Carey Olsen

Andrew Tually

Andrew is a partner in Carey Olsen's Guernsey office. Andrew has significant experience in connection with the structuring, formation and regulation of Guernsey open and closed-ended collective investment schemes investing in private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds. He also advises upon significant and high value corporate and M&A transactions, including court-sanctioned schemes of arrangement, group restructures and migrations. Andrew advises a wide range of fund managers across the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Andrew Munro

Andrew is an advocate of ten years' standing with twenty years' corporate experience, including fifteen years in a senior role at another offshore magic circle firm prior to joining Carey Olsen. He has covered all core areas of offshore non-contentious practice and has managed many large transactions including Guernsey firsts. Andrew has also gained experience as a director of Guernsey regulated financial services businesses and listed vehicles.

Ardra Swaraj

Ardra is an associate in the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. She advises a variety of private clients and fiduciaries on all aspects of Guernsey fiduciary law, including the creation and administration of offshore trusts and corporate structures. Ardra also advises on Guernsey inheritance laws, the creation of wills and the administration of estates.

Daniel Long

Daniel is a senior associate in the corporate team based in Guernsey. He advises on fund formation, structuring, management and cross-border financings involving Guernsey companies in addition to general M&A, corporate and commercial transactions. Daniel enjoys working as a team with UK and international onshore law firms and clients to deliver on complex and high value projects.

Graham Hall

Graham is a consultant for the corporate and finance group in Guernsey where he was previously head and senior partner until December 2016. He is among the most respected investment funds and finance lawyers internationally and has been in professional practice for over 25 years.  Graham is instructed by the world's leading banks, financial sponsors, corporates and private fund clients, including private equity firms. His client portfolio also includes a broad range of listed entities.  He has worked on many of the most significant investment funds, finance and wider corporate transactions to have involved Guernsey. Graham has been selected to advise the States of Guernsey and has contributed to much of Guernsey's company, tax and investment funds legislation during his career so far.

Henry Simpson

Henry is a senior associate in the corporate and finance team, advising on a wide range of corporate matters with particular emphasis on banking and finance and investment funds. Henry has experience in acting for both international and local clients in relation to complex and high value finance transactions, as well as on general corporate and regulatory issues.

Joanna Caen

Joanna is a counsel in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. Joanna has spent her whole career assisting families, individuals, trustees and other professionals serving high and ultra-high net worth families with asset planning, philanthropy, family company structures, dispute resolution and, increasingly, mental capacity issues. She has worked in New Zealand and Hong Kong before joining our team in Guernsey. Joanna qualified in New Zealand in 2007 and Hong Kong in 2016.

Karen Le Cras

Karen is a partner and general counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation Group in Guernsey. She specialises in corporate and commercial disputes, with a particular emphasis on banking, finance and trusts litigation and asset tracing and freezing orders. Karen also frequently advises companies, shareholders and directors in relation to corporate insolvency matters, and banks on enforcement of security. Karen also advises in relation to regulatory matters, including regulatory investigations. Karen has wide advocacy experience and appears frequently before the Guernsey Courts.  Karen's work often involves cross-border and conflicts of law issues. Recent matters in which Karen has acted include: advising an international investment bank in relation to alleged mis-selling of investments acting for the general partner of a fund in relation to the removal of the fund's investment adviser acting for the corporate trustee of a trust in a claim for breach of trust arising out of investments made by the trustees acting for a retiring trustee in relation to a dispute concerning the extent of a trustee's right of indemnity against trust assets acting for a global telecoms company in locating and securing assets in enforcement of a US$2 billion judgment acting for a leading investment bank in obtaining freezing order relief ancillary to extra-jurisdictional proceedings acting for a company in a dispute with a shareholder and former director; acting for the directors of an insolvent multi-million dollar hedge fund in applying for a compulsory winding up order acting for a leading high street bank in enforcing its security over the realty of a company to secure repayment of significant outstanding loans acting for employees and directors of a regulated entity in connection with a regulatory investigation.   Karen's clients include local trust companies and retail banks, private companies, international investment banks, hedge funds, insurers and accountants. Karen is frequently instructed by leading law firms, both in the UK and elsewhere. Karen is named in the Citywealth Leaders List 2014 in the Honours List for Contentious Trusts, as a Leading Practitioner by the IBA's "Who's Who Legal" of Asset Recovery Lawyers 2014, and is recognised in the Citywealth IFC Power Women Top 100 list. Karen is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Experts and the Institute of Directors.

Laila Arstall

Counsel

Nicola Hopkins

Nicola is Senior Associate in Carey Olsen's property team in Guernsey. Nicola specialises in all aspects of family and private client law, including matrimonial matters such as divorce, judicial separation, division of family assets, adoption and issues pertaining to children. She is also an experienced family mediator and regularly assists separating couples or the wider family in seeking an amicable resolution of financial and child matters through the mediation forum.

Rachel de la Haye

Rachel is a partner in the corporate and finance team, advising on a wide range of corporate matters with particular emphasis on investment funds and financing. Rachel has a particularly keen interest in the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds as well as on general corporate and regulatory issues and banking and financing transactions.

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.

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 also regularly advises on criminal matters, appearing in the courts across the Bailiwick in criminal proceedings. 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).

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).