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.

Adam Collieson

Adam Collieson is head of the property department in Bermuda. Adam’s core practice is focused on commercial and residential real estate transactions where he has extensive experience advising both international and domestic clients on a wide range of complex property issues. Adam has a reputation for providing his clients with clear and considered advice.

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.

Alex Hall Taylor KC

Alex Hall Taylor is a barrister, King's Counsel, partner and head of Carey Olsen’s BVI Dispute Resolution and Litigation team. Alex has over 25 years' court experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution across a broad range of commercial, company, shareholder, trusts, insolvency, restructuring, civil fraud, asset tracing, security enforcement, tax, professional liability and fiduciary claims, arbitrations and mediations. He has extensive case management, interlocutory, trial and appellate advocacy experience including before the Privy Council. His practice is principally contentious, involving advocacy, tactical advice and strategic expertise in high value, complex, document heavy matters that are frequently multi-jurisdictional in nature. He is a CEDR-accredited mediator. Alex is ranked as a leading individual in BVI dispute resolution in the most recent editions of both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Global, where he is said to stand out for 'his knowledge, experience and responsiveness' and is described by market sources as 'an exceptionally bright, sensible litigator', 'fantastic' and a 'real delight to work with'. Alex regularly acts and advises on trusts and shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice claims, alleged breaches of trust or of shareholder agreements, rectification actions, minority squeeze-outs and just and equitable winding up applications as well as on fraud and asset tracing claims and regulatory, corporate investigation, anti-corruption and money-laundering assignments. Alex is often involved in seeking or defeating interim remedies such as injunctions, the appointment of receivers and Norwich Pharmacal relief, often on an urgent basis. He has acted as an expert witness on BVI law, practice and procedure in foreign proceedings. Recent BVI experience includes: Enforcement of arbitration award in the Unitel/Vidatel Angolan telecommunications dispute Obtaining discharge of an interim injunction obtained in support of Swiss arbitration proceedings in the medical imaging industry Acting for lead secured creditors in the billion $ restructuring of the Brazilian Constellation offshore drilling group, including first ever appointment of ‘light touch’ joint provisional liquidators in support of foreign restructuring Resisting unreasonable interference by BVI Receivers of BVI company in a Japanese listed subsidiary Liquidations and related applications and claims in connection with frauds by a former Sao Paolo mayor, including obtaining first reported BVI judgment on pooling related liquidations Advising trustees of long-established family trusts on allegations of breach of duty and potential application for removal by warring beneficiaries

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.

Alexander Collis

Alex is counsel in the corporate and finance team of Carey Olsen in Bermuda and advises on all aspects of corporate and finance transactions. In his finance practice Alex has a particular emphasis on leveraged finance, asset finance, project finance, real estate finance and general corporate lending. In his corporate practice, Alex has experience advising on corporate and commercial law, with a focus on incorporations, M&A, group reorganisations and restructurings.

Alexandra Fox

Associate Alexandra advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and commercial law, specializing in corporate finance and corporate reorganisations. She has extensive experience acting for domestic and foreign financial institutions and corporate obligors on a variety of domestic and international financings including syndicated and bilateral financing transactions, asset-based financings, acquisition financings and securitizations. Alexandra has also advised on both domestic and cross-border mergers and amalgamations, corporate governance and regulatory compliance issues, segregated account company structures, and equity investment. She provides legal advice to a wide array of sectors including, agriculture, automotive and transportation, healthcare and pharmaceutical, tourism and hospitality, sports and media, energy and natural resources, fintech, insurance and private client services.

Alexandra Hehir

Alex is a senior associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen’s London office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters.

Alistair Russell

Alistair is a partner in the corporate and finance group of Carey Olsen in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of finance, corporate, investment funds and commercial law. He has advised clients on a broad range of transactions including financing, private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets.

Amelia Tan

Amelia is counsel in Carey Olsen's litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation, with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder / director litigation, corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Amelia also has significant experience in seeking urgent interlocutory relief for clients, including freezing orders and injunctions, and enforcement matters and has represented clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. She regularly advises listed companies and financial institutions, high net worth individuals and insolvency practitioners in the region. Amelia has been listed as a Rising Star in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Guide. She has also been named one of the five global finalists (and only recipient in Asia) of the IWIRC Rising Star Award in 2022 and is part of the International Insolvency Institute's (III) highly prestigious and successful NextGen Leadership Program Class XII (2023). Clients speak highly of Amelia, describing her as an "outstanding individual within Carey Olsen" and who is "technically solid, business savvy and always responsive". Amelia has been involved in many of the leading decisions in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and has successfully acted for clients in complex factual and legal disputes involving novel issues of law. Recent experience include: Successfully acted for the Claimant in a four-week trial in relation to a derivative action brought on behalf of a Liberian company for a claim for breach of directors' duties, dishonest assistance and unjust enrichment: Kathryn Ma Wai Fong v Incredible Power Limited et al (BVIHCOM 2015/0047) (18 March 2021). Successfully acted for Malaysia's largest venture capital fund in the liquidation of an Exempted Limited Partnership ("ELP") where the General Partner had failed to discharge its duties as voluntary liquidators, and is the first Cayman law decision where the Cayman Grand Court clarified that voluntary liquidators of an ELP can be subject to court supervision and can be granted powers that are reserved for court-appointed liquidators: In the Matter of ECM Straits Fund I, LP (FSD 230 of 2022 (RPJ)). Advising and acting as Cayman Islands and BVI counsel for a leading crypto financial service provider in group restructuring involving entities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Cayman Islands and BVI. Successfully acted for a minority shareholder in the Court of Appeal in relation to the setting aside of service out of jurisdiction and the stay of unfair prejudice proceedings against majority shareholders where the claim against the company is stayed in favour of arbitration: Siong Beng Seng v Caldicott Worldwide Limited BVIHCMAP 2020/0020 (1 June 2021). Successfully acted for a minority shareholder in the Court of Appeal on the novel issue of whether an injunction granted under section 43 of the BVI Arbitration Act 2013 is appealable: Hector Finance Group Limited v Caldicott Worldwide Limited BVIHCVAP 2020/0012 (1 June 2021). Acting for and advising an ASX-listed resources company in relation to key assets in a BVI company and related winding-up and recognition proceedings in the BVI. Acting for majority shareholders in the just and equitable winding up of Cayman Islands company on the basis that there was a breakdown of trust and confidence in the management of the company. Acting as BVI advisers to receivers of substantial assets held by Agritrade Resources Limited, a subsidiary of Agritrade International Pte Ltd which has been placed into interim judicial management by the Singapore High Court with USD1.55 billion in outstanding liabilities and faces claims from dozens of creditors including allegations from major lenders of perpetrating a “massive, premeditated and systemic fraud”.

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.

Andrew Boyce

Andrew is a partner in the corporate and finance team and is recognised both locally and internationally for investment and finance transactions across all entity types. Andrew has specialist experience in the structuring and establishment of open and closed-ended investment funds and the credit and structured finance products related to them. In particular he has built an enviable reputation in his core expertise of private equity fund formation having advised a range of global investment houses as well as new managers on fund establishment, investment structuring, asset acquisitions and disposals and regulatory issues. Andrew's banking and finance expertise compliments his investment funds core practice and covers a range of credit types including capital call facilities, leveraged financing and asset finance. He has acted for global banking institutions and alternative credit providers as well as institutional borrowers. Andrew is instructed by leading UK, European and international law firms and financial institutions, and is recognised by global legal directories and publications. As a qualified British Virgin Islands lawyer Andrew also advises on the above in relation to British Virgin Islands law from his base in Guernsey.

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.

Annette Alexander

Annette advises on a broad range of corporate matters with a particular emphasis on the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds, regulatory compliance, capital markets and banking and finance. She advises on the formation of all types of alternative investment funds, including private equity funds, listed funds, hedge funds, sustainable investment funds and property funds as well as banking and finance transactions. Annette advises many of the largest fund promoters and financial institutions both locally and internationally. Annette arranges listings of investment funds, trading companies and bonds on The International Stock Exchange, including acting as sponsor (through Carey Olsen Corporate Finance Limited) and advising on compliance with the continuous obligations associated with a TISE listing.

Anthony McKenzie

Anthony is the managing partner of our Singapore office and the head of our corporate practice in Asia. He is also a founding partner of Carey Olsen's Asia offices and a non-resident partner of the Hong Kong office. Anthony is a specialist in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Bermuda law and is one of only two partners in Singapore admitted to practise these three key offshore laws. He is also the only Cayman Islands and BVI admitted and Bermuda registered transactional partner in Singapore. Anthony has a broad range of experience in offshore corporate, investment funds and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, secured and unsecured financing arrangements, preference share issues, IPOs and capital markets transactions. He regularly advises financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers on leveraged and acquisition finance, syndicated lending, structured finance, fund finance and secured and unsecured general corporate lending. He also has significant experience in advising clients on the structuring, formation and maintenance of regulated and unregulated investment funds in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. Other than being regarded a Leading Individual by The Legal 500, Anthony is ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by each of IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific. He has also been consistently identified by China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) in its prestigious A-List as an elite lawyer with a China practice since 2020. In particular, he is the only offshore lawyer based in Singapore distinguished on the 2022 CBLJ A-list. Other than CBLJ, Anthony is also recognised in the Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022 by Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) as part of the publication's prestigious annual A-List series. In 2019, he was also recognised by Asian Legal Business in its Offshore Client Choice List for client service in Asia. Clients describe Anthony as "a clear market leader in the offshore space. Top notch service, deep commercial understanding, striking a great balance between legal precision and commercial wisdom." He is also noted for being "extremely approachable with a can-do attitude to providing the advice needed to get transactions over the line."

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.

Ashley Fife

Ashley Fife TEP is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He provides advice in relation to the structuring, restructuring and administration of private and commercial trusts and their underlying entities. Ashley advises in respect of the formation of family offices and regulatory issues impacting upon trustees, corporate service providers, trusts and underlying entities e.g. FATCA and CRS, beneficial ownership registers, anti-money laundering/terrorist financing and economic substance requirements.

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.

Ben Morgan

Ben is head of the corporate and finance group in Guernsey and has significant experience in investment funds and corporate law gained from practising with Carey Olsen. Ben advises on the formation of all types of alternative investment funds including hedge funds, property funds and private equity funds as well as banking and finance transactions. He acts for a large number of the well-known private equity fund managers and is recognised as one of the most prominent investment funds lawyers in the Channel Islands by the Legal Media Group’s ‘Expert Guide’ on investment funds.Ben was listed in the International Who's Who Legal of Private Funds Lawyers in 2014. Ben is also a member of Carey Olsen LLP which is the firm's London office.

Bernadette Carey

Bernadette is the head of our Cayman Islands trusts and private wealth team and has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. She also has significant experience in trust litigation, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust disputes, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes. Bernadette regularly advises high net worth individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, executors, wealth managers, institutional clients, and onshore legal teams on all aspects of trusts and estates law in the Cayman Islands. She is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only and is highly selective. All members must have practiced law in the Academy's areas of interest for at least ten years and must have distinguished themselves through lecturing, writing or participation in professional organizations. They must also have demonstrated a significant interest in the continuing development of the law of their own countries. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client texts, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". Bernadette is recognised for her trusts and private client work by Chambers, Who’s Who Legal, and Legal 500 with market sources describing her as 'incredibly hard-working' and 'really first class'. She has also been described as 'an exceptional talent and a pleasure to work with'; as someone who 'stands out as being especially intelligent, considered and commercial'. Bernadette's 'perspective on both contentious and non-contentious matters is very beneficial' and 'her background in litigation means she knows what works and what doesn't when it comes to trust structuring' (Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners HNW).

Bradley Houlston

Bradley is counsel in the employment team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He has over ten years' experience advising clients on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. In addition to employment matters, Bradley advises on all aspects of Bermuda immigration law, both for corporate and individual clients, as well as data protection and privacy matters. Bradley has frequently advised on the defence of high-profile, complex and commercially-sensitive employment litigation matters, in the courts and tribunals as well as in private arbitrations. Bradley has written frequently on employment and immigration law issues for the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce magazine and in the Royal Gazette. He is a member of the Bermuda Human Resources Association and the Employment Law Association (UK).

Bryony Bird

Bryony specialises in debt capital markets and structured finance transactions for a range of clients including global financial institutions, private equity firms and issuers. She has acted on a number of transactions with leading law firms in London which include high-yield and private placement issuances, securitisations and the issue of convertible bonds. Bryony has extensive experience in listing securities on The International Stock Exchange including high-yield bonds, asset-backed securities and variable funding notes. She has also advised on a range of banking and finance deals involving Jersey vehicles.

Calvin Lee

Calvin is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate and finance team in Hong Kong. He has broad experience across a range of corporate finance, IPO and equity capital markets, M&A, and other general commercial matters. He also advises on a broad range of debt arrangements, including acquisition, leveraged and real estate financing, structured products, bond issuances, and debt restructuring.

Catherine O'Connell

Catherine is a senior associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team, based in the British Virgin Islands. Catherine moved to the BVI in 2018 and since then has gained considerable BVI litigation experience. Her caseload has largely involved shareholder disputes, fraud and asset tracing, trust litigation and insolvency proceedings. She has conducted litigation before the BVI Commercial Court, ECSC Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. Catherine has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of corporate disputes, including obtaining injunctive relief and breach of contract claims.

Charissa Ball

Charissa Ball is counsel in the corporate team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. Charissa advises on all aspects of commercial and corporate law, with a practice spanning a number of specialisations, with particular experience in corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring, redomiciling, joint ventures and debt and equity offerings. She also had considerable experience in corporate finance including IPOs, private equity investments and banking and financial services including, financial derivatives, credit and security.

Charlotte Donnelly

Charlotte is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Charlotte has acted for large pension funds, telecommunication operators and high-net-worth individuals in arbitrations and injunctions. Charlotte has experience in telecoms and property related commercial disputes in the English High Court and Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) where she has secured successful outcomes for her clients. She has also advised on a range of settlements agreements in relation to landlord and tenant disputes. Prior to joining Carey Olsen Bermuda, Charlotte was a litigation associate at the London office of international law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, having also completed her training contract at the firm. Charlotte has also worked for Slaughter and May, and Sullivan and Cromwell LLP in their corporate departments, prior to being admitted as a solicitor of England & Wales in 2019. She has spent time on secondment to the legal team at Transport for London where she assisted in a range of contentious and non-contentious commercial matters.

Cheri Minors

Cheri Minors is a senior associate in the dispute resolution practice and specializes in employment law. She advises on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She has experience advising clients on executive dismissals; restructuring and reorganizations; data protection; and sensitive grievance and disciplinary procedure advice. She has also advised clients in relation to claims for unfair dismissal; discrimination, redundancy and breach of contract. Cheri was recently (2021) appointed as a member of the Employment and Labour Relations Tribunal. Cheri also assists the private wealth practice of Carey Olsen Bermuda with advising on various non-contentious trust and estate planning matters. Cheri has over nine years of experience in a wide range of areas including private client and trusts, regulatory and employment law.

Chris Duncan

Chris Duncan is a partner in the corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He leads Carey Olsen's fintech and digital assets group across both the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, being one of the few Cayman and BVI dual qualified advisors in the fintech space. Chris advises clients on the full spectrum of fintech, crypto and digital assets matters, including, structuring and regulatory advice in connection with decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs), token issuances and early stage fundraising, centralised and decentralised exchanges, wallet providers and VC funds, NFT and gaming platforms and miningstaking operations. In addition, Chris advises clients in the regulated sector in connection with applications under both the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands VASP regimes. With a background in regulatory and tax investigations, Chris also regularly helps clients navigate requests and investigations from local and foreign regulators and authorities, leaning on his regulatory investigations background. Chris has published numerous articles and regularly speaks on panels, webinars and podcasts on all things fintech, crypto and web3. Chris is ranked in Band 2 by Chambers & Partners FinTech and is noted as being "very familiar with the blockchain/Web3 space and developments in Cayman law"and "a very sophisticated and responsive lawyer."Chris was also recently recognised in the Citywealth Top 100 Crypto Advisors for 2022 as a highly accredited advisor. Chris is a registered Trusts and Estates practitioner, and has been recognised in the Citywealth Future Leaders List in 2021, the Top 100 Private Client Lawyers in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Citywealth Lawyer of the Year (IFC) – Senior/Managing Associate category for 2020. Chris is ranked in the Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide with sources noting "he can navigate through matters seamlessly" and that he is "very commercial in his thinking". Chris regularly works on the most innovative and highest profile projects including: The formation of Cayman Islands foundation companies used in conjunction with decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and decentralised projects. Advising institutional stablecoin provider on non-custodial wallet offering under Cayman and BVI law Providing structuring and regulatory advice across the Cayman Islands and the BVI in relation the full spectrum of fintech and digital assets matters, from to private and public token sales and protocol launches to centralised and decentralised exchanges. Advising clients on the implications of the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands Virtual Assets Service Providers Acts and providing assistance with applications for registration under the same, including in connection with novel decentralised finance applications. Assisting Jambo on their significant Series A financing round. Advising clients subject to information requests and enforcement notices and assisting with compliance connected to the same. Advising on a significant pre-IPO restructuring of various Cayman Islands trusts and BVI companies in advance of multi-billion dollar IPO. The creation of a variety of private wealth structures to hold and invest crypto and digital assets.

Christine Fernandez

Christine is a member of the litigation, insolvency and restructuring team in Singapore. She has experience in commercial litigation and insolvency involving the liquidation and winding up of offshore companies, unfair prejudice claims and derivative actions. Christine is called to the bar of England & Wales as a barrister after having completed the Bar Professional Training Course and an LLM in Bar Practice, at the University of Law in London. During her training, she has had extensive experience in providing legal services to litigants-in-person by representing them in court and assisting them throughout their legal proceedings. She has shadowed barristers, solicitors and judges.

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 Anderson

Christopher is an advocate with an outstanding reputation both in Guernsey and internationally. He has significant experience in investment funds, insurance and reinsurance and protected and incorporated cell companies. Christopher has built a strong reputation in private equity having advised some of the world’s largest private equity houses as well as new fund promoters in connection with fund establishment, investment structuring, exits and regulatory issues. He has also advised the insurance and reinsurance sector for almost 25 years and has been recognised as one of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers in Expert Guides since 2004. He is also consistently listed in the International Who's Who Legal of Private Funds Lawyers.

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.

Christopher McCarthy

Christopher is a senior associate in the British Virgin Islands Dispute Resolution and Litigation team. Christopher's practice includes property, company, insolvency, and aviation disputes issues. He has been recognised by the Legal 500 UK Bar directory for his ability to "get to the heart of cases quickly" and to "add value by being very user-friendly and approachable". Christopher has acted in matters before the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the High Court of England and Wales, and the County Court, as well as in the specialist First Tier Tribunal. In 2020, he was nominated for the Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year Award, part of the Advocate Pro Bono Awards in association with LexisNexis.

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.

Claire van Overdijk

Claire is counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation team and trusts & private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. An expert in cross border disputes and private international law, Claire is recognised as a leading figure in jurisdictional issues both in the public law and private client fields. Claire has extensive experience of private client practice including contentious trust and estates work and her practice has frequently extended to cross border disputes in these fields. In the public law field Claire has represented individuals and government departments on a wide range of public law issues, particularly those that interface with chancery/commercial law.

Clinton Hempel

Clinton advises on a wide range of British Virgin Islands corporate and commercial law, including, financings and investment structures, takeovers, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and public and private equity transactions. Clinton also advises on BVI regulatory compliance and risk management.

Colin Masterton

Colin is a counsel at Carey Olsen advising on corporate, real estate finance and investment funds matters. He has acted on a number of corporate and real estate transactions involving Jersey vehicles for leading banks, private equity houses and FTSE 100 companies, and also has experience of public company work. Colin provides funds, fund service providers and fund promoters with advice on all aspects of the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds and fund service providers in Jersey.

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.

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.

Davey Le Marquand

Davey is a partner in the property department and advises on private client issues with particular expertise on property related matters including inheritance, estate and wealth management and Guernsey business matters. Davey has extensive experience of all types of Guernsey property matters covering both residential and commercial property and on taking security over real property in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Davey continues to develop a large local personal client base and regularly lectures on property and private client matters to local institutions and individuals. He also has a large notarial practice providing notarial services to a wide network of institutional and private clients.

David Jones

David is an advocate and head of the restructuring and insolvency team in Guernsey. He advises on complex restructurings and formal insolvencies in contentious, non-contentious and multi-jurisdictional matters. In his time with Carey Olsen David has been involved in many of the largest insolvencies involving Guernsey entities and global retailers. He is able to assist lenders in respect of the taking and enforcement of all forms of security. David regularly advises the boards of distressed entities and has extensive experience acting for office holders on all aspects of their appointments including the tracing and recovery of assets. David is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and R3 and sits on the young members Committee of INSOL International. David lectures on INSOL's Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency and is part of the working group tasked with updating and revising Guernsey's insolvency laws. He has also been appointed as a member of Guernsey's first ever Insolvency Rules Committee (IRC). David is listed in Who's Who Legal for Restructuring & Insolvency and Asset Recovery and is ranked in Chambers Global and The Legal 500 2024 editions. Clients say that David is "the best person in Guernsey for insolvency and restructuring work" and "He is a thought-leader in the industry, He's a very good advocate and comes up with innovative solutions to issues."

David Crosland

David is partner in Carey Olsen's Corporate team. David undertakes a wide range of corporate transactions with a particular experience in the launch of investment funds. He is regularly instructed by fund managers, UK and international law firms and other financial services firms on the launch, administration, restructuring and listing of both closed and open-ended investment funds. As well as private funds, David has advised funds that are listed on the LSE, AIM, Euronext and TISE.

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

Dean Robson

Dean is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team based in the BVI. His practice includes a range of commercial litigation matters with a focus on cross-border litigation, corporate insolvency, and contentious trusts work. Dean was named as one of eprivateclient's Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 private client practitioners in 2020 and 2021 before making both the Channel Islands and UK lists in 2022. Dean co-authored the Chambers Global Litigation and Lexology Restructuring and Insolvency practice guides for Jersey. He is a member of INSOL and the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA).

Denis Olarou

Denis is a partner in the firm's dispute resolution, litigation and insolvency practice. He advises on the laws of the Cayman Islands and of the British Virgin Islands. Denis has over a decade of experience in helping clients resolve complex high-value multi-jurisdictional disputes. His broad practice spans all aspects of insolvency litigation, fraud litigation, shareholder and partnership disputes, as well as general contract and tort claims, including applications for urgent injunctive relief. Denis has also represented clients in international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and advised on the enforcement of arbitral awards. Denis acts for insolvency practitioners, corporates, high net worth individuals and government entities. He has acted for clients from a wide variety of jurisdictions, including in particular the FSU, and the East Asia region. Denis entered the rankings in Chambers & Partners for the first time as an associate in 2018, and maintained his ranking in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Denis has published a number of articles on the subjects of insolvency, litigation, arbitration, and anti-corruption regulations. He has given numerous presentations on the subjects of enforcement, injunctive relief, and asset tracing at a variety of conferences.

Dhanshuklal Vekaria

Dhanshuklal Vekaria is counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in Hong Kong. He has a broad range of experience in the offshore and general commercial litigation context most recently advising and acting in relation to the liquidation and winding up of a number of offshore private corporates, trust and fund structures, disputes in relation to private client trusts, fair valuation disputes, injunction and freezing orders and corporate restructuring disputes. Dhanshuklal is an experienced commercial litigator and advocate with particular expertise in valuation disputes.

Dylan Wiltermuth

Dylan is a partner in Carey Olsen's banking and finance practice. His practice focuses on debt and equity capital markets, public and private M&A, securities (including CLOs) and corporate restructurings, particularly in the structured finance, private equity, financial services and energy spheres. He has spent many years advising clients on complex cross-border transactions across a wide range of jurisdictions and has a demonstrable track record of success in mitigating risk and delivering results. Commercially astute, Dylan is a transactional lawyer with a reputation for implementing complicated deals in a straightforward manner.

Elaine Gray

Elaine is partner and head of Carey Olsen's Guernsey dispute resolution and litigation team and is also deputy managing partner of Carey Olsen in Guernsey. She advises clients on commercial and trust litigation, and on employment, data protection, regulatory, competition and intellectual property matters. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in these fields and appears regularly in courts and tribunals at all levels in Guernsey. Elaine is immediate-past President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Chancery Bar Association. She was previously appointed to the Population Employment Advisory Panel as representative of Guernsey's financial service industry. Elaine was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation to the Guernsey Bar from 2018 to 2022. Elaine is a Certified International Privacy Professional (CIPP/E).

Elizabeth Killeen

Elizabeth is a partner in the firm's corporate and finance practice. She qualified as a lawyer in London before moving to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in 2008, where she began to specialise in BVI law. Elizabeth has a broad range of experience in corporate, commercial and financial transactions. She advises on cross-border debt and equity financing, joint venture arrangements, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, aircraft and other asset financing, continuations in and out of the BVI, corporate governance, corporate reorganisations, directors' duties and voluntary liquidations. She also advises clients on regulatory compliance in the BVI and structuring, forming and maintaining regulated investment funds.

Emily Cornhill

Emily is a partner in Carey Olsen’s corporate team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on investment funds. Emily regularly advises on the establishment of investment funds in the Cayman Islands and also advises investment funds and other vehicles on transactional, financing and compliance matters.

Emma Penney

Emma is a senior associate in the corporate and finance. Emma has experience in advising clients on a wide range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, open and closed-ended investment funds in Guernsey and also undertakes a range of finance transactions.

Eng How Cheow

Eng How is a member of the corporate practice based in Singapore. His areas of expertise span general corporate matters, banking and finance, as well as fintech, cryptocurrency and digital assets. For general corporate matters, he advises on a wide range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements as well as regulatory and compliance matters. For banking and finance, he acts for both financial institutions (as lenders, agents and MLAs) and corporations (as borrowers) on acquisition financing, real estate financing, syndicated financing as well as secured and unsecured general corporate financing. Last, in relation to fintech and digital assets, he advices on the setting up digital assets related structures, token issuance, early stage fund raising, and assists with Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASP) applications.

Evan Stitt

Evan is an senior associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. He advises on a wide range of corporate and finance 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.

Gavin Woods

Gavin advises on all aspects of Bermuda commercial and corporate law, specializing in corporate finance and corporate structuring. He has extensive experience in insurance-related matters, including the licensing and ongoing regulatory requirements of insurance companies and insurance intermediaries, as well as mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing and alternative risk financing transactions (including cat bonds, insurance-linked securities and side-cars) involving insurers and insurance groups. In addition, Gavin regularly advises on investment fund matters, Bermuda Stock Exchange listings, segregated accounts, the migration of companies to/from Bermuda, and a wide variety of general and structured finance transactions. Gavin represents a significant number of international insurance companies headquartered, or with substantial operations, in Bermuda providing a full suite of corporate, regulatory and finance advice as well as bespoke training to these clients. Gavin also acts for numerous global financial institutions on finance and regulatory matters. Recognised for his insurance expertise in the most recent edition of Chambers and Partners, Gavin is singled out for his work on insurance-linked securities as well as transactional and regulatory insurance mandates as "very strong" and "responsive". Gavin is also recognised by Legal 500 Caribbean as a "leading individual" in the Insurance/Reinsurance category. Gavin participates regularly at conferences and seminars and provides commentary to international and local media on the Bermuda insurance industry as well as all other aspects of Bermuda law.

George McCallum

George is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen, Bermuda and advises on all aspects of Bermuda commercial and corporate law. Throughout his career, George has developed experience in a wide range of corporate practice areas, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border financings, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and securities regulation.

Graham Stoute

Graham is based in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office and advises private and institutional clients on the establishment, re-organisation and administration of Cayman and BVI trusts and trust structures, including STAR and VISTA trusts, private trust companies, commercial trust arrangements and charitable trusts. Graham also advises generally on wills and estate planning matters, probate and resealing applications, and the administration of complex estates.

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.

Greg O'Keefe-Davis

Greg is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's British Virgin Islands (BVI) dispute resolution and litigation team, based in London. He advises on all aspects of commercial and insolvency litigation, and has particular experience in high-value, cross-border insolvencies and restructuring, and high-value contentious probate and trust disputes. Greg has also regularly acted for liquidators and receivers in the BVI, and has advised on both in and out of court appointments. Greg has regularly appeared in the Civil and Commercial Divisions of the BVI High Court, and has also appeared in the Court of Appeal, as well as running appeals up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

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”.

Harriet Mills

Harriet is a senior associate in the property team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of Cayman real estate including development, high value investment, landlord and tenant, joint ventures, real estate finance and corporate structured real estate transactions. Harriet has acted for a range of clients in respect of their property activities with particular focus on hotel and mixed-use development schemes and infrastructure projects. Her client base ranges from experienced property developers, local banks, to entrepreneurs and start-ups looking to open a new business in the Cayman Islands.

Helen Wang

Helen TEP is a partner in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, estate and private clients related disputes, fraud and investigatory cases and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin and fluent in English. Helen has extensive experiences advising clients on cross-border litigation and handling high value disputes, covering a broad range of sectors, including banking and financial services, energy and resources, insurance and high net-worth individuals. Helen has been listed as a Rising Star in The Legal 500 Asia 2023 Guide. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List, Top 10 Offshore Litigators and Asia 40 under 40 List for 2023. Clients have praised Helen for being "extremely personable, super responsive and hard working" and for her "excellent legal knowledge and commercial sense." As an active supporter of advancing women's interest in the legal community, Helen is a committee member on the IWIRC Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee and International Programming Committee. She is also the Asia lead of Carey Olsen's Women's Network which aims to facilitate meaningful collaboration and support amongst women across the firm and provide a framework to help women at Carey Olsen build on their talents and achieve their potential. Helen is also a full TEP member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Representative matters: Acting for a Cayman Islands Listco with a market cap in excess of USD1 billion in a long-drawn shareholder dispute. Acting for shareholders of the Cayman holdco of a multimillion dollar renewable energy business in a contentious just and equitable winding up petition in the Cayman Islands Courts. Acting for a number of limited partners of a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership in an action before the Cayman Islands Courts for a winding up of the partnership on the just and equitable ground. Acting for a minority shareholder in a power plant business in winding up proceedings in the courts of the BVI, which involve multiple proceedings across different jurisdictions and consideration of the principles applied by the BVI Court when dealing with an application for a stay of a winding up application on the just and equitable ground pending arbitration proceedings. Acting for a number of major creditors in the liquidation of a major cryptocurrency hedge fund. Acting for a major cryptocurrency lender in its restructuring.

Henry Harford

Henry joined Carey Olsen as a consultant in January 2016. Henry is an experienced Cayman Islands lawyer who was previously the head of Maples and Calder's global corporate practice.

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.

Honor Desmond-Tetlow

Honor is a Counsel in Carey Olsen's Dispute Resolution and Litigation team in Bermuda. Honor advises on all areas of matrimonial, family and child law and general civil litigation, and she has significant experience acting for high net worth clients, particularly in relation to difficult and contentious divorces and custody applications.

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.

Imogen Payne

Imogen is a senior associate in the corporate and finance team in Carey Olsen’s London office. Imogen advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including banking finance, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, collective investment schemes and group reorganisations.

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.

James Noble

Based in our Tier 1 ranked (Legal 500) Singapore office, James Noble leads the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Asia and the largest, most diverse offshore litigation team in Singapore. James advises on Cayman, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Bermuda law, and is the only Cayman and BVI admitted (and Bermuda registered) litigator in Singapore. A specialist in complex and high value shareholder litigation, asset recovery, cross-border enforcement and insolvency, James has over 20 years' experience working in a wide variety of commercial, trust and estate disputes and private wealth matters. He regularly acts in high profile and market leading cases, particularly in connection with listed companies, and has specialist expertise in appellate matters in both the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. James is frequently recognised as one of the outstanding offshore litigators in Asia by market leading legal directories and publications. In particular, he is ranked consistently by Chambers Asia and is listed as a Leading Individual for the Offshore category in Singapore in The Legal 500 Asia 2023 Guide. He has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List and as one of the Top 15 Offshore Litigators in Asia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. In addition, James was recognised in the Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022 by Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) as part of the publication's prestigious annual A-List series. Earlier this year, James was named as an expert in asset recovery by Who's Who Legal in its Southeast Asia guide. James is an active contributor of thought leadership pieces, and is most recently a co-author of a textbook published by The Global Legal Post on "Commercial Litigation and Enforcement". Clients describe James as "an outstanding team leader, able to integrate a high-level awareness of his clients’ commercial objectives with an uncanny oversight of what the most junior associate, or busiest London silk, is doing to deliver the results needed for a positive outcome. Always calm in a tough and highly competitive environment." He is also noted as "a great lawyer, with a very sensible approach to litigation matters" and "whom clients respond really well to". James is a registered foreign lawyer with the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). He is a member of the Main Organising Committee of INSOL and is an active contributor to the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). He is also one of the first offshore law practitioners to be approved as a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore (IPAS).

Jarrod Farley

Jarrod is a partner in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. He advises on all corporate and commercial aspects of Cayman Islands law and regulation, with a particular emphasis on investment funds. Jarrod has considerable experience of advising on the establishment of both regulated and unregulated investment funds in the Cayman Islands and of advising investment funds and other vehicles on transactional, financing and compliance matters, including local business licensing.

Jasmin Davies

Jasmin is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution, insolvency and trusts and private wealth teams in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a broad range of complex and high-value commercial and financial services litigation, cross-border insolvencies and trusts disputes having appeared before the Courts in a number of jurisdictions. Her clients include companies (and their officers, members and creditors), insolvency practitioners, trustees as well as HNW individuals and families. Jasmin has been recognised by eprivateclient's Top 35 Under 35, Citywealth's Future Leaders list and was a finalist for STEP's Young Practitioner of the Year award. She has been invited to speak at seminars and conferences in the UK and internationally.

Jasmine Amaria

Jasmine is a partner in Carey Olsen's corporate practice, based in London. Jasmine advises on both BVI and Cayman Islands corporate law and has significant experience in investment funds and corporate and finance matters, including fund formation, fund financing, general corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements as well as group reorganisations and restructurings. She also advises investment and private equity funds on distressed situations. Jasmine regularly advises Indian companies and clients, as well as those looking to make foreign investments into India.

Jason Morgan

Jason is head of the property group in Guernsey. He advises on a wide range of residential and commercial property matters involving Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, as well as on the taking of security over real property in the Bailiwick. Jason is also a member of Carey Olsen's relocation team, which supports high net worth individuals and families who are moving to Guernsey. Prior to becoming a partner, Jason was a litigator for over 15 years and has extensive experience of conducting commercial litigation in the Guernsey and Alderney courts.

Jason Mbakwe

Jason Mbakwe is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team. He focuses his practice on contentious restructuring and insolvency matters, complex commercial litigation, regulatory and white collar crime investigations. Jason has extensive experience advising a broad range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including financial institutions, investment funds, bondholders, ad hoc committees, corporate debtors, directors and insolvency practitioners. Jason regularly advises in relation to formal insolvency procedures in the Cayman Islands; shareholder disputes; minority oppression and directors’ duties; asset recovery; the enforcement of domestic and foreign judgments; information gathering, including Norwich Pharmacal relief; various forms of injunctive relief, including freezing and receivership orders.

Jay Webster

Jay Webster is partner in the dispute resolution team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. Jay has more than 10 years’ experience advising multinational companies, partnerships, LLPs and senior executives on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. In particular, Jay has significant experience advising clients on executive dismissals; large scale global restructuring and reorganizations; organised labour disputes; business protection issues (restrictive covenants, team moves and confidentiality); data protection issues; sensitive grievance and disciplinary investigations; and providing senior management with strategic HR advice. Jay has also advised both employers and senior executives in the UK Employment Tribunal and Court of Appeal. His recent UK Employment tribunal work includes advising clients in relation to claims for: unfair dismissal; disability discrimination; race discrimination; sex discrimination; whistleblowing; unlawful deduction from wages; and breach of contract. Jay has been named as a recommended employment law practitioner in the UK Legal 500 (London Human Resources: Employer and Senior Executives) in 2017 and 2018.

Jenna Willis

Jenna is a partner in the corporate and finance group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a broad range of banking and finance transactions as well as general corporate, commercial and regulatory matters. Jenna also has expertise advising on financial restructurings including Cayman Islands schemes of arrangement. She has advised on numerous complex cross-border restructurings, insolvencies, refinancings, distressed M&A, security enforcement and high yield bond restructurings.

Jeremy Lightfoot

Jeremy is head of the litigation, dispute resolution and insolvency practice in Hong Kong. His practice is focused on high value and complex commercial and corporate litigation as well as insolvency and restructuring matters under the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Clients and industry peers compliment Jeremy as an "excellent strategist with first rate client handling skills" (Legal 500 Asia-Pacific) and he "is widely regarded for his sharp intellect and cherished by clients for his sophisticated charm" (Asian Legal Business). His success in handling significant cases and exceeding clients expectations has earned him the recognition as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 Asia-Pacific and as one of the Top 10 Offshore Litigators by the Asian Legal Business in 2023 (for the third consecutive year).

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.

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 Greenfield

John Greenfield is a consultant for the dispute resolution and litigation group of Carey Olsen in Guernsey where he was previously senior partner. John undertakes the complete range of major litigation and advocacy work including asset tracing, multi-jurisdictional disputes and commercial and trust litigation. John has been counsel in many of the major litigation cases before the Royal Court of Guernsey and the Guernsey Court of Appeal and is one of the few Guernsey advocates to have appeared as counsel in the Privy Council. He has been lead counsel in many ground-breaking trust litigation cases. John was a member of the committee which completely overhauled Guernsey's civil procedure in 2008 and is part of the new review committee. He has been the Guernsey member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel since 2001. He is a founder member of Fraudnet, a body of the world's leading fraud lawyers set up by the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPs) and is a Notary Public. John was the first elected as head of the Guernsey Bar in November 2008 and was re-elected to the role in 2010. John is listed as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal for Asset Recovery.

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.

Jonathan Marion

Jonathan is an associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation practice based in London. Jonathan assists with a broad range of civil and commercial disputes, including all aspects of offshore commercial and trust litigation with a specific focus on arbitration, enforcement and insolvency issues, including out of court administrative and regulatory disputes. He also assists the private wealth practice of Carey Olsen Bermuda and is interested in various non-contentious trust and estate planning matters. Jonathan is registered with the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) as an Affiliate Member and is undertaking the necessary courses to become a Full Member. He is also a member of the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association of Bermuda (RISA Bermuda) and the Contentious Trusts Associates (ConTrA) network.

Joni Khoo

Joni is a member of the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Hong Kong. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder/director litigation, corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing, and cross-border and restructuring matters. She also regularly advises on interim measures in support of onshore litigation, tools to obtain information about assets/directors/shareholders, and the recognition/enforcement of orders and awards.

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.

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. Karen's clients include local trust companies and retail banks, private companies, international investment banks, insurers and accountants. Karen is frequently instructed by leading law firms, both in the UK and elsewhere. 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. Karen is listed in Who's Who Legal for Commercial Litigation, Private Client and Asset Recovery.

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.

Kate Lan

Kate is counsel in Carey Olsen's litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. Her main area of practice includes commercial and shareholders’ disputes, trust and estate disputes, and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is qualified to practise in Singapore, England & Wales, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands. Kate has extensive experience advising clients across a broad spectrum of cross-border litigation and international arbitration matters. She has been appointed as arbitrator by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and is a member of SIAC’s Reserve Panel of Arbitrators. She is also the first offshore lawyer to be invited to serve on the APAC regional committee of the Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC) Council. Kate has most recently been recognised by the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific as "the powerhouse of the Carey Olsen Singapore dispute resolution team". She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List in 2023 as a result of participating in this award for the first time, with clients describing her as "sharp", "commercially savvy" and "highly responsive, with rock solid dependability and always ready to go the extra mile". In addition to her work as a disputes practitioner, Kate is part of the core team who is involved in putting together a textbook on "Commercial Litigation and Enforcement" which is published by The Global Legal Post. She is also a contributing author to two editions of Arbitration in Singapore: A Practical Guide (edited by The Honourable the Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon), and the first reference guide to investment protection in the ASEAN region – Investment Protection in Southeast Asia: A Country-by-Country Guide on Arbitration Laws and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Kate is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese and conversant in basic Bahasa Indonesia and Japanese. She is also an active member of INSOL, IWIRC, YSIAC and Arbitral Women.

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

Katie Turney

Katie is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team in the Cayman Islands. Katie is a qualified Trusts and Estate Practitioner with a strong foundation in traditional private client work. She advises HNW and UHNW individuals, trustees and executors across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious wills, trusts and estates. Katie has a particular interest in matters where dispute resolution and advisory work intersect, for example advising on the construction of testamentary documents to enable executors to properly discharge their duties or drawing on litigation experience to draft documents which help minimise the risk of claims from disappointed will or trust beneficiaries.

Katrina Lindsay

Katrina advises on a broad range of funds, corporate finance and real estate finance matters. During her three years at the Carey Olsen Jersey office, she has acted on a number of high-profile transactions, including the establishment of the largest real estate fund to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. In addition to working with global financial institutions and leading international law firms, Katrina also worked closely with local businesses, advising on various matters relating to Jersey property unit trusts, limited partnerships and protected or incorporated cell companies. Katrina relocated to the Carey Olsen BVI office in 2016 and has developed a diverse practice in advising clients from around the globe on BVI corporate, financing, security enforcement, restructuring, insolvency and regulatory matters.

Keith Robinson

Keith Robinson is a partner in the dispute resolution and trusts and private wealth practice of Carey Olsen Bermuda. With more than 20 years' experience in a wide range of commercial litigation, Keith is highly recognised by publications, peers and clients; being described as "extremely well respected globally" and someone who "knows how to handle big offshore disputes". Often engaged by clients for "significantly challenging" litigation and high value civil matters where his "wider experience and knowledge gives him a very good forensic edge", Keith's dispute resolution practice ranges from corporate and commercial disputes, arbitration, breach of contract and public law to restructuring and insolvency matters. His restructuring and insolvency expertise includes advising on a number of cross-border insolvencies, asset recovery/tracing cases and receiverships, as well as schemes of arrangement. He regularly advises liquidators and receivers, the boards of distressed entities, investors and unsecured creditors in relation to both contentious and non-contentious insolvency issues. In addition, he also has expertise in high-value trust litigation and court approved trust restructurings, often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Keith represents global businesses, trustees, beneficiaries, settlors and protectors in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious cases before the Supreme Court of Bermuda, drawing on his extensive advocacy experience. Keith has been involved in many of the major insolvency and trust cases in Bermuda in recent years and has written widely and spoken internationally on Bermuda law. Keith is ranked as a Band 1 lawyer for Dispute Resolution in Bermuda by Chambers Global 2020 and as a leading individual by The Legal 500.

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.

Kimberley Leng

Kimberley is a counsel in our Hong Kong Dispute Resolution and Insolvency team. Her practice is focused on cross-border restructuring and insolvency, as well as commercial dispute resolution, in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. She has particular experience in applications for the appointment of “soft touch” or “light touch” provisional liquidators, cross-border restructurings, and has acted for liquidators on an extensive range of matters arising out of liquidations (both compulsory and voluntary), including those requiring the recognition of foreign appointed liquidators. In addition, she has a broad range of experience in offshore commercial litigation matters. She has acted in high-value and complex commercial disputes involving, inter alia, fraud, breaches of directors’ duties, fund disputes, shareholder disputes, and minority dissent proceedings.

Konrad Friedlaender

Konrad is a consultant in the trusts and private wealth department and specialises in contentious and non-contentious trust matters, pensions, employee benefit schemes and share option schemes. He advises on the establishment and administration of complex private and corporate trust structures as well as all regulatory matters relevant to the trust and company administration sector. He has advised on the establishment and continues to be adviser to some of the largest endowments and philanthropies established on the island. Konrad also advises on the structuring and establishment of corporate vehicles and has a particular interest in non-contentious insurance matters and insurance regulation. He represents trustees, protectors and beneficiaries in various high value contentious trust matters aided by his extensive experience gained over 40 years of involvement in contentious matters.

Kyle Masters

Kyle is a partner in the firm's Bermuda office with extensive experience in regulatory and compliance law, internal and external risk mitigation, corporate governance, enforcement actions and business strategy. He has appeared as an advocate in the Bermuda Supreme Court and Court of Appeal undertaking a wide variety of commercial and civil litigation. He has particular expertise on regulatory matters including telecommunications and energy law, employment law, and general corporate disputes.

Laila Arstall

Laila has extensive experience in the formation and administration of trusts, companies and partnerships, and with dealing with issues of data protection and confidentiality. Since moving to Guernsey from Singapore, Laila has developed considerable experience in matters of taxation under Guernsey law and practice and has advised on tax issues relating to the structuring of offshore pension arrangements, employee incentive schemes, as well the use of structures for commercial purposes, including private equity and collective investment arrangements. Laila's experience includes providing advice in relation to the EU Savings Directive and its implications for trustees, financial institutions and beneficiaries; dealing with requests for information pursuant to Tax Information Exchange Agreements and advising both private client and industry representative bodies on changes to Guernsey's tax law and practice in 2012 in response to developments in the UK's treatment of QROPs. Laila has contributed on matters of tax and substance to a number of Working Parties established by industry to assist on consultation with the States of Guernsey on matters of taxation, tax compliance and substance requirements. Laila is also a member of the Statement of Practice Working Group, the CARF & CRS Working Group, the FATCA Working Group, the CRS Expert Group and the DTA Working Group established by the States of Guernsey's Revenue Service to assist with the development of guidance on matters of tax, tax compliance and substance requirements. Laila has written numerous commentaries and is a regular contributor of articles and chapters on Guernsey's tax regime for a number of publications, including for Sweet & Maxwell's European Cross-Border Estate Planning; Thomson Reuter's The European Lawyer Reference Series - Private Client Tax, Bloomberg's Global Tax Guide and the LexisNexis Guide to FATCA Compliance.

Laura Kearns

Laura Kearns TEP is a senior associate in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Laura has significant experience advising on all aspects of private client work. Laura's practice in the UK was focussed on lifetime and succession planning for individuals and families, often with an international element to their affairs. This included advising on complex trusts and estates, the preparation of Wills and mental capacity issues. Laura now provides advice to individuals, fiduciaries and companies on all aspects of trust law, including the establishment and ongoing administration of trusts and their underlying entities, the restructuring and variation of trusts and related regulatory matters.

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.

Maggie Yan

Maggie is based in Carey Olsen’s Singapore office. She specialises in corporate law and capital market regulations as well as IPO and financing projects. She advises PRC based clients with regards to investments, commercial contracts with BVI and/or Cayman entities and private equity investment transactions and IPO projects with offshore structures.

Mahogany Bean

Mahogany is an associate with Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited, working in the dispute resolution and litigation team. Mahogany has developed a broad practice within the dispute resolution and litigation department taking a key interest in government and public sector work, regulatory and general civil and commercial matters.

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.

Marcus Symonds

Marcus is an associate with Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited, working across the corporate, dispute resolution and litigation, employment, and trusts and private wealth teams.

Mark Dunster

Mark is a partner specialising in litigation, compliance and financial regulatory matters. He undertakes a wide variety of commercial and civil litigation including insolvency work. He also advises institutions on regulatory matters including anti-money laundering, data protection, employment law, eGaming and renewable energy. He is an author of books on anti-money laundering and data protection. Mark holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals "Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe" qualification as part of his data protection practice. He is the former Chairman of the Guernsey Association of Compliance Officers and of the Guernsey Bar Association, known as Bâtonnier. Mark is a current member of the States of Guernsey legislative review committee advising on the implementation and drafting of new laws and ordinances. Mark is also a tribunal member (that is judge) on various appeal tribunals including those on planning and social security legislation. He was also appointed as Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation by the Guernsey Bar.

Mark Dowds

Mark has acted in a wide range of disputes and contentious, non-contentious and pre-/potentially contentious circumstances. Mark advises on Cayman Islands law, and he was admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2021. He has represented High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth individuals and a number of global institutions, as well as a number of private equity and fund interests. He also has experience representing office-holders and major creditors in insolvency proceedings (and pre-insolvency scenarios). The significant majority of Mark's work has encompassed an international and/or cross-jurisdictional dimension.

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.

Matthew Brehaut

Matt is a partner in the corporate team in Carey Olsen’s London office. He advises on corporate and investment funds matters, with particular experience in the structuring and launch of investment funds. Matt provides funds, fund service providers and fund promoters with advice on all aspects of the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds.

Matthew Grigg

Matthew is a partner in the corporate and finance practice of Carey Olsen in Bermuda and advises on all forms of corporate and finance transaction. In his finance practice Matthew advises cross sector clients, including banks, funds, corporates, investment managers, insurance companies and investors on matters relating to lending, structured finance, fund financing, asset finance, securitisation (including ILS and CLOs), debt capital markets, securities issuances, derivatives and restructuring, together with related regulatory and collateral advice. In his corporate practice Matthew advises on matters relating to incorporation and establishment, segregated accounts companies, corporate governance, equity issuances, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, listings, corporate reorganisations, regulatory compliance and licensing advice related to financial services, investment business, digital asset business, investment funds and fund management.

Matthew Watson

Matthew is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution and Litigation practice in the Hong Kong office. His practice is focused on acting for high-net-worth clients and major corporations in insolvency and restructuring contexts, as well as high value and complex commercial, corporate, trust and estate litigation under the law of Bermuda. Matthew is highly recommended by peers and clients and is ranked in leading legal directories Chambers and the Legal 500, where he has been described as, "an absolute delight to work with: incredibly hard-working, excellent commercial brain, superb attention to detail and a first-rate lawyer." Other client testimonials praise his "superb tactical litigation skill" and "unwavering dedication to excellence and total commitment to the case". Matthew is also one of the leading private client professionals ranked in the Global Private Client Elite.

Max Tetlow

Max advises on all aspects of Bermuda commercial and corporate law with notable experience in raising capital, investment fund structures, joint ventures, M&A and debt finance. Max has provided advice to private, listed and overseas entities (including companies, LLCs, partnerships and trusts) on matters including entity formation, restructuring, capital markets, asset and share acquisitions, corporate governance, licensing and regulatory advice as well as assisting with the orderly distribution of capital and winding up of entities. Max is ranked as a 'notable practitioner' by IFLR1000.

Michael Hanson

Michael Hanson partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team of Carey Olsen Bermuda. His core practice is centred on human capital and regulatory law where he advises the largest insurance and reinsurance, banks and professional services businesses on the island. Michael has particular and significant expertise in multijurisdictional crisis management, corporate, employment and regulatory investigations, complex executive disputes and executive benefit and incentive programs. Michael also has a more general practice advising clients on commercial contract claims, reinsurance and coverage disputes and shareholder disputes. Michael is ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global and Legal 500 describing him as "highly rated", "very knowledgeable" and that "his responsiveness is unbelievable!".

Michael Padarin

Michael's practice concentrates on the formation, operation and restructuring of offshore private investment funds, across the alternatives spectrum including private equity, venture, credit and secondaries funds, and their related fund sponsor vehicles. He specialises in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda law. Michael is highly regarded for his breadth of experience advising across the spectrum from emerging managers to the most sophisticated global institutional players. Michael also represents early and later stage companies in a range of industries, including fintech, blockchain, life sciences and technology, in relation to private financings, listings, cross-border investments and other M&A transactions. He is regularly instructed by leading international firms as specialist Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands counsel on complex corporate transactions. Michael lived and worked in the Cayman Islands before returning to Hong Kong and has a wealth of experience dealing with inbound and outbound China deals. During his time in the Cayman Islands Michael acted for some of North America's largest private equity houses on both fund formation and downstream transactional work. He is one of the most experienced offshore private equity specialists in the Hong Kong market.

Michael Frith

Michael Frith is Senior Counsel at Carey Olsen Bermuda, and Managing Director of the corporate services business. His legal practice focuses on all aspects of Bermuda corporate law, including all types of Bermuda corporate structures, equity and debt financings (public and private), IPOs. Michael has particular experience advising on the formation and ongoing regulatory and transactional requirements of all types of Bermuda corporate and insurance structures, Michael also has particular expertise in relation to Bermuda’s economic substance requirements, and has been a key advisor to the Bermuda Registrar of Companies and Ministry of Finance in relation the development and implementation of Bermuda’s economic substance legislation and related guidance.

Michelle Falcucci

Michelle is a partner at Carey Olsen Bermuda and advises on all aspects of Bermuda commercial and corporate law and has considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and equity and debt financing. In addition, Michelle regularly advises on investment fund matters.

Michelle Meyer

As an associate within the corporate team of Carey Olsen Bermuda, Michelle advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and commercial law. Michelle has notable and varied commercial transactional experience having worked with JSE listed companies, multinational banks, and some of the world's largest providers of financial markets data.

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).

Natasha Kapp

Natasha Kapp is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth group in Guernsey. Natasha deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious trust matters. She advises professional trustees, family offices and ultra high net worth families and individuals on the establishment, administration and restructuring of complex trusts and foundations and underlying structures. She has acted on the establishment of and continues to advise some of the largest family offices and philanthropies established on the Island. Natasha also advises on insurance regulation. She regularly appears before the Royal Court of Guernsey in trust administration proceedings including applications regarding the interpretation of trust powers, the variation of trusts, the doctrine of mistake, the application of the Rule In Hastings Bass, Beddoe applications, rectification and the blessing of momentous decisions. Natasha is a regular contributor to law and industry journals and is the author of the Guernsey chapters in Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions and Private Foundations - A World Review. She is ranked as a leading individual for Private Client, Trusts and Tax, in Guernsey in the Legal 500 and is also ranked in the Chambers UK, Global and HNW Guides. Natasha is also 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.

Nessa Flynn

Nessa is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters as well as advising investment funds on transactional, financing and compliance matters. Nessa is also part of Carey Olsen's fintech and digital assets practice.

Nicholas Lee

Nicholas is an associate in Carey Olsen’s dispute resolution team in Singapore. His primary areas of practice include commercial litigation and insolvency, specialising in shareholder disputes and company law related matters. He has extensive experience across a variety of multi-jurisdictional disputes, and has advised liquidators on creditor claims, security issues and trust law.

Nick Bullmore

Nick is Managing Partner of Carey Olsen’s Cayman Islands office. He advises on all aspects of Cayman Islands corporate law with a particular emphasis on investment funds (including fund financings), structured finance (including CLOs), joint ventures and general corporate and commercial matters. He also advises family offices and UHNWIs on the structuring, governance and regulation of family offices and private investment structures, as well as providing advice on the practical and legal aspects of physically relocating UHNWIs and their families to the Cayman Islands.

Nicola Hopkins

Nicola works in Guernsey as part of the property team, advising on family law and private client matters. 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.

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.

Nigel Smith

Nigel is counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation team in Carey Olsen's Cayman Island office. Nigel has a range of experience in all general litigation matters, primarily in the financial services sector. He acts in general commercial matters, including inter-party disputes and disputes between shareholders and directors of a company, and routinely acts in insolvency matters for liquidators, receivers, creditors and other interested parties. Almost all of his work involves the resolution of cross-jurisdictional issues. He has extensive experience in valuation matters in particular, including acting in a number of proceedings to determine the fair value of shares in multi-billion dollar companies, following shareholders dissenting in take-private transactions for those companies. Additionally, Nigel regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious employment matters.

Nina Clift

Nina is a senior associate within the trusts and private wealth group and advises high net worth clients and trustees with regard to the establishment and administration of offshore trusts. Nina deals with all aspects of fiduciary law and provides advice on contentious and non-contentious trust and probate matters. She also prepares wills and advises on wealth planning and estate administration for local and international clients.

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).

Oliver MacKay

Oliver is counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Oliver has advised clients for ten years on the resolution of complex and high-value disputes and specialises in contentious trusts, (re)insurance and regulatory matters, including sanctions. He has advised on, and appeared in, significant disputes in the Supreme Court of Bermuda and the Court of Appeal for Bermuda. Oliver's practice also covers commercial and civil litigation, arbitration, and restructuring and insolvency. Oliver advises and acts for corporate clients, financial institutions, trustees, private individuals and families in Bermuda and internationally. He also has extensive experience advising and acting for insurers and reinsurers in the Lloyd's of London and international company markets including in litigation, arbitration and subrogated recovery claims. Oliver specialises in treaty and facultative reinsurance, policy drafting and interpretation and insurance regulation. He has experience of commercial disputes in Bermuda, England and various international jurisdictions across Europe, the US, the Middle East and South America.

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.

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.

Rachel Jones

Rachel is a senior associate in the property team specialising in planning law. She advises public and private sector clients on (often complex) contentious and non-contentious planning matters. Her practice encompasses assisting clients with complex planning applications and appeals, judicial review proceedings, development plan inquiries, enforcement matters and planning agreements. Rachel also advises both landlords and tenants on a wide range of commercial property matters including the leasing of commercial property, dilapidations and also advising on property aspects of corporate transactions (many multi-jurisdictional).

Rachel Yao

Rachel is counsel in Carey Olsen's Singapore office and leads the firm's trusts and private wealth practice in Asia. She is the only native Chinese Mandarin speaking trusts and private wealth lawyer based in Singapore who specialises in offshore law. Rachel has particular experience advising high net worth individuals and ultra-high net worth individuals from the Asia-Pacific region, many of whom are ranked on the Forbes World's Billionaires List and the Hurun China Rich List (which ranks China's wealthiest people with a minimum net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$690m)), with their family wealth preservation, global asset allocation and the establishment and restructuring of a wide range of trust structures. She also regularly advises and acts for professional trustees, single family offices and multi-family offices, wealth management companies, and private banks. In addition to her specialisation in trusts and private wealth matters, Rachel also has a broad range of experience in corporate and commercial transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign direct investment-related general corporate law. She advises international companies from a wide range of industries on their legal matters and business transactions worldwide.

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.

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.

Rebecca Lee

Rebecca is counsel in Carey Olsen's corporate practice in Singapore. She advises on asset finance, structured finance, equity capital markets (including SPACs), fund finance, general banking, as well as general corporate. She has a particular focus on the aviation industry and has published as co-author on aviation law as well as aviation finance and leasing. Rebecca has a proven track record of executing complex and high-profile transactions for clients ranging from corporates, financial institutions and sovereign wealth funds through to private equity funds, holding companies and family offices with significant asset finance experience. Clients praise Rebecca for being "outstanding" and "extremely responsive" on transactions. They also commend Rebecca's top performance in terms of "… legal input, co-ordination skills, diligence and commitment". Above all, clients have echoed sentiments of enjoying working together with Rebecca in view of the often seamless and tireless support she provides on each file, no matter the size and complexity.

Richard Brown

Richard is a partner practising BVI law from Carey Olsen’s London office. Richard's practise encompasses all aspects of BVI commercial disputes, but with a focus on insolvency, fraud and asset recovery, shareholder disputes and contentious trust matters. Richard is also able to advise clients facing investigations by the BVI's International Tax Authority and other contentious regulatory matters. Richard has particular experience of cases which raise complex jurisdictional issues and where proceedings are on foot in several jurisdictions. He regularly obtains interlocutory relief such as freezing injunctions, and also assists clients in resisting and overturning such orders. Richard's location in London enables him to advise clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from a convenient time zone, and he works closely with the BVI-based litigation team to provide a seamless service to clients. Richard has a track record of successfully representing clients before the BVI Commercial Court and the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, and where appropriate negotiating favourable settlements to avoid litigation.

Richard Munden

Richard is partner in the corporate department and advises on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions with particular expertise in aviation finance and other asset finance matters including asset-backed securitisations. He also specialises in financing for hedge funds and private equity funds, debt capital market transactions, equity issues and joint venture and shareholder arrangements across a wide range of industries.

Richard Sykes

Richard is partner in our corporate practice in the Cayman Islands. Richard advises on Cayman real estate, development and all aspects of local leasing and licensing. Richard's practice focuses on complex real estate transactions and structuring. In addition Richard has significant experience in hospitality and infrastructure. Since arriving in Cayman in 2008, Richard has been involved in almost every major hotel acquisition as well as guiding the development of Camana Bay, Cayman's only mixed use community. Richard has significant experience in public sector projects and is the lead legal advisor in Cayman's first Public Private Partnership established to modernise the Islands' solid waste infrastructure. Richard also has hotel and commercial development experience in a number of other Caribbean jurisdictions. Richard is a CIMA approved director and sits on the executive committees of several strata corporations.

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 is one of the leading non-contentious trusts practitioners in Jersey, and heads Walkers' Jersey Private Capital & Trusts Group.He focuses on private client structuring and advice, and is an expert in Jersey foundation structures.Robert is a Jersey Advocate who has spent more than a decade specialising in offshore private client work.He is recognised for the quality of his client service and advice by both Chambers UK and Legal 500, and he regularly contributes to a number of prestigious international publications dealing with offshore trusts, foundations and succession matters.Robert provides advice and drafting in relation to Jersey trusts and foundations, mainly on non-contentious private wealth matters but he also assists his colleagues on corporate and contentious matters.His clients typically comprise Jersey-based trustees but also include law firms, accountancy practices, settlors and beneficiaries from around the world, particularly London, Switzerland and the Middle East.

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.

Russell Clark

Russell Clark heads up the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. He advises on both contentious and non-contentious trust and private wealth matters. He also advises private clients on succession, estate planning and family governance. Russell was elected as a member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL) and is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), having previously been Chairman of the STEP Guernsey Branch Technical Committee and a Branch Committee member for 18 years. Russell is listed as a Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal for Private Client. Russell is also a Notary Public and advises on Guernsey, Alderney and Sark law. Russell is the only Guernsey lawyer to be ranked in the 'Hall of Fame' in the Legal 500 UK and is a Band One practitioner for Guernsey in Chambers HNW Guide in their latest editions. He is also 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.

Ryan Chong

Ryan is an associate in the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Carey Olsen's Singapore office. Ryan has advised and represented clients from a broad range of sectors, including construction, banking, energy, insurance, and trade finance. He is experienced with complex cross-border proceedings, insolvency and corporate restructuring related matters, as well as general commercial and appellate litigation.

Sam Dawson

Sam is head of Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and insolvency and restructuring practice in the Cayman Islands. He has extensive experience litigating with a primary focus on the financial services sector. Sam also has particular expertise in the field of insolvency and restructuring and is regularly instructed to act for liquidators and receivers (including foreign appointees), management, security holders, investors, and unsecured creditors in relation to both contentious and non-contentious matters. Sam is ranked consistently by the independent legal directories and is quoted as being "an accomplished litigator" who is "responsive, proactive and gives good advice". Sam is also noted for being a "really good operator in Cayman, he knows the jurisdiction" (Chambers Global and Who's Who Legal).

Sam Stevens

Sam specialises in the resolution of complex corporate and commercial disputes, frequently with a cross-border element. He has significant experience handling a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration matters, with a particular emphasis on shareholder disputes, civil fraud and restructuring/insolvency cases. He has had conduct of disputes in a broad spectrum of industry sectors, including banking, investment funds, insurance, energy, real estate, logistics, construction and media. Sam has particular experience in the field of international arbitration, and has acted for commercial parties in arbitrations seated in London, Paris, Dubai, Singapore and Kuwait under the auspices of most of the world’s major arbitral institutions.

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.

Sarah-Jane Hall

Sarah-Jane is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's Trusts and Private Wealth team. She advises individuals, trustees and family offices on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters in the private wealth context. Recent notable work includes: Advising the trustees in multi-jurisdictional proceedings concerning the validity of a transfer of assets to a trust Establishing a business succession planning structure for UHNW entrepreneurial clients to hold their high-profile international business Acting for the beneficiaries of a complex multi-trust structure in a dispute concerning the construction of the trust deeds Restructuring a complicated family trust structure and private investment vehicle Acting for the trustees in an application for the blessing of a momentous decision

Shane Westin

Shane is counsel in Carey Olsen's corporate, commercial and property law groups in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of corporate, commercial and property law.

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.

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.

Simon Hall

Simon Hall is a Partner in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation practice in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Simon moved to the BVI in 2015 and has significant BVI litigation experience. His caseload has primarily involved shareholder / director disputes, fraud and asset tracing, contentious trust and probate, and insolvency work. This has also included a wide array of interlocutory work including applications for freezing orders, prohibitory injunctions and the appointment of receivers. Simon has conducted litigation before the BVI Commercial Court, ECSC Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. He has acted for a wide range of clients including large financial institutions, high net worth individuals, insolvency practitioners and professional trustees. Simon also has considerable advocacy experience and regularly appears as lead and junior counsel before the BVI Commercial Court and ECSC Court of Appeal. He has conducted numerous trials in the BVI as well as interlocutory hearings (on and without notice), and interlocutory and final appeals. His recent cases include: Conducting a four week trial on behalf of two defendants to a derivative claim alleging breach of directors’ duties, dishonest assistance, conspiracy and unjust enrichment; Acting for a BVI shareholder in relation to unfair prejudice proceedings to prevent the compulsory redemption of a BVI minority shareholders' shares at an unfair price, including obtaining an interim injunction preventing the redemption; Conducting unfair prejudice proceedings on behalf of two defendant shareholders which proceeded to a three week trial in the BVI, a three day appeal before the Court of Appeal and which is now before the Privy Council; Acting for the defendant BVI company to a claim for rectification of the share register in circumstances where there were allegations of fraud; Conducting and advising on various sets of proceedings on behalf of a BVI shareholder, including as claimant on an application for the winding of a BVI company on just and equitable grounds, and advising as the funding creditor of litigation being conducted by appointed liquidator.

Stephanie Bernard

Stephanie Bernard TEP is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. Stephanie has extensive and in-depth experience advising individuals, fiduciaries and companies on all aspects of trust law including international and local estate planning arrangements, wealth management structures, variation of trusts and private trust companies, as well as international and local pensions. Stephanie also advises on regulatory issues impacting on trustees and pension plans. Since 2017 Stephanie has been recognised in the Legal 500 Caribbean directory.

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.

Steven Rees Davies

Steven's practice covers a broad spectrum of corporate and commercial law with specific depth and experience in corporate governance, finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and restructuring. A recognised specialist in the fintech and digital asset sector, Steven worked with the Bermuda government in the introduction and development of its digital asset legal and regulatory regime, and represents a significant number of digital asset companies headquartered, or with operations, in Bermuda. He also has particular expertise in the wider technology, telecommunications and energy sectors.

Sukhvinder Chana

Sukhvinder is a senior associate in the corporate and finance group. Sukhvinder advises on a broad range of finance and corporate matters in Guernsey with a focus on real estate finance, acquisition finance and structured finance. On the corporate side, Sukhvinder advises on acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructurings, amalgamations and migrations as well as advising on the regulatory laws underpinning these transactions. Sukhvinder also advises on local law financings acting as lead Guernsey counsel and regularly advises foreign banks on the Guernsey regulatory regime applicable to the promotion of goods and services in Guernsey.

Susan McKinstray

Susan is counsel in Carey Olsen's corporate practice in Singapore. She has 10 years' experience as an offshore lawyer and advises on a wide range of banking and finance, corporate, commercial and investment fund matters in multiple jurisdictions including British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands and Jersey. Susan has significant experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, listings / IPOs, reorganisations, start-ups and technical and regulatory matters (in particular company law, investment business, banking and other financial services regulation). Susan relocated from Carey Olsen’s Jersey office to Singapore in 2018 and is uniquely placed to provide advice to clients in Asia on structuring, formation, launch and maintenance of funds in these jurisdictions across a broad range of asset classes, in addition to advising on downstream M&A and preference share financings. She has particular experience working with Asia based fund managers using Jersey fund structures and is one of the only lawyers in Singapore who provides Jersey corporate, funds, and financing advice. Susan also regularly acts for PRC clients and law firms to assist on their corporate, funds and capital markets transactions and has acted on a number of high profile transactions that have been recognised by leading legal publication such as the China Business Law Journal's (CBLJ) prestigious "deals of the year".

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.

Tiffy Wan

Tiffy is a cousel in Carey Olsen's corporate, M&A and finance team in Hong Kong where she advises our Asia and PRC-based clients on a wide variety of offshore corporate transactional matters. Tiffy’s legal practice focuses on commercial and corporate finance transactions, including Hong Kong and US-based initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary securities offerings, restructurings (including schemes of arrangement), mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments, fund-raising and fund finance transactions for both public and private companies, and other general corporate instructions. Tiffy has acted for a broad range of corporations and financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region with particular experience in acting for China-based issuers and strategic acquirers.

Tim Baildam

Tim is counsel in Carey Olsen's Dispute Resolution and Insolvency team in London. He advises on all aspects of commercial, insolvency, and financial services litigation, including fraud claims, asset tracing, and shareholder disputes, as well as general contract and tort claims. Tim’s experience has included a wide range of interlocutory work, including in relation to applications for freezing orders, prohibitory injunctions, disclosure orders, and the appointment of receivers. Tim also frequently acts for liquidators and Court-appointed officeholders, and regularly advises stakeholders on both contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency mandates. Tim advises on Cayman Islands and BVI law, and has a broad range of legal experience in the offshore and financial services industries.

Tim Corfield

Tim is an Advocate and a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team. He has twenty-five years' experience in trial and litigation advisory work, representing clients in high value, high-stakes and reputationally significant cases, many involving multiple jurisdictions working alongside other international law firms. His practice spans the breadth of corporate and company law disputes, contentious corporate transactional matters, banking and financial services litigation, funds disputes, shareholder disputes and derivative and unfair prejudice claims, as well as trusts disputes and general commercial litigation. He also has significant experience in the fields of corporate insolvency, acting in various claims arising from the collapses of Enron, Madoff, Stanford and Lehman Brothers. He often represents boards of directors and other fiduciaries, such as trustees, in all manner of crises, often in contentious and regulatory matters as part of his board advisory practice, assisting on commercially and financially sensitive or complex transactions and investigations, breach of duty and breach of trust claims. Tim has also devoted time to various pro bono activities, including in cases dealing with: opposition to the death penalty – successfully as amicus curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Carman L. Deck v. State of Missouri No. 04-5293, Citation 544 U.S. 622, viz. the constitutionality of shackling a prisoner during the sentencing phase of a trial (Deck was finally executed in May 2022); racism and discrimination; and representing the family of Baby Jack at the inquest into his death at Princess Elizabeth Hospital in January 2014.

Tim Wright

Tim is a partner in Carey Olsen's British Virgin Islands (BVI) Dispute Resolution and Litigation team, practising BVI law from Carey Olsen’s London office. Tim has over 15 years' onshore and offshore experience of high profile and complex cross-border litigation and insolvency work and has recently relocated to London after living and working in the BVI for eight years. Tim is qualified as a Solicitor and Barrister and regularly appears in Court. He is a highly experienced offshore litigator, working on all elements of shareholder and company disputes, cross-border fraud and asset tracing, injunctions, trusts, insolvency and restructuring. Tim's cases are often complex multi-jurisdictional disputes which involve working with professional advisors in other countries and time zones. Tim is well versed in new litigation trends such as cryptocurrency and digital asset disputes, and cases involving economic sanctions. Tim is a business minded and pragmatic litigator who takes the time to understand his clients' needs and objectives. He recognises that legal disputes can be stressful and destructive for businesses. He aims to find the best outcome for his clients, whether in court or by commercial settlement.

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 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).

Tim Haynes

Tim has joined Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team in Hong Kong. Tim has over twenty years’ experience representing a wide range of Asia Pacific-based clients in all aspects of commercial dispute resolution, from corporate shareholders and liquidators to high-net-worth individuals. He advises on and litigates high value, cross-border management, shareholder, commercial, insolvency and corporate restructuring disputes, often with a connection to Hong Kong, under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. He is particularly skilled at handling high-stakes management and shareholder disputes and other contentious matters arising out of distressed corporate and investment vehicles. In addition to being a Chartered Arbitrator, Tim is an experienced advocate who has appeared in numerous cases before first instance and appellate courts and in arbitration.

Tom Carey

Tom is a partner is the corporate and finance team. He advises clients both locally and internationally on a wide variety of corporate transactions including private equity, investment funds and restructurings. Tom acts for asset managers, banks and fund promoters on the structuring and establishment of closed-ended and open-ended collective investment schemes. He also advises on corporate transactions including insolvency and restructuring as well as banking and real estate finance. He specialises in permanent capital vehicles, CISE, AIM and Main Market listings as well as all aspects of private equity. Tom was listed in the ‘International Who’s Who of Funds Lawyers’ 2014.

Tom Katsaros

Tom is principal - head of funds, Singapore specialising in the establishment, structuring and maintenance of offshore private equity funds and hedge funds. He is one of the only two partner-level offshore funds practitioners in Singapore to be admitted in the Cayman Islands. In addition to acting for large financial institutions and investment funds sponsors, boutique and start-up investment managers, Tom also advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and financing transactions. Tom is recognised as a Leading Individual in The Legal 500 Asia 2023 Guide and as a global leader in the 2022 and 2023 editions of Who's Who Legal: Private Funds.

Tracey Powell

Tracey is a senior associate in the corporate team based in London. Tracey advises on a broad range of corporate, banking and finance, funds and regulatory matters, with particular focus on the establishment, regulation and management of investment funds, including advising on fund financing.

Trevor McCabe

Trevor is a partner in the corporate group in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. Trevor is experienced in general corporate and corporate finance work, including international equity offerings, IPOs, joint ventures, private equity work and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Tristan Maultby

Tristan Maultby is a Group Partner in Walkers' Jersey office. Tristan joined Walkers in 2019 and is a member of the Global Finance and Corporate Groups.Tristan has worked offshore since 2013, and advises global financial institutions, corporates, trustees and other entities on the Jersey aspects of international corporate, banking and finance transactions.Tristan has particular experience of advising on the establishment of investment holding structures in Jersey and of advising lenders providing finance to such investment holding structures.He also has experience in non-contentious restructuring matters.

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.

Vaishali Gupta

Vaishali specialises in banking and finance transactions. Her recent experience includes advising various corporate and financial institutions on structured finance and fund related finance transactions, as well as financial restructurings.

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.

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 Cure

Victoria is an associate in Carey Olsen's Family Law and Divorce team, part of the Dispute Resolution and Litigation practice. Victoria moved to Jersey in September 2019, where she lived and worked until February 2023, when she moved to the firm's London office. Victoria assists with a range of relationship generated issues, including complex financial disputes, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and contested proceedings relating to children (including applications for contact, residence, leave to remove, prohibited steps orders and abduction). Victoria is a member of Resolution, an association of family law professionals who are committed to work with families and individuals to resolve issues and disputes in a constructive and non-confrontational way and an Associate Member of the Jersey Family Law Association.

Wei Xun Toh

Wei Xun is based in Carey Olsen's Singapore office, specialising in the establishment, structuring, maintenance and financing of offshore funds across a wide range of asset classes and strategies. In addition, he also advises on general corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions as well as regulatory and compliance matters.

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).

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.

Winnie Lo

Winnie is a senior associate in our dispute resolution and insolvency team, and is based in Hong Kong. Her practice focuses on cross-border restructuring and insolvency, as well as commercial dispute resolution. She has acted for insolvency practitioners, commercial banking institutions, directors and shareholders. She also has experience advising on a wide range of high-value and complex commercial disputes including fraud, breaches of directors’ duties and shareholder disputes.

Xia Li

Xia is counsel in our Dispute Resolution and Litigation practice. Xia specialises in complex corporate and commercial litigation, shareholders' disputes, fraud and investigatory matters and insolvency and restructuring matters in jurisdictions including the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. Xia is experienced in advising clients on regulatory compliance and corporate governance issues. She has extensive experience handling high value dispute resolution matters for clients across the region, spanning a broad range of sectors, including banking and financial services, gaming and entertainment, construction and insurance. Xia is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and is proficient in Dutch and French. From 2018 to 2020, Xia worked in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, gaining significant experience on a variety of litigation, arbitration, restructuring and trusts matters. Recent experience includes advising: A Hong Kong listed company on the appointment of 'soft touch' provisional liquidators in a contested matter, together with the promotion of a subsequent restructuring plan Various liquidations of Hong Kong listed companies incorporated in Bermuda, with experience representing liquidators/provisional liquidators and creditors A UK listed company for its successful onshoring from the Cayman Islands to the UK, implemented by way of a Cayman Islands scheme of arrangement and associated capital reduction Parallel funds in relation to seeking directions from the Cayman Islands courts regarding the distribution of assets A trust on its trust administration and disclosure proceedings in the Cayman Islands A fund in insolvency in its Privy Council proceedings in relation to the appeal of a Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision on the commencement of related New York proceedings A fund on its Cayman Islands seated arbitration using AAA Rules on a professional negligence matter A major Chinese alternative asset management firm on a Cayman Islands expert opinion for CIETAC arbitration proceedings A major PRC manufacturing group on BVI Court litigation and Hong Kong arbitration strategy and legal advice

Yan Chng

Yan Chng is a senior associate in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has experience advising and acting for listed corporations, individuals, directors, shareholders and liquidators in complex commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings, involving breach of fiduciary duties, misappropriation, conspiracy, trust disputes, minority oppression and unfair preference claims.

Yi Yang

Yi has a wide range of experience assisting in cross-border commercial litigation, including shareholder disputes, derivative actions, contentious insolvency and appraisal actions involving offshore companies.

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