Collas Crill

Insolvency and Corporate Disputes

Gareth is a litigation lawyer who specialises in trust, company (including directors' duties), insolvency, professional negligence and other financial services disputes. He also has an active practice in semi-contentious trust matters.

A qualified Guernsey Advocate, Gareth is the firm's Guernsey Managing Partner and leads its Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team on the island.

Gareth has been involved in a number of trials in the Royal Court of Guernsey and several appeals to the Court of Appeal and Privy Council.  He acted for the successful non-executive director defendants in the long running, multi-billion dollar Carlyle litigation that eventually concluded in 2020.  He also recently acted for the Registrar of the Chambre de Discipline (the disciplinary body for Advocates) on the first ever appeal of a disciplinary matter to the Court of Appeal, where he was successful

Trained Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, London; qualified 2001; assistant in Reynolds Porter Chamberlain insurance/reinsurance litigation department 2001-05; Collas Crill LLP dispute resolution department 2005 to date; called to the Guernsey Bar 2008; partner since 2010.

Chancery Bar Association; Guernsey International Lawyers Association; ACTAPS; and INSOL.

Pates Grammar School, Cheltenham; University of Liverpool (LLB 2:1); College of Law, Chester (LPC Distinction); University of Caen (Certificat d’études Juridique Français et Normandes).

Family, running, triathlon and windsurfing.