Collas Crill

Amy Davies

Amy is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey. Her practice encompasses a range of work, including regulatory, financial services disputes and criminal. Amy has experience in assisting in the investigation of internal Suspicious Activity Reports before deciding whether to externalise the suspicion, as well as the interpretation of legal orders and collation of all the captured documentation. She has been involved in undertaking the prosecution of complex fraud matters, including the charging decision, preparation of court papers and Advocacy.

Ben Newton

Ben is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team.  He has advised on a number of cases in Guernsey, as well as cross-jurisdictional matters, involving our areas of expertise including: contentious risk and regulatory matters; contentious trusts; insolvency and restructuring; debt enforcement; and corporate, director and shareholder disputes. Ben previously gained experience at the firm as a paralegal and trainee solicitor where he completed seats in the firm's Corporate, Finance and Funds, International Private Client and Trusts and UK Property teams, as well as the Dispute Resolution team.

David Moore

David is a Consultant. He has more than 30 years' experience in corporate law, having practiced for over 20 years in Guernsey and ten years in London prior to that. He specialises in corporate finance, insurance, offshore funds, trusts and regulatory issues and is highly regarded as one of Guernsey's leading corporate lawyers. He is also a non-executive director of a number of investment and insurance companies, both listed and unlisted.

David Jeffery

David is a Senior Associate in our Guernsey Dispute Resolution Team, with over 15 years' experience of general litigation, with a particular focus on contentious wills and estates, as well as high value personal injury and complex medical negligence actions. David advises on all aspects of contentious wills and estates matters, including claims for financial provision under the Inheritance (Guernsey) Law, 2011, challenges to the validity of a Will on the grounds of undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval, and also contested executorship applications. His personal injury and medical negligence practice sees him accept instructions from both Plaintiffs and Defendants, and has represented some of the largest insurers in the UK. He has a particular focus on high-value RTAs, complex brain injury and birth defect/traumatic birth cases. David is also admitted as solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the territory of the Virgin Islands, where he has been heavily involved in providing assistance to our BVI Dispute Resolution Team in a number of significant medical negligence cases being litigated in the BVI High Court

David O"Hanlon

David is a Partner in the Guernsey dispute resolution team at Collas Crill. He has a broad experience of commercial litigation and professional negligence matters, often with cross-border or jurisdictional issues.  His primary areas of focus are: Trust Matters David has acted for trustees, investment banks and beneficiaries in contentious or semi-contentious matters, such as defending trustees against claims for breach of trust, acting in relation to variations of trust and advising trustees and beneficiaries on their obligations and rights in respect of the trusts.  Recent public matters include: Walker et al –v- Egerton-Vernon et al in which David acted for one of the former trustees of a settlement established by the late entrepreneur Jack Walker in defending a claim in excess of £100 million (and settled on confidential terms). Corporate Disputes David advises directors, shareholders and corporate service providers on contentious corporate matters such as shareholder or board disputes, claims against directors and advice on issues such as potential conflicts of interest.  Recent work includes acting for the Independent Directors in Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in liquidation) and ors –v- Conway Jr and ors in their successful defence of a claim for in excess of $1 billion brought by the liquidators of Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in liquidation).

Elizabeth Couch

Elizabeth is a Guernsey Advocate and joined Collas Crill in January 2021 as Family Law Partner in the International Private Client and Trusts Team. Elizabeth is a highly regarded family law practitioner in Guernsey. She specialises in all areas of family law and has extensive experience in all matters relating to family breakdown, divorce and cohabitation. She has a particular focus in advising HNW clients in complex ancillary relief matters and private law children cases, which can involve cross jurisdictional issues. Her clients include husbands and wives, cohabitants and children.

Emma Taylor

Emma is an Advocate and Senior Associate in our Guernsey Dispute Resolution team. Emma advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on contentious and semi-contentious trust matters. She regularly advises corporate trustees and beneficiaries alike on the full spectrum of trust disputes from breach of trust claims to information requests. In addition to trust matters, Emma regularly assists clients in respect of commercial disputes and contentious risk and regulatory matters, including enforcement action. Emma also has considerable experience acting for Insured parties.

Jazzmin Le Prevost

Jazz is an Associate sitting across the International Private Client and Trusts (within the matrimonial team in the Family Law practice) and Dispute Resolution teams in Guernsey. Jazz has experience in most general litigation matters, having joined the Dispute Resolution team in 2015. In March 2021 she took up her additional position in the Matrimonial team within the Family Law practice and is now involved in various aspects of matrimonial and children law.

Jessica Burgess

Jessica is an Associate in the International Private Client and Trusts team in Guernsey.

Laura Smeith

Laura is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team.

Marco Nel

Associate

Nin Ritchie

Group Partner

Quentin Bregg

Quentin is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution Department.  Quentin specialises in complex commercial litigation with a focus on financial services, insolvency and regulatory disputes.  Whilst on secondment working in-house in the litigation team of a large global bank, he dealt with a variety of commercial disputes.  He regularly advises clients on a variety of commercial disputes, including those involving contracts, debt recovery, insolvency and professional negligence. He has a particular interest in cross-border litigation and freezing orders.

Sarah Millar

Sarah is an Advocate and Senior Associate within the family law practice in the International Private Client and Trusts team. She joined Collas Crill in October 2021. Sarah is an experienced family law practitioner whose work encompasses all aspects of family separation. She has a particular interest in matters involving children, having worked for a number of years in child protection matters in the public sector. Sarah also conducts general civil litigation matters, ranging from employment to property disputes, and is experienced in running litigation from its inception to final hearing.

Steve Moore

Steve is an Associate in the Corporate, Finance and Funds team in Guernsey where he is building a broad practice in corporate advisory, acquisitions, collective investment schemes, payment services regulations and financial services regulation. He has experience and a specific interest in cryptoassets and FinTech applications, particularly with the tokenisation of real-world assets, investment schemes offered to retail consumers and the use of cryptoassets in collective investment vehicles.

Thomas Cutts-Watson

Tom is an Senior associate in the Guernsey office's dispute resolution team. He regularly assists with the large financial services-based litigation and trust disputes for which the firm is well known. His practice extends beyond these matters, though, touching on a range of contentious and non-contentious areas for clients in Guernsey and abroad. Tom has recently advised on a host of debt recovery matters, property disputes and nuisance claims and has hands-on experience of the full range of resolution options available to clients – from early mediation to trial. Tom's non-contentious work includes employment and local housing licence advice (to both employers and employees) as well as licensing advice to individual landlords and the hospitality industry in the Bailiwick.