Lawyers in Jersey
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David Dorgan
David Dorgan has established himself as one of the leading lawyers in Jersey uniquely combining strengths in private client, corporate and finance work. He is a Jersey Advocate and Notary Public with 24+ years’ experience and is a Partner in the Corporate department and of the Private Client and Trusts teams. David re-joined Appleby in 2025, having previously been a partner and Group Head of its Private Client & Trusts practice in Jersey for 7 years between 2015 and 2022. Prior to that, he was a partner of another top 10 offshore law firm. Between 2022 and 2025 David assisted in the furtherance of a law firm connected to a FTSE250 global fiduciary business before being enticed back to Appleby. He has a significant specialism in private and commercial trusts and foundations, focusing on providing technical advice on their establishment and on-going administration which is tailored for the practical and commercial requirements of clients. He has extensive experience of drafting bespoke and complex trust instruments, foundation regulations and company documents for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families, preparing bespoke will trusts and providing documentation for SPV, philanthropy, charitable and non-charitable purposes. David also has considerable experience in corporate and finance matters, in particular transactions involving trustees refinancing or selling and/or purchasing trust fund property and/or high net worth individuals or families entering entrepreneurial ventures. He has also provided opinions to foreign courts, foreign revenue authorities and institutional lenders on complex issues relating to trust and corporate issues. David has a particular specialisation in structuring for Middle Eastern clients and holds the Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) from the Charted Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) and Ecole Supérieure des Affairs (ESA). David has worked with Digital Jersey since 2021 and is one of the key architects of Jersey’s first data trust (called “LifeCycle”) to trial whether data could be collated, stored, analysed and shared using a Jersey law governed trust. He continues to work with Digital Jersey in the development and creation of subsequent data trusts to pioneer Jersey’s approach to shape the future of data-given structuring in a highly regulated industry.
Appleby
David Taylor
David is a partner in the Jersey corporate group. His practice covers a broad area of Jersey corporate and finance law, with a particular focus on M&A, private equity, corporate real estate, equity capital markets and debt and restructuring transactions. Representative clients include: Nordic Capital Canary Wharf Group Lloyds Bank International LCN Capital Partners RoundShield Partners Bridgepoint Advisers Exponent Private Equity Livingbridge Jersey Development Company Stride Gaming PLC XLMedia PLC Wentworth Resources PLC GlobalLogic Checkout Payments Group various ad hoc shareholder groups on activist matters / shareholder rights various ad hoc creditors and lenders on financing and restructuring transactions
Carey Olsen
Dilmun Leach
Dilmun Leach is a Partner in Walkers' Jersey Investment Funds & Corporate practice group and is head of Walkers' Jersey Fintech team, advising on a range of funds, corporate and regulatory matters. Dilmun is a renowned Jersey lawyer with a broad practice spanning Corporate, Funds, and Fintech matters. Dilmun was elected Vice Chair of the Jersey Funds Association (JFA) for a three-year term in July 2025; and is Co-Chair and a founding member of the Jersey Digital Assets Working Group formed in 2017. In respect of Fintech, Dilmun advised Backed Finance on the launch of Jersey's first tokenisation platform which launched in 2024. Dilmun worked closely with the Jersey Financial Services Commission in the drafting and publication of the Jersey Tokenisation Guidance Notes in August 2024, and has advised several clients on launching Jersey tokenised products. Dilmun has advised on a broad range of digital asset matters since 2016, and was involved in the drafting of the Jersey ICO Guidance Notes published in 2017. Having been elected to the JFA Committee in 2017 and been advising on investment funds matters since 2012, Dilmun was deeply involved in the design of the successful Jersey Private Fund product. Dilmun has supported many traditional fund-raises and also innovative fund and fund-like structures including using nominee/trustee structures, cell companies, deal-by-deal and single asset funds, collateralised fund interests, and continuation funds. Dilmun’s corporate practice includes private equity transactions, and mergers and acquisitions including regulated trust and corporate services providers. Dilmun advised on the first listing of a Jersey company's shares on NASDAQ using uncertificated shares and the direct registration system, and also the first de-SPAC transaction involving a Jersey company listing on NYSE. Dilmun is an active member of the Jersey finance industry, and has spoken on funds, corporate and fintech matters at events in Jersey, London, New York, Miami, and Switzerland.
Walkers
Dionne Gilbert
Dionne is a Partner in Jersey and a highly skilled litigator with 20 years' experience offering an impressive range of private client expertise to the firm's UHNW client base. Her work focuses on: complex and cross border family matters, advising and representing clients in high value divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving on and offshore assets; child law matters including complex relocation cases and residency matters; negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements on behalf of clients wishing to protect pre-marital assets, and advising on the protection of family wealth; civil disputes, including contractual disputes, professional negligence and personal injury as well as Landlord and Tenant issues. Dionne was involved in the leading case in Jersey on establishing the prescription period for Voisinage, a customary law doctrine; contentious probate matters; corporate disputes, including asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgments; criminal litigation, having appeared in a large number of high profile cases, including the first ever prosecution for money laundering in Jersey which went to the Privy Council for determination; cases involving capacity issues including court appointments of Case Delegate (acting to manage the financial affairs of an individual lacking capacity - broadly speaking, the Jersey equivalent to Guardianships) in two particularly complex cases and cases involving the appointment of Tuteur to deal with a minor's property.
Collas Crill
Donna Withers
Donna has been advising private clients for many years in relation to estate planning and post death matters. She leads an experienced department providing Jersey wills, probate, executor and vulnerable client services with both a Jersey and international focus. For Jersey clients, Donna advises on wills and estate planning, guiding families through issues of forced heirship ("legitime"), family sensitivities and the impact of particular asset classes or structures on estate plans. She is passionate about protecting the wealth and welfare of elderly or otherwise vulnerable clients, having been appointed by the Royal Court as Curator/Delegate (formerly Curator) for incapacitated clients and advising on the preparation and use of lasting powers of attorney. She also advises executors and beneficiaries following death as to their responsibilities and entitlements and assists with requirements for probate and registration of immovable wills. For international clients, Donna collaborates with other professional advisers as to the intricacies of private international law on wills, domicile, succession, capacity, lasting power of attorney, probate and inheritance issues. Her team provides Jersey wills, probate and registration of foreign powers of attorney for hundreds of non-Jersey domiciliaries per year, providing a streamlined and efficient service. Recognised for her expertise, Donna has been invited to speak on ITV Channel News, BBC Radio Jersey, the STEP Special Interest Group Conference in London and the Jersey branch. She also co-authored the Jersey chapter in the Oxford University Press textbook "The International Protection of Adults" and is a co-opted member of the Jersey Law Society Sub-Committee on Capacity and Succession. Before joining Bedell Cristin, she practised in the top tier private client department of Hill Dickinson LLP in England following which she advised in-house in a Jersey wealth structuring company.
Bedell Cristin
Ed Devenport
Edward has made numerous contributions to trust publications including writing the Jersey chapter of Asset Protection: Domestic and International Law and Tactics. In 2004 and 2005 he assisted with changes to the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984 and more recently has been on the working party piloting the introduction of the Unregulated Funds regime into Jersey. Edward’s recent investment funds work includes the Jersey domiciled Lyxor hedge fund platform. What the directories say: 'Fund specialist' Edward is praised as 'professional and solution-driven,' particularly for his involvement in hedge fund matters," (Chambers UK, 2013); is listed as a Prominent Figure in the Citywealth Leading Lawyers List 2013; is ranked in ‘The Legal 500 UK’, ‘Chambers UK’, ‘PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook’, ‘Who’s Who’ and ‘IFLR 1000’ Law directories.
Mourant
Edward Bennett
Edward is a Partner in the International Private Client team. With his 30 years' experience advising local and international clients on all aspects of trusts, foundations and related corporate structures, including having held numerous trustee and board positions, Edward has an extraordinary knowledge on the establishment, restructuring and ongoing administration of structures holding a variety of assets located around the world. He is in particular demand helping and supporting beneficiaries navigate the complexities of wealth transfer and as a leading figure in the 'Next Generation' movement Edward is frequently called upon to commentate on the topic. Edward has become a trusted advisor to internationally wealthy families who value his discretion and thorough understanding of the complexities of next generation wealth planning. Edward is also a Jersey Notary Public.
Bedell Cristin
Edward Drummond
Edward is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution team. Edward is an experienced commercial litigator and a qualified Jersey advocate. He is a partner in the Jersey litigation team and co-head of the firm's regulatory and compliance team. Edward has extensive experience of commercial litigation, contentious insolvency and regulatory matters (including investigations), acting for financial institutions, trustees and beneficiaries, insolvency office-holders, hedge funds, insurance companies (and insureds), employers and employees, and other entities, both onshore and offshore. Edward has appeared before the Courts of Jersey, England, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Having obtained an MA in Jurisprudence at Oxford University he began his career at Norton Rose in London in 1999, qualifying as a solicitor-advocate, before moving to the Cayman Islands office to Maples and Calder to practise Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law. Edward moved to Jersey in 2008 and qualified as a Jersey advocate in 2011.
Bedell Cristin
Edward MacKereth
Global Managing Partner
Ogier
Elaine Kelly
Elaine is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Jersey Banking & Finance Practice Group. She specialised in real estate financing, general senior and mezzanine secured lending and acquisition and development finance involving a wide range of Jersey holding structures including Jersey property unit trusts, partnerships and companies. She also advises on the establishment and non-contentious restructuring of such structures. Elaine has been a Jersey Advocate since 2012 and has been recognised as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 and recommended in the categories of corporate and commercial and banking and finance.
Walkers
Eleanor Colley
Senior Associate
Baker & Partners LLP
Emily Haithwaite
Group Partner
Ogier
Emily Nieuwburg
Emily is an senior associate in the investment funds and private equity group. Emily assists on a wide variety of corporate, commercial, banking and real estate and private equity investment fund transactions. Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Emily studied law with french at the University of Sussex and completed the Legal Practice Course at BPP in London.
Bedell Cristin
Felicia de Laat
Felicia specialises in collective investment funds with a particular focus on private equity and property funds, and has acted for a number of the firm’s clients in this area including Ardian, CVC Capital Partners, Schroders, Aviva Investors and Legal & General. Highlight deals: Advising CVC Capital Partners from a Jersey law perspective in connection with the establishment of CVC Asia Fund IV and the CVC Growth Fund, advising Ardian from a Jersey law perspective in connection with the establishment and activities of their investment funds managed from Jersey including the establishment of AXA Secondary Fund VI, advising on the original establishment of a €1 billion plus managed account investing in real estate debt securities and advising Aviva on the establishment of the Aviva Investors Real Estate Recovery II Fund and the subsequent sale of 100% of the interests held by investors in that fund to a third party buyer.
Mourant
Fiona Wilson
Fiona is Of Cousel, based in Jersey. Fiona specialises in providing advice to businesses on regulatory compliance including money laundering and terrorist financing issues, and competition law and data protection matters, as well as Jersey financial services regulation and regulatory investigations and enforcement matters. She also provides advice on general corporate and commercial matters and mergers and acquisitions. Fiona has broad experience in relation to all aspects of regulated financial services businesses, includig providing advice in relation to: regulatory investigations remediation programmes AML/CFT matters data protection; and anti-bribery and corruption matters Fiona also assists with applications for licences, advising on corporate governance matters and assisting with acquisitions and due diligence. She has also advised on sales and purchases of regulated and trading businesses, competition, regulatory applications and employment issues, and shareholder arrangements and restructurings of regulated and trading business groups. Fiona has collaborated with our private client and trusts team to help clients put into place managed trust company arrangements, and private trust company structures, outsourcing arrangements and processes for transferring books of business. She has also advised on making notifications and obtaining consents in relation to suspicious activity reports, sanctions licences and advice as well as assisting with internal investigations in relation to fraud, suspicious transactions and anti-bribery and corruption. Fiona's previous experience as in-house counsel, as a director of a financial services business and as a company secretary of a listed company helps her give advice that is practically focused.
Collas Crill
Fred Milner
I am Counsel in the International Trusts and Private Client team, based in our Jersey office. My core areas of expertise are succession planning and family governance and the use of trusts and companies in achieving those objectives and related issues. I am also interested in family office structuring, investment management arrangements, risk management for trustees, and the confidentiality vs transparency debate. I’ve also spoken at conferences and contributed to or been quoted in publications including STEP Journal, The Lawyer and Le Temps in Geneva.
Mourant
Fritha Ford
Fritha is a Partner and a Jersey Advocate. She is an experienced litigator who specialises in contentious and semi-contentious trust work and private client disputes. Fritha has extensive experience of complex, high value, multijurisdictional trust disputes and has been involved in some of the largest and most advanced trust litigation to come before the Royal Court in Jersey. In addition to hostile litigation matters, Fritha is regularly involved in applications concerning the blessing of momentous trustee decisions and applications to set aside trusts on grounds of mistake. Fritha is also frequently instructed to provide Jersey trust law advice in the context of high net worth divorces.
Collas Crill
Gareth Rigby
Gareth advises on a wide range of corporate, structured finance, limited partnership and investment fund matters. Directories say: Gareth Rigby is ‘thoughtful and thorough’ and is recommended in Banking and Finance, Legal 500, 2012; ‘very commercially minded and gives clear, practical advice,’ ‘Chambers UK’. Highlight deals: Gareth’s recent work has included the establishment of a large number of Jersey property unit trusts including ones for some of the UK’s leading property companies.
Mourant
Gayoung McLellan
Senior Associate
Ogier
Gemma Palmer
Gemma Palmer is a Partner in Walkers' Regulatory & Risk practice in Jersey, specialising in all financial services regulation matters. Gemma's experience spans acting on a number of reorganisation, rationalisation and/or consolidation mandates in relation to deposit-taking businesses, insurance businesses and trust company businesses, right through to advising on day to day compliance matters for a range of regulated businesses. Gemma has worked closely with a number of retail banks on Island in advising upon the launch of new business and service lines within the Jersey legal and regulatory framework. Gemma's practice includes advising on matters relating to AML/CFT obligations and compliance, fintech and payments, outsourcing arrangements, consumer credit regulation, prudential regulation and regulatory triggers, and general corporate compliance and governance. She also advises businesses in Jersey and onshore about their obligations under Jersey's regulatory regime and has previously assisted clients with navigating regulatory examinations. Gemma also has many years of experience in advising on restructuring and insolvency matters at a leading onshore firm where she delivered non-contentious insolvency and business restructuring advice to creditor cohorts, insolvency practitioners, institutional lenders and major corporates.
Walkers
Georgina Cook
As Counsel in our Jersey property practice, I specialise in all aspects of Jersey commercial property work including: commercial sales, acquisitions, leasehold matters and commercial lending and borrowing. I also enjoy a particular expertise in complex or novel development structuring.
Mourant
Guy Coltman
Guy is head of the corporate law team in Jersey and one of Jersey's most experienced mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and equity capital markets lawyers. Guy has worked on a number of high-profile transactions during his career in respect of UK and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. He has a particular focus at Carey Olsen on corporate finance (particularly AIM and main-market listings of Jersey companies), mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, structured investments, joint-venture vehicles and general corporate advice. He has acted on a number of financing transactions involving Jersey property unit trusts and general banking work. In terms of mergers and acquisitions, his work includes advising Capita Fiduciary Group Ltd on its purchase of AIB’s Jersey business on a full cash, debt free basis; advising Terra Firma on its acquisition of leading independent health and social care provider in the UK, Four Seasons Health Care; and advising Europe’s largest bicycle manufacturer Accell Group NV on the Jersey legal aspects of its US$100m acquisition of Raleigh Cycle Ltd. He was the only Jersey lawyer to be recognised in Who’s Who Legal: Mergers and Acquisitions 2014. He has also recently acted for a number of high profile Jersey acquisitions by way of schemes of arrangement, including advising CPA Global Group on its acquisition by Cinven in a deal valued in the region of £950m and Colfax UK Holdings Ltd on its acquisition of Charter International plc in a deal that is believed to be the largest transaction of its kind in Jersey with an estimated value of $2.426bn in cash and stock (approx £1.528bn). IPO work has included the first listing of PRC assets held by a Jersey company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (West China Cement). Guy also regularly acts for Nordic Capital in respect of acquisitions, financing and fund structuring. Guy also recently completed the complex acquisition by way of scheme of arrangement in Jersey to date when he acted for FRM Holdings on its acquisitions by MAN Group. Guy wrote a feature article for PLC Magazine’s January/February 2013 issue (being the first offshore lawyer to do so) on the CPA Global Group and FRM Holdings deals in which he was involved in “Question of Class in Merger and Acquisition deals. Case studies of the CPA and FRM deals”.
Carey Olsen
Guy Westmacott
Guy heads our Jersey Corporate Law team. He specialises in corporate and commercial matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions but has also worked extensively on corporate and project finance and restructuring mandates. He has considerable experience of international investment transactions using a variety of onshore and offshore structures. Guy has advised on a range of international transactions, often alongside major international clients and law firms, and he frequently advises on the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions, including in connection with competition and financial services laws. Prior to joining the firm, Guy worked with Eversheds and Vinson & Elkins in London and in-house with Mubadala Investment Company in Abu Dhabi. Guy brings a wealth of deal experience across a variety of sectors together with a commercial perspective and a strong appreciation of client requirements.
Bedell Cristin
Hannah Robinson
Hannah qualified and practised as a solicitor in England & Wales for four years before relocating to Jersey. Hannah has experience in a broad spectrum of commercial property matters including landlord and tenant, secured lending, portfolio management and residential development.
Bedell Cristin