Collas Crill

Corporate and commercial, private client and trusts and banking and finance.

Victoria is a Jersey advocate and founder partner with over 15 years' offshore experience advising on corporate and trust structures, including the associated finance and security work. Her clients range from high profile listed funds to sovereign wealth funds and ultra high net worth individuals and families. She is regularly instructed by leading international law and accountancy firms to provide Jersey corporate, finance and trust law advice. In addition to her broad corporate and trust practice, Victoria has particular expertise in the use of Jersey structures for holding UK commercial and residential property having acted for several sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity firms establishing or acquiring interests in UK real estate using Jersey entities.

Victoria has been recommended by Legal 500 annually since 2015 in the categories of corporate and commercial, private client trust and tax and banking and finance, being described as an “exceptional practitioner”, "commercial, pragmatic and technically strong", “enthusiastic, accurate and thorough” and “always a pleasure to work with”. She is also described as going "above and beyond in order to reach an agreed deadline; nothing is too much trouble for her".

Significant deals include: advising AustralianSuper, a superannuation pension fund with more than AUS$85bn under management, on its acquisition of an indirect majority interest in the critically acclaimed 67 acre development project at King's Cross, in conjunction with Linklaters, KPMG and TIAA Henderson; advising on three London real estate acquisitions (including financing and subsequent re-financing) for one of India's largest property developers, aggregate value over 400m, in conjunction with Berwin Leighton Paisner; and advising an ultra high net worth client on the establishment of a significant trust and corporate structure to hold a diverse range of assets, in conjunction with Withers.

Trained Crill Canavan (now Collas Crill); qualified 2001; associate Crill Canavan (now Collas Crill) 1998-2003; Ogier 2003-2013; partner 2013; partner Ward Yates 2014.

Jersey Law Society; STEP and committee member of the Jersey Association of Trust Companies.

Exeter University (1998 LLB First Class Law); 2001 Jersey Solicitor; 2005 Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey.