Carey Olsen

Elizabeth is counsel and Head of Wills and Probate in Jersey's Trusts and Private Wealth team. Elizabeth has been practising Jersey law since 1993 and has developed a broad practice with particular experience in the areas of wills, succession, estate planning and probate.

Pierre Ali-Noor

Pierre Ali-Noor is counsel in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth and litigation teams in Jersey. He specialises in the court-related aspects of the trusts and private wealth team’s practice and is engaged in a broad spectrum of private wealth work covering advisory, administrative and contentious trusts matters. Pierre is ranked as a Rising Star in Dispute Resolution in Jersey by the Legal 500 UK and is featured in the Private Client Global Elite Directory, a respected global directory of the world's top private client and trust and estates litigation talent.

Alex Ohlsson

Alex is recognised as a leading expert in corporate and finance law; regularly instructed by leading global law firms and financial institutions. Alex is a member of various regulatory and industry bodies, including the financial and commercial law sub-committee of the Jersey Law Society, which review as well as initiate proposals for legislative changes.

Alexa Saunders

Alexa is head of the trusts and private wealth group in Jersey and has a broad non-contentious trust practice. Alexa regularly advises in connection with private family trusts, employee benefit trusts and pension trusts, including on the establishment of new trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising in connection with the ongoing administration and restructuring of complex trust structures. Alexa also advises in connection with philanthropic and charitable structures as well as foundations. Alexa is ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, and features in the 2024 Private Client Global Elite Directory.

Andrea Steel

Andrea has considerable expertise in a wide range of fund structuring, formation, administration and regulatory matters, with particular knowledge of private equity and real estate funds. She has a track record of building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and demonstrating commitment to organisational aims, values and strategies.

Andreas Kistler

Andreas Kistler is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth and litigation teams in Jersey. He specialises in the court-related aspects of the trusts and private wealth team's practice and has acted in numerous cases involving allegations of breach of trust, fraud and professional negligence, both for plaintiffs and defendants. He also has experience of mediation of such disputes. He is also regularly involved in applications by trustees for administrative directions, applications by trustees and beneficiaries for relief on grounds of mistake, applications for orders approving compromises of disputes on behalf of minor, unborn and unascertained beneficiaries and applications for rectification of trust instruments. In addition, he practises all other aspects of Jersey commercial litigation, including disputes concerning Jersey companies, contractual disputes and Jersey intellectual property rights. Andreas is ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, and features in the 2024 Private Client Global Elite Directory.

Ashley Morrison

Ashley specialises in securitisation and structured finance transactions for clients which include global investment banks and issuers. In particular, Ashley has worked on numerous high yield bond issuances with the leading law firms in London, a number of synthetic securitisations and has been involved in the Jersey elements of several credit card securitisation structures. She also advises on structured finance deals including equity placings as well as the issue of convertible bonds by Jersey incorporated issuers. Ashley also has extensive experience listing specialist debt securities on The International Stock Exchange (TISE) including the listing of high yield notes, credit-linked notes and variable funding notes on TISE.

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.

Christopher 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.

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.

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.

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

Fiona Dalton

Fiona is counsel in Carey Olsen's corporate team and advises clients in respect of corporate, banking and property finance matters. She focuses on real estate finance transactions, and acts for financial institutions and corporate borrowers, including real estate funds, private equity funds, pension funds, asset managers, property institutions and high net worth individuals/ family offices in the structuring, investment and sale and purchase of real estate. She has particular knowledge of Jersey property unit trusts, spvs, limited partnerships and all types of joint venture structures and arrangements and can advise on all aspects of lending, borrowing and security in relation to these structures. Fiona's work extends to security reviews, enforcement advice and restructuring and she advises on both global and local finance transactions. In addition she has experience of cross boarder finance transactions and is familiar with and has drafted (to the satisfaction of the Shariyah Review Bureau) Islamic finance documents.

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”.

Huw Thomas

Huw is a partner in Carey Olsen's Jersey office specialising in employment law, data protection and regulatory issues. Huw is one of Jersey's leading employment lawyers and has been advising on employment issues, data protection and information management for more than 20 years. He advises in both Jersey and Guernsey as part of the Carey Olsen Channel Islands Employment Team. He primarily advises employers across a broad cross section of the private and public sectors, with a particular focus on the financial services industry. He has been ranked in the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 guides for employment law for a number of years and the employment team is consistently ranked in the top tier for employment. Huw is a regular speaker at breakfast briefings, conferences and seminars.

James Mulholland

One of Jersey's leading funds lawyers, partner James Mulholland's experience covers a wide breadth of investment funds and corporate work with a particular emphasis on private equity funds. Throughout the ten years spent in the City at Slaughter and May and O'Melveny & Myers, James has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and listing transactions, as well as on portfolio acquisitions, refinancings and management spin outs in the private equity and real estate funds space. Examples of deals he was instructed on include fund-related capital markets with clients listed on LSE (AIM and the main market) and NYSE Euronext, such as AP Alternative Assets, LP and Ingenious Media Active Capital Limited. James has also worked on several of the largest and most complex M&A transactions in the City, including Songbird Estates’ successful takeover of Canary Wharf PLC, the successful takeover of BAA PLC by a consortium led by Ferrovial and Apollo Management’s buyout of Regent Seven Seas cruise line business. Since joining Carey Olsen, James has attracted an enviable client base, including a number of new clients. Recent transactions of note include advising on the establishment of Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate plc, a closed-ended collective investment fund incorporated in Jersey – the largest ever real estate fund to be listed on the LSE (£1bn); advising leading Nordic private equity firm FSN Capital Partners on its latest fund FSN Capital IV which closed with €600m worth of commitments; advising Hastings Insurance Group on investment by Goldman Sachs private equity funds valuing the business at £700m; and advising ICG on the largest ever secondary deal in Europe valued at 880m euros.

James Willmott

James' practice covers a wide range of corporate activities with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and private equity transactions. He also has significant experience advising on joint ventures, restructurings, reorganisations, start-ups and technical and regulatory matters (in particular company law and competition, insurance, banking and other financial services regulation), and has acted as an expert witness on Jersey company law. His recent experience includes advising on a $2.6bn private equity acquisition of an environmental science business, the formation of a $7bn precious metals joint venture and a number of public takeovers on the UK markets. James' clients include LSE Main Market, NYSE, Nasdaq, AIM and TISE listed companies, global financial institutions including banks, insurance companies and brokers, investment managers and fintech businesses, natural resources companies and international retail groups. He also has a strong local M&A and corporate advisory practice. James has featured in The Jersey & Guernsey Law Review 2017, having authored an article on Filing of Shareholder Agreements and external documents: Jersey Law Practice. James is rated as a 'Leading Lawyer - Highly Regarded' in IFLR1000 and a 'Next Generation Partner' by Legal 500, and is ranked by Chambers UK.

John Kelleher

John specialises in commercial disputes. His specialisms include: public law and judicial review, law of contract, property law, planning law and general commercial litigation. He is a recognised leader in Jersey contract law, Jersey customary law and Jersey property law. John was elected President of the Law Society of Jersey in 2017 and served in that office until 2021. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

John McCormick

John practices all aspects of commercial litigation with a particular focus on contentious trusts, professional negligence, shareholder disputes and fraud and asset tracing.

Julie Currie

Julie Currie is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen and specialises in pensions. She advises local and international trustee clients on scheme governance, administration and regulatory issues, in addition to project work including transfers, scheme restructures, risk transfers (i.e. buy-ins and buy-outs) and benefit change exercises. Julie advises pension providers and employer clients on their obligations in respect of existing schemes, on the establishment of new pension schemes, the amendment of schemes and on scheme-specific projects including liability management exercises. Julie has extensive experience advising in respect of defined benefit, defined contribution and master trust schemes. Julie is the firm's first pan-Channel Island lawyer and divides her working week between the firm's Jersey and Guernsey offices.

Kate Andrews

Kate has over 20 years' experience of cross-border corporate finance transactions with particular experience in restructuring and corporate rescue (including debt-for-equity transactions), enforcement, insolvency, acquisition finance, fund finance and real estate finance. Kate's recent transactions include advising: The creditors committee in relation to the c.£200 million debt restructuring of FatFace, a UK-headquartered apparel retail business The committee of lenders in the debt restructuring of Travelex The ad hoc committee of creditors and the company in connection with the financial restructuring of Doncasters Group The ad hoc committee of convertible bondholders of Steinhoff Finance Holding GmbH The ad hoc group of bondholders on the restructuring of bonds issued by Vieo B.V. and capital restructuring of Lebara Group The ad hoc group creditors in respect of the restructuring of a "household name" UK retailer The lenders and initial purchasers in respect of super senior revolving credit facilities and related bond issuances for Domestic & General Group A satellite technology group in respect of the establishment of a Jersey holding structure and related financing The bidder in the financing of a public takeover of a Swedish-listed company incorporated in Switzerland The lenders in respect of the restructuring and US$1bn refinancing of the holding structure for two offshore oil drilling rigs Kate has also been involved with a number of legislative proposals in Jersey.

Katherine Tresca

Katherine is a senior associate in the Jersey corporate group. She works on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, equity capital markets, reorganisations, joint ventures and general corporate advice. Experience includes advising: Stars Group on its recent acquisition of Sky Betting & Gaming Silverfleet Capital on the sale of Ipes, a leading provider of fund administration and other outsourced services in the private equity sector, to Apex Group Strategic Value Partners on its acquisition of Vita Group from TPG Butterfield on its acquisition of Deutsche Bank's banking and custody business in Guernsey, Jersey and the Cayman Islands Cape on its recommended £332 million takeover by the Altrad group, one of the leading global providers of industrial services The majority shareholder of the C5 Alliance Group, which provides technology services to businesses across the Channel Islands and employs 200 people in the Channel Islands, on the sale of the business to BDO in Jersey BLJ Limited (formerly Bank Leumi (Jersey) Limited) on the sale of its Jersey private banking business to EFG Private Banking (Channel Islands) Limited and the sale of its trust company business, Leumi Overseas Trust Corporation Limited, to Valla Limited Apax Partners LLP in the sale of a significant minority interest in GlobalLogic to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the subsequent disposal to Partners Group Bridgepoint on the acquisition of Moneycorp Quotient on its NASDAQ IPO Polymetal International plc on its reverse takeover of Kazakhgold and subsequent LSE Main Market IPO

Keith Dixon

Keith is a partner in the Trusts & Private Wealth group. Keith regularly advises a mix of global and institutional trustees, family offices and high net worth private clients on commercial and private trusts, foundations, charitable and not-for-profit organisations, succession, pension and estate planning issues as well as on associated regulatory and compliance matters. Keith has practised Jersey law since 1994. Initially he had a broad common law practice and following his call to the Bar in Jersey he represented several major institutions in a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters before the Royal Court of Jersey. Between 2004 and 2007 he acted as a director of a Jersey based trust company business and had primary responsibility for the administration of a sizable family office structure during that period. He has written for several journals and frequently speaks at seminars and conferences on trust law and private client matters. Keith is ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, and also features in the 2024 Private Clients Global Elite Directory.

Lauren Glynn

Lauren is a senior specialist family lawyer. She has significant experience and offers robust and straightforward advice to clients in relation to all types of relationship generated issues, including: pre- and post- nuptial agreements divorce and civil partnership dissolution and cohabitees' disputes complex contested financial disputes arising on relationship breakdown, including multi-jurisdictional disputes contested proceedings relating to children, including applications for contact, residence, leave to remove, prohibited steps order and abduction Lauren will always seek to find a sensitive and family-focussed solution to relationship generated disputes and promotes alternative dispute resolution solutions wherever possible. When litigation cannot be avoided, Lauren has a reputation as a perceptive, persuasive and accomplished Advocate having considerable experience appearing before the Royal Court of Jersey at all levels. Lauren is the Chairman of the Jersey Family Law Association (JFLA), having previously sat as Treasurer and Committee Member. The JFLA was established in 1996 and aims to improve the practice of family law in Jersey, by promoting and encouraging the sensitive, efficient and economic handling of family disputes, including effective conciliation and mediation procedures, as well as providing education and training in matters of family law and practice. Lauren is also a member of Resolution, formerly known as the Solicitors Family Law Association, an organisation of family law professionals.

Lizzie Chamberlain

Lizzie acts for a varied client base on both the lender and borrower side of a range of debt finance transactions including real estate investment and development finance, investment funds financing and general corporate facilities. Lizzie supports her clients with deal structuring, acquisitions, refinancing and debt restructuring.

Louise Woolrich

Louise joined Carey Olsen in 2011 and is a member of the dispute resolution and litigation team in Jersey. Louise is an experienced advocate and trust litigator, representing clients in contentious and semi contentious trust matters. She has also acted in corporate and fund disputes, and regularly advises clients on notices received under tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs). Louise has authored articles for legal journals and regularly speaks in Jersey and overseas on developments in Jersey trust law.

Lyndsay Houlette

Lyndsay is a senior associate in the property team in Jersey. She advises clients on a wide range of commercial real estate work, including acquisitions and disposals, property development, landlord and tenant matters, investments and asset management. Lyndsay also has significant experience in construction and infrastructure projects including both ground-mounted and roof-mounted solar developments. She also frequently provides property law support to our corporate and banking teams in respect of high value, multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing, as well as acting for a significant number of lenders in respect of residential and commercial loans.

Marcus Pallot

Marcus’ practice covers three main areas: contentious regulatory; insolvency; and financial services litigation. His experience includes having acted for the Jersey Financial Services Commission in the matter of JFSC v Black, but he now concentrates on acting for regulated entities involved in actual or threatened proceedings, including regulatory matters and investigations where the JFSC, or other regulators, are on the other side. He successfully acted for a regulated trust company in defending an application by the JFSC that a series of unit trusts under their stewardship be placed into a court ordered liquidation. In addition, he is regarded as the lawyer of choice for the majority of the island's larger banking groups on regulatory issues. In the insolvency arena, Marcus' reputation as a leading practitioner has been established on the back of a series of successful, innovative applications which have expanded the reach of Jersey's insolvency laws. In particular he is renowned for his ability to persuade the court to exercise its discretion to permit novel processes to be adopted as part of Jersey law so as best to serve the needs of his clients. Notably, he succeeded in persuading the Royal Court that it could use powers under the Just & Equitable jurisdiction to permit what was a Pre-pack Administration in circumstances where administration itself is not a remedy known to Jersey law. Marcus leads the eGaming team in Jersey and has been advising clients since the inception of the eGaming industry. He is fully conversant with the various licensing and gambling laws and can provide company formation, licensing and regulatory advice as well as assisting on full migrations of existing businesses. Carey Olsen can also provide on-going legal support through its related practices. The final significant area of Marcus' work is his financial services civil litigation practice. He has recently been involved in a hotly contested and long-running breach of trust matter involving catastrophic loss of trust fund monies where his regulated client's position was protected, the matter resolved at a fraction of the amounts claimed and settlement effected principally from insurance policies against a background where coverage was denied at the outset. Notwithstanding his reputation as a commercial and pragmatic lawyer, when the time comes he is renowned as a punchy and aggressive advocate, who is passionate about his work and extremely hard working and diligent.

Matthew Ecobichon

Matthew is counsel and advises clients including leading international law firms and global institutions on a range of structured finance securitisation and high yield transactions. Matthew regularly advises on transactions involving Eurobonds and other TISE listed securities, including high yield and variable funding notes.

Mike Kushner

Mike is a senior associate in the litigation team in Jersey, specialising in contentious regulatory matters. Mike is a subject matter specialist in financial services, franchising, international trade and sanctions. He is trusted by clients to simplify complex legal matters and deliver value-added solutions. Mike is admitted in England & Wales (Solicitor) and South Africa (Attorney).

Nienke Malan

Nienke is a Jersey qualified solicitor with over a decade of post qualification experience in investment funds and international commercial matters. Specialising in cross border investment and collective investment vehicles, Nienke’s clients praise her for her proactive and solutions focused approach to every transaction, irrespective of size and complexity. She pursues excellence in everything she does and her ability to see the bigger picture has led her to work with many significant local and international fund managers, real estate investors and financial institutions on transactions with a Jersey nexus. Nienke is passionate about Africa and with local South African knowledge and connections she aims to assist emerging and established fund managers with an African focus to achieve their goals. Nienke’s practice includes advising on the establishment, structuring, regulation and launch of investment funds, negotiating and drafting a broad range of commercial agreements and advising on the sale and financing of structures holding international real estate (including JPUTs). She advises on the full spectrum of generalist funds and sector funds, including real estate, private equity, venture capital, buy-out, infrastructure, housing, technology, healthcare, impact, ESG, renewable energy and hedge funds. Having practised in South Africa, New York and Jersey, Nienke has worked with a broad range of clients across multiple asset classes and creates lasting relationships with her clients and intermediaries. She is ranked in Chambers and listed as a rising star by IFLR1000 and a key lawyer by Legal 500.

Oliver Lindop

Oliver is counsel and Advocate in Carey Olsen's Dispute Resolution team specialising in regulatory law. Oliver turns around advice on trade sanctions as applied in Jersey on short notice in most common scenarios in addition to assisting clients triage the issues and seek appropriate advice on foreign sanctions (e.g. US OFAC sanctions).

Peter Sherwood

Peter is a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team in the Cayman Islands. He advises on all aspects of insolvency litigation, general banking and commercial litigation and non-contentious insolvency and restructurings.

Peter German

Peter’s practice is corporate and banking, including local and international banking with a particular focus on real estate finance and restructuring. Peter specialises in providing partner-led, practical commercial legal advice within the context of the multi-jurisdictional transactions in which Jersey vehicles tend to operate; and in adapting Jersey law solutions to the commercial imperatives of the overall transaction. Peter advises financial institutions, trustees, borrowers and other entities on all aspects of Jersey corporate, security and banking law. He also advises local and international banking institutions on banking regulation matters.

Rebecca McQuillan

Rebecca advises clients in respect of a diverse range of corporate and finance matters, with a particular focus on acquisition finance (sponsor and lender side), fund finance and restructuring. Her clients include multinational private equity sponsors, financial institutions and alternative capital providers, as well as local lenders and companies. Rebecca also has experience in structured finance and the issuance of high yield bonds. Rebecca's recent transactions include advising: the ad hoc group of creditors in relation to the debt-for-equity restructuring of Pizza Express, the UK and international casual dining group the committee of lenders in the debt restructuring of Travelex the bidder in the financing of a public takeover of a Swedish-listed company incorporated in Switzerland, including the establishment of a Jersey holding structure and the entry into bridge financing, a bond issuance to refinance the bridge, and the listing of the bond the ad hoc group of bondholders on the restructuring of bonds issued by Vieo B.V. and capital restructuring of Lebara Group the ad hoc committee of convertible bondholders of Steinhoff Finance Holding GmbH.

Robert Milner

Robert is one of Jersey’s leading funds lawyers. He acts for a wide range of boutique and institutional fund managers and has extensive experience in establishing private, expert, unregulated and listed Jersey funds. He has particular expertise in establishing fund manager vehicles and structures, including migrating fund managers to Jersey from other jurisdictions. Robert also advises on the establishment, financing and sale of Jersey vehicles holding UK and European-situate real estate (including JPUTs) and advises on the structuring and listing of REITs, having been a member of the TISE Rules Committee responsible for amending the listing rules to streamline the requirements for REITs. Recent transactions include the establishment of the c$100bn SoftBank Vision Fund, the migration to Jersey and listing on the London Stock Exchange of EJF Investments Ltd, and the listing on TISE of each of GRIP REIT plc, Clipstone Logistics REIT plc and Bricklane Residential REIT plc. His hedge fund clients include Brevan Howard, BlueCrest, Systematica, Rokos and Altis. Robert is ranked as a ‘leading individual’ by Legal 500, is described by Chambers as a 'leading funds lawyer' and is 'highly regarded' by IFLR 1000.

Robert Dobbyn

Robert Dobbyn is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth group in Jersey. Robert is an expert in private client structuring under Jersey law. In particular, he advises on the establishment and ongoing administration of Jersey law trusts, foundations and complex private trust company arrangements. He also assists his colleagues in other teams with transactional corporate or finance work from a trusts perspective, and with semi-contentious or contentious trust matters. His clients include settlors and beneficiaries around the world as well as their trustees and onshore advisers, especially those based in London, Switzerland and the Middle East. He has been ranked in the Chambers and Partners HNW, Global, Europe and UK guides for Trusts in Jersey for many years running and also in the Legal 500 Private Client, Trusts and Tax guides for Jersey. In addition, he contributes regularly to industry journals and publications dealing with matters concerning Jersey trusts, foundations and succession law.

Robin Smith

Robin is consistently recognised for his ability to deal with a wide range of international corporate and finance transactions. He has acted on numerous significant portfolio acquisitions and disposals. He often acts for both lenders and borrowers on complex financings, refinancings and restructurings and has significant experience in relation to the financing of investment funds. Robin advises global banks and large corporates as well as smaller privately held entities. Robin regularly establishes new Jersey structures, including corporates, limited partnerships and unit trusts. He also has experience advising in relation to the establishment, transfer and redomiciliation of banking business in Jersey. Robin is a director of Carey Olsen Corporate Finance Limited which provides sponsor services in respect of The International Stock Exchange listings and regularly advises on transactions involving Eurobonds and other TISE-listed securities.

Sarah Farrow

Sarah regularly acts for high net worth individuals, family offices and professional trustees and advises on all matters in connection with private wealth structures, family offices, philanthropic structures and foundations. Sarah has particular experience in advising on the restructuring of complex international structures to simplify them and better suit the needs and wishes of those for whose benefit they are held, including high profile families. Sarah also advises in connection with problems or disputes arising in the private wealth context, including negotiation of confidential multi-party settlements. Sarah has been involved in many private applications to the Royal Court of Jersey for the resolution of issues and some notable hostile litigation before the Royal Court. In addition, Sarah advises clients on their exposure and/or reporting requirements under the CRS or FATCA. Sarah also advises on digital assets being held within private wealth structures. Sarah frequently speaks on all matters of trusts law including at international conferences and writes articles for industry journals. Sarah features as a rising leader in the Private Client Global Elite Directory which is a peer-nominated list of the world’s elite lawyers advising UHNW clients. She has also been named in eprivateclient's inaugural Top 35 Under 35 list for the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies and also in their Channel Islands list. Sarah also features on Citywealth's Leaders List and has been recognised in their Future Leaders Awards.

Simon Marks

Simon specialises in debt capital markets, high yield, securitisation and structured finance transactions for clients which include global investment banks, private equity groups and issuers. Simon has worked on numerous high yield bond issuances with the leading law firms in London and New York and has been involved in the Jersey elements of several credit card securitisation structures. Simon has also advised on the Jersey elements of a significant number of credit linked notes which are issued as part of synthetic securitisation structures. Simon advised the States of Jersey with its debut bond issuance in 2014 and also assisted with the subsequent listing of the securities on The International Stock Exchange. He has acted in relation to a number of cashbox transactions relating to equity placings and the issue of convertible bonds by UK plcs and Jersey incorporated issuers. Simon has experience of restructuring securitisation and structured finance structures. Simon has extensive experience with listing specialist debt securities on The International Stock Exchange including the listing of high yield bonds, credit-linked notes and variable funding notes on the exchange. In 2017 Simon's team at Carey Olsen listed more securities than any other sponsor. Simon has also been involved with a number of legislative proposals in Jersey.

Stephen Fitzgerald

Stephen has a broad non-contentious trust practice advising many of the leading Jersey trust companies on all aspects of trusts, foundations and private companies. His practice also includes aspects of share/cash based employee incentives and pensions. Stephen’s practice has a particular emphasis on the drafting of bespoke trust and foundation documents for commercial and private wealth purposes. As a former member of the Corporate Group he has acted on a range of corporate/commercial matters (including share sales and property financing). Stephen has been seconded to local institutional trust companies to advise on various projects.

Suzanne Kingston

Suzanne is a consultant in the family law team. Formerly a partner at Withers LLP Suzanne has more than 30 years’ experience as a family lawyer. She advises and supports clients on a wide range of issues including complex financial matters, children arrangements following separation or divorce, prenuptial agreements and cohabitation matters. Known as the 'Queen of mediation and arbitration', Suzanne is an accredited mediator and arbitrator (qualified in England and Wales) and teaches both disciplines. She has been credited with spearheading the Family Law Arbitration Scheme in England and Wales and has taught all over the world. Suzanne has a large international practice and is very involved with the International Academy of Family Lawyers.

Tarina Le Boutillier

Tarina specialises in employment law, dealing with global, multinational and local clients and advising on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. As well as employment law, Tarina has a keen interest in and frequently advises on data protection legislation and privacy related matters. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Practitioners (IAPP) and is CIPP/E and CIPM qualified.

Tristan Maultby

Tristan is a partner of Carey Olsen LLP in the firm's banking and finance practice. Widely regarded as a leading lawyer for the banking and finance industry, Tristan has extensive experience advising local and international finance institutions on real estate finance, Sharia compliant finance, leveraged finance, restructuring and security enforcement matters.

Victoria Grogan

Victoria is counsel in Carey Olsen's Jersey trusts and private wealth team. She specialises in wills, probate, capacity and estate planning matters and has 18 years of experience. She has considerable expertise and interest in the succession planning and will drafting for, and administration of, high value, complex and cross border estates. For locally based clients, Victoria can advise on all aspects of Jersey wills, probate, forced heirship, registration of immovable Wills and mental capacity law issues such as lasting powers of attorney. She also acts as professional executor, delegate and attorney. For those clients who are internationally based but with interests in Jersey, Victoria advises on all cross border and private international law matters pertaining to these. Victoria has also made Court appearances in non-contentious matters such as applications to vary a will, admit lost wills to probate and forced heirship claims. Victoria regularly writes articles for various industry journals including STEP and LEXIS and has co-edited the practice notes for Lexis on Jersey Wills and Jersey Estate Administration.

Victoria Connolly

Victoria is counsel in Carey Olsen's Trusts and Private Wealth group. She has a broad non-contentious and semi-contentious trust practice. Victoria regularly writes articles for trust industry journals and other publications and speaks at conferences and seminars on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious trust law and private client matters generally. Victoria is involved in all aspects of non-contentious trust and fiduciary work, including advising on new and complex trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising trustees in connection with the ongoing administration of trusts under their care. Victoria regularly advises in connection with employee benefit trusts, pension trusts and other similar structures as well as private family trusts, charitable trusts, non-charitable purpose trusts and foundations, acting for and advising institutional trustees in Jersey and elsewhere and also high net worth private clients and family offices. In addition, Victoria has dealt with numerous applications to the Royal Court of Jersey. She is regularly involved in acting for both trustees and beneficiaries in all types of trust proceedings, including applications by trustees for directions from the Royal Court, including in the context of beneficiaries who are involved in divorce proceedings before foreign courts, or for the blessing by the Royal Court of particularly momentous or controversial decisions and applications for the variation or rectification of trust instruments and ancillary documents. Victoria has had conduct of several ground-breaking and high profile cases before the Royal Court involving the setting aside of transactions on the ground of mistake, Hastings Bass applications and applications to the Royal Court by trustees who had been invalidly appointed.

Will Whitehead

Will specialises in commercial property transactons and regulatory matters. Particular areas of practice include real estate acquisitions and disposals (including leasehold structures) and advising on construction and development projects. Will also advises on local property financing transactions (both commercial and residential). Will acts for a number of international investors, local businesses and financial institutions, on a broad range of commercial property transactions. He is regularly instructed on commercial real estate financing transactions, and provides local procurement, planning and regulatory advice on development and construction projects. Will also advises on property aspects of corporate acquisitions including due diligence reviews and reports on property interests.

William Grace

William advises Jersey finance industry clients and international clients on financial services related disputes whether civil, criminal, contentious regulatory or a combination. This includes advisory work and advocacy. His specific expertise is in advising on money laundering matters (including corruption), regulatory and compliance investigations, disputes in the banking and trusts sectors, sanctions, production orders including TIEA work, insider dealing, reporting duties, asset recovery, reciprocal enforcement, cyber related risk and international mutual assistance generally. He places particular emphasis on working alongside clients and their in-house lawyers/compliance staff and other external advisers to implement risk management based solutions to disputes in the regulated sector. He is experienced in politically sensitive and complex matters involving multiple legal issues and jurisdictions. He often advises on higher risk business in the financial services regulated sector, whether that is in client take on, transactional support or M&A support. In addition to acting for Jersey regulated financial services businesses, he also acts for PLCs, individuals and foreign states. He is a member of the Royal Court Rules Committee advising and assisting the Royal Court in its rule making capacity.

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