Lawyers in Jersey
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240 lawyers listed
Bruce MacNeil
Partner
Ogier
Carla Benest
Partner and Head of our Jersey Employment practice
Mourant
Charlotte Yates
Charlotte Yates is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution team in Jersey. Her practice predominantly involves advising in relation to contentious and non-contentious trust applications with an international element, advising both trustees and beneficiaries. She also has experience advising on cross-border commercial litigation and contentious insolvency matters.
Walkers
Chiara Mundy
Chiara is a Senior Associate in their Jersey International Trusts & Private Client practice.
Mourant
Chris Philpott
Chris specialises in commercial property, both contentious and non-contentious. He joined Carey Olsen from the office of HM Attorney General for Jersey where he was a Legal Adviser specialising in property transactions and related disputes involving the States of Jersey. Chris leads on all commercial property transactions undertaken by Carey Olsen. He acts for global and local institutions on high profile acquisitions, sales and lettings of commercial property in Jersey.
Carey Olsen
Christine Fox
Christine, counsel in Jersey's corporate team specialises in real estate finance and Islamic finance. Christine acts for financial institutions, borrowers and trustees in connection with structures involving companies, trusts and partnerships. She has worked in Jersey since 2007 and rejoined Carey Olsen in January 2026 having previously spent eight years in Carey Olsen's Jersey banking and finance team.
Carey Olsen
Christophe Kalinauckas
Christophe Kalinauckas is a partner within the corporate department in Jersey and has substantial offshore experience including corporate, banking & finance work, private equity work, restructurings, joint ventures, advising on several aspects of M&A deals and general non-contentious offshore law. He is consistently ranked by Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 for Corporate, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, and is praised for his ‘excellent attention to detail and great skill in transactions’. Clients also describe him as “great to work with, very knowledgeable, responsive and helpful.” Christophe specialises in all aspects of corporate and private equity work, debt finance and real estate finance matters. He also has industry-leading expertise in listing securities on The International Stock Exchange, including green bonds, private equity acquisition debt, high-yield bonds and several prestigious Asian-backed debt listings. Prior to joining Appleby, Christophe worked for over 15 years in private practice in Jersey and in the Cayman Islands, at two major offshore firms. He is a Jersey Advocate, and he has also been admitted as a Cayman Islands Attorney and English Solicitor (non-practising).
Appleby
Christopher Griffin
Christopher has broad experience of both general international corporate and funds work with particular expertise in private equity and hedge funds, having spent ten years in the City at Ashurst, RAB Capital plc and most recently at SJ Berwin. Christopher spearheads Carey Olsen's crypto practice, advising on the launch in 2017 of Coinshares Fund I (a venture cap fund investing in crypto assets) and ARC Reserve Currency, Jersey's first initial coin offering or "ICO". Christopher also advises on all aspects of fund and corporate transactions, including the legal and regulatory aspects of fund launches, and joint ventures. He also has considerable experience in dealing with the Jersey Financial Services Commission in navigating investment vehicles through the Jersey regulatory approval process. While at Ashurst and SJ Berwin, he acted for several hedge funds, private equity and venture capital houses in relation to their fund launches, carried interest arrangements and ongoing corporate governance issues, including fund restructurings. During his time at RAB, Christopher set up several funds and advised in relation to the establishment of numerous managed accounts, including several bespoke performance fee mechanisms. More recently, Christopher has advised both managers and investors on the legal aspects of fund restructurings.
Carey Olsen
Christopher Reed
Christopher Reed heads Appleby’s Middle East practice, leading the firm’s newly established office in Abu Dhabi Global Market, a leading hub for international finance. After a decade in Jersey, he relocated to Abu Dhabi in 2025 to launch and grow Appleby’s regional presence, focusing on strategic relationships with GCC-based clients and intermediaries. Christopher is a seasoned corporate and funds lawyer with expertise in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, group structuring and restructuring, fund establishment, family office arrangements, and corporate governance. His practice covers high-value, cross-border transactions and complex structuring mandates, often at the intersection of private capital, institutional investment and family wealth. With a career spanning major financial centres and emerging markets, Christopher has advised sovereign wealth funds, global corporations, private equity and venture capital investors, as well as family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. His experience extends across M&A, private equity and real estate transactions in multiple jurisdictions, as well as both regulated and unregulated fund formations. Clients value his pragmatic, commercially focused advice and collaborative approach to solving complex legal and business challenges. Before moving offshore in 2015, Christopher spent nearly a decade in private practice with US and UK law firms in London and Moscow. He went on to develop his offshore expertise in the Investment Funds & Corporate departments of two leading firms before joining Appleby in 2025.
Appleby
Claire Le Quesne
Claire advises clients in respect of corporate, Jersey funds and banking matters. Her principal practice area is corporate real estate and Jersey funds (both listed and non-listed). Claire has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and portfolio acquisitions and refinancings. She acts mainly borrower/sponsor side on real estate finance transactions as well as for buyer and seller on M&A matters.
Carey Olsen
Conor Walsh
Conor advises on all aspects of corporate law, including advising on trademark and probate matters. He is currently on secondment from the BVI to the firm's Jersey office. Prior to joining Collas Crill in 2015, Conor worked as a Solicitor in the banking and finance department of a major international firm in Dublin, Ireland. Conor was promoted to Senior Associate in January 2023.
Collas Crill
Craig De Bruyn
Craig de Bruyn is an Associate in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution team in Jersey. He advises on contentious and non-contentious insolvency and restructuring matters, having practised at an international law firm and a boutique restructuring firm onshore. Craig has experience of working with Insolvency Practitioners, including advising on the collection of assets and related administration in liquidations, directors' duties in distressed situations, and on matters relating to enforcement and creditor claims. He has worked on major insolvencies and restructuring assignments involving entities in the construction, natural resources and tech industries.
Walkers
Craig Macleod
Craig Macleod is a senior associate in Walkers' Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Jersey. He primarily specialises in trusts litigation with an international dimension, advising on contentious and non-contentious trust matters for both trustees and beneficiaries alike. He also advises on a range of commercial and corporate disputes.
Walkers
Daisy Bovingdon
Daisy is an Advocate and Senior Associate in Jersey, specialising in high-value, cross-border commercial litigation. Daisy's particular expertise includes asset recovery and enforcement (including interim relief); corporate and partnership disputes; and insolvency applications and advice. Daisy has a particular passion for ADR, and regularly achieves substantial success for clients through negotiated settlement, and mediation. Working in partnership with Collas Crill's leading regulatory and corporate teams, Daisy routinely advises on issues concerning international tax cooperation treaties, the obligations of corporate services providers and trustees, and the duties of directors.
Collas Crill
Damian Evans
Partner
Ogier
Damian James
Damian is an experienced litigator who specialises in contentious and semi-contentious trust work and heavyweight commercial litigation. Damian is a member of the Fraud Network and is highly ranked in both the main legal directories. He is listed as a prominent figure in the contentious trust sector and he sits on the board of one of the world's largest litigation funds. The company specialises in funding high profile, multi billion-pound, international group action claims.
Collas Crill
Dan Boxall
Dan is a Consultant in the dispute resolution team of Collas Crill in Jersey. He also performs an important role within the Private Client and Trusts team, providing detailed legal research and document due diligence across matters involving complex issues of trust law, historic claims of mismanagement and large volumes of documents is a Group Partner. He is highly experienced in large case management, dealing with high-value, complex commercial and trust litigation through all degrees of contentiousness. Dan is often involved in the larger international disputes, working closely with Damian James on high-end trust and corporate/ financial services cases that involve extended teams of international advisors. While Dan is a member of the Dispute Resolution team, he also performs an important role within the non-contentious private client team, providing detailed legal research and document due-diligence across matters involving complex issues of trust law, historic claims of mismanagement and large volumes of documents.
Collas Crill
Dan Perkins
Dan is of counsel in Maples and Calder's Finance and Corporate teams in the Maples Group's Jersey office. He has experience advising on a wide range of Jersey Corporate and Finance transactions for institutional, corporate and family office clients.
Maples Group
Daniel Birtwistle
Daniel focuses on private equity funds and public and private property funds. Clients include: Actera Group, Ardian, BlackRock, Coriolis Capital, Invision, Land Securities, Lloyds Investment Fund Managers, Savills Investment Management, Segulah, Threadneedle Asset Management and Triton. Highlight deals: Daniel gave the Jersey legal advice for the first expert fund launched in Jersey in 2004 and has advised on numerous fund launches, restructurings and migrations. What the directories say: “He’s very responsive and we had some structuring issues which he tried to help us quite proactively with in finding a solution”. Daniel is also ranked as a Leading Lawyer (IFLR 1000, 2014). “‘Committed, commercial expert’ Daniel Birtwistle leads the team', (Legal 500, 2015). Daniel is listed in the Legal 500 UK Who’s Who in the Law directory.
Mourant
Daniel Healy
Daniel is a Counsel within the Corporate department in Jersey. Daniel is a corporate and finance specialist advising on a wide range of high-value international transactions. He has significant experience in advising both lenders and corporate borrowers on fund finance, real estate finance and acquisition finance transactions. He is also well versed on Sharia compliant financings. He also acts on a variety of public and private cross border mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on real estate acquisitions and insurance business transfers.
Appleby
Daniel O\'Connor
Daniel specialises in the structuring and formation of investment funds, real estate finance and general corporate work. He has extensive transactional experience establishing, restructuring, financing and winding-up a wide range of offshore structures. Daniel is instructed by both global financial institutions and specialist asset managers and works with many of Jersey's leading fund services providers. Daniel's recent transactions include the restructure and refinancing of a joint-venture structures holding German commercial real estate, a range of UK commercial and retail property transactions, creating and restructuring various carried interest distribution structures and establishing a wide range of investment vehicles, including managed account structures, a large European leveraged buy-out fund, a "private equity-style" film financing fund and a large European "private equity style" special situations real estate fund.
Carey Olsen
Daniel Read
Daniel leads Walkers' Employment practice group in Jersey and has over 11 years' experience in Jersey with a focus on advising financial services organisations on all aspects of the employment relationship. Daniel is a Jersey Advocate with experience in Royal Court and Employment and Discrimination Tribunal cases. He gives strategic advice on all aspects of the employment relationship including: managing employee relations managing sickness absences internal investigations disciplinary and grievance procedures whistleblowing and discrimination claims restructuring and redundancy regulatory matters exits Daniel regularly works with our Investment Funds and Corporate team with the employment law aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions. He also advises on business licensing and immigration matters, regulatory and data protection issues involving employees and he regularly supports clients with drafting and negotiating employment documentation including contracts and handbooks. Daniel also has in-house experience, having undertaken a six-month client secondment with a major bank, advising on employee relations issues.
Walkers
Daniel Walker
Daniel is of Counsel in the Jersey team. He specialises in all aspects of Jersey corporate, banking and trust law.
Collas Crill
David Allen
David is a partner of Maples and Calder's Corporate team in the Maples Group’s Jersey office. He advises on cross-border M&A, IPOs and private equity transactions. David has acted on a wide range of Jersey corporate finance (particularly AIM, main market and US listings of Jersey companies) and mergers and acquisitions transactions, and provides general corporate advice. David also has particular expertise in relation to large M&A transactions conducted via Jersey schemes of arrangement.
Maples Group