Dispute Resolution and Litigation; Trusts and Private Wealth; Regulatory; Investment Funds

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.

Karen was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1995 and qualified as a Solicitor of England and Wales in January 1999. Karen joined Carey Olsen in March 2002 having previously practised at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, a leading London firm. She was called as an advocate of the Guernsey Bar in July 2003. Karen was made a partner in 2005.

In January 2019 Karen was appointed as global general counsel to the firm.

French.

Chancery Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Experts and the Institute of Directors.

Kingston University (1994 LLB Hons); Inns of Court School of Law (1995); Université de Caen (2002 Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Françaises et Normandes).