporate team based in London. Tracey advises on a broad range of corporate, banking and finance, funds and regulatory matters, with particular focus on the establishment, regulation and management of investment funds, including advising on fund financing.
Carey Olsen LLP
Tristan Ozanne
Tristan is a Group Partner in the Corporate Department in Guernsey and joined Appleby in 2024. Tristan has an extremely broad and in-depth experience of all Corporate & Commercial, Banking and Finance and Regulatory work, gained through over 20 years of offshore practice. He has particular expertise in corporate acquisitions and corporate advisory, together with fund finance and real estate finance. Tristan frequently advises on regulatory matters across all supervisory laws pertaining to collective investment funds and licensees. He is described as having “a sound legal mind and common sense judgement. An asset to have on your side.” and as being “extremely well-connected throughout the region.” Other client feedback includes: “Tristan provides efficient, strong legal advice and is a pleasure to work with.” “In addition to his legal knowledge, Tristan also keeps an eye on the business challenges of his clients. He provides helpful and valuable advice on legal matters.” “Tristan is helpful and responsive.” “Tristan is very good, very thorough and easy to talk to.” “Tristan is great on lending and has a strong team with him.” “A sound legal mind and common sense judgement”. “An asset to have on your side”. “Extremely well-connected throughout the region”. “Great knowledge of Guernsey law”. “Keeps an eye on the business challenges of his clients”. “Tristan’s advice is clear and targeted to the client’s objectives”. “Tristan is very responsive and easy to work with”. “Tristan is solid and dependable”. “Swift and well thought out solutions”. “Knowledgeable, proactive and easy to work with”. “Highly responsive with strong industry knowledge.” “Tristan is both smart and responsive and a pleasure to work with”. “Tristan is so helpful and knowledgeable. We feel safe in his hands”. “A dynamic and friendly lawyer with great ambition”.
Appleby
Victoria Pratt
Victoria is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Channel Islands Employment Practice Group, supporting the team across Guernsey and Jersey. Her employment law practice includes specialisms in data protection, executive exits and team moves and employment connected with regulated financial services business. Victoria's data protection work focuses on staff data (including data subject access requests and cross-border data transfers), frequently in the context of regulated industries, mergers & acquisitions and litigation. Her practice relating to senior exits and team moves involves advising both employers and employees on contentious exits and enforcement of post termination restrictions as well as constructive and unfair dismissal. Having worked as a commercial and fiduciary lawyer in London and Guernsey, and attaining STEP qualifications prior to specialising in employment work, Victoria has relevant experience of working within a regulated environment. Victoria is a Guernsey Advocate and also advises on housing and immigration matters.
Walkers
Wayne Atkinson
Wayne is a qualified Guernsey Advocate and BVI Attorney, working with a broad range of regulated entities and investment funds on fundraising, transaction and investment structuring, commercial contracts and mergers and acquisitions. As one of the leaders of Collas Crill's risk and regulatory team he also regularly advises businesses on regulatory compliance including money-laundering issues, listing rules requirements, competition law, data protection, ESG matters and Guernsey financial services regulation more generally.
Collas Crill
Wendy Garrard
Wendy is counsel in the trusts and private wealth group and acts for trustees, beneficiaries and protectors in all aspects of fiduciary law and regulation, specialising in contentious and non-contentious trust proceedings before the Royal Court of Guernsey, including administrative applications by trustees for directions. Wendy has significant experience in advising on Guernsey, Jersey and UK non-contentious trusts, banking, corporate advisory, regulatory and compliance matters gained in her previous role as a senior in-house counsel with an international bank, and deals with all aspects of non-contentious trust and fiduciary work, including advising on complex trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising trustees in connection with the establishment and ongoing administration of trusts. Wendy is also noted as a Key Lawyer in Carey Olsen's trust team by Legal 500 UK. Wendy's memberships include the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and the Chancery Bar Association (ChBA).
Carey Olsen