Banking and finance, corporate, funds, insolvency and restructuring, insurance, financial services and regulatory.

John is a partner who has been advising the financial services industry in Guernsey, the UK and Australia for over 20 years. He specialises in corporate, banking and finance, and funds matters, and has substantial experience in trusts, pensions and insurance. Highlight deals: John has advised on: The Royal Bank of Scotland plc – £907m credit facility to Propinvest Group involving due diligence on 28 Guernsey entities; Aviva – insurance transfer scheme sanctioned by the Royal Court of Guernsey to give effect to Aviva’s reattribution of its inherited estate. Celsius Solutions PCC Limited – programme of preference share issues arranged by Barclays Capital.

What the directories say: (IFLR1000, 2016) ranks John Lewis as a Leading Lawyer in Banking, Capital Markets, Financial Services Regulatory, Investment Funds, Corporate and M&A, Restructuring and Insolvency. The "consistently very good" John Lewis is ranked as a Leading individual and recommended in Insurance and Commercial & Banking by (Legal 500 UK, 2015). "John Lewis is 'knowledgeable and approachable'" (Legal 500 UK, 2015). (IFLR 1000, 2014) ranks John as a Leading Lawyer. "One peer asserts that John Lewis is 'someone I would turn to myself'," (Chambers UK, 2013).

Trained Allen & Overy, London and Brussels, qualified into the financial services regulatory group; in-house experience with the ING Group for three years; moved back to private practice with Minter Ellison, Sydney; solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales 1993 (currently non-practising); legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales 1996 (currently non – practising); solicitor of the High Court of Australia 1996 (currently non-practising); advocate of the Guernsey Bar 2006.

John is a member of IPEBLA (International Pension & Employee Benefit Lawyers Association), on the committee of GAPP (Guernsey Association of Pension Providers) and a director and secretary of the Guernsey Rugby Association.

University of Birmingham (1989 LLB Hons); University of New South Wales (2000 LLM corporate, commercial and taxation law); Glasgow Caledonian University (2003 certificate in captive insurance management); Universite de Caen (2005 certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Francaises et Normandes).