Mourant

Mourant Ozannes is a law firm-led, professional services business with over 60 years' experience in the financial services sector.

We advise on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and Luxembourg and provide specialist entity management, governance, regulatory and consulting services.

We are an international and globally-integrated firm with offices in a number of the world's leading international finance centres, including London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our business is intrinsically linked to the global economy and the capital flows that support it. We serve the needs of our clients in all major time zones, facilitating responsible cross-border finance and investment, the pooling and protection of capital and the resolution of disputes.

Our clients include many of the world's leading financial institutions, international corporations, asset managers and institutional investors. We are routinely instructed to work alongside the world's pre-eminent legal, accounting and financial services firms.

We have an outstanding reputation for integrity and professional ethics, underpinned by a strong risk management culture.

Our Guernsey practice specialises in:

Banking and finance: The partners working in this area are experts in their field with practices that span the full range of offshore banking and finance work. The team acts for lenders, borrowers, arrangers, issuers, managers, trustees and other finance parties and advises 80% of the world’s top 50 banks (Bankers Almanac, 2015). The firm is regularly appointed as listing sponsor to debt securities listed on the International Stock Exchange.

Corporate: The firm’s corporate lawyers bring their expertise, versatility and problem-solving approach to bear on a full range of corporate transactions, whether small or large in scale. Known internationally for its work on the most complex and demanding transactions, the firm advises more FTSE 100 and 250 companies than any other offshore law firm (Corporate Adviser Rankings Guide, 2016).

Employment: The team is made up of highly experienced employment lawyers. It predominantly advises large and medium sized employers and the offshore operations of many global financial institutions.

Financial services and regulatory: The firm’s Regulatory practice draws together expertise on the conduct of regulated financial services, insurance and banking business in Guernsey. The firm provides highly commercial and focused legal advice in relation to a full range of offshore regulatory issues and problems that arise for financial service providers, regulators and governments.

Funds: The firm's Funds team has an international reputation as one of the leading investment funds practices in Guernsey, and advise on the formation, structuring and regulation of investment funds as well as providing ongoing legal advice to funds and fund managers. Mourant Ozannes is regularly appointed as listing sponsor to funds listed on the International Stock Exchange.

Insolvency and restructuring: The firm is involved in the largest and most high-profile insolvency-related cases in Guernsey, often cross-border in practice, and provides efficient co-ordinated advice on all aspects of complex corporate restructurings.

Insurance: The firm advises on the establishment, regulatory compliance and business operations of insurance and reinsurance companies and advises insurance managers and brokers based in Guernsey, as well as client companies seeking to carry on insurance business or transact business with locally-based insurers.

International trusts and private client: The international trusts and private client team contains some of the most experienced and well regarded trust and private client advisers, litigators and draftsmen in the offshore world. Their overriding aim is to provide exceptional client service through a substantial, integrated team covering both contentious and non-contentious matters in each jurisdiction.

Litigation: Involved in some of the most high-profile disputes in Guernsey and international cross-border cases, the Litigation team has experience advising on substantial multi-jurisdictional freezing orders; three-way disputes between funds, investment managers and custodians; breach of confidentiality, international succession disputes; insolvency and all manner of heavy commercial, common law and civil litigation.

Property: Mourant Ozannes’ highly skilled and experienced Guernsey Property team is focused on providing expert commercial property advice.