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Director. Andrew has significant experience in relation to a broad range of corporate matters. His specialist areas include mergers and acquisitions, investment funds, private investment structures and financial services regulation. Andrew also regularly deals with secured lending, corporate restructuring and matters relating to corporate governance.

Annemarie Hughes

Senior Counsel and Head of Private Client, Trusts & Pensions. Annemarie has significant experience advising private clients/HNWIs, TCSP’s and insurance and pensions companies on complex trust, pensions and private client matters, both domestic and international. Annemarie’s specialist areas of practice are: Private Client Trusts Regulatory and tax investigations Pensions Insurance Probate & Wills

Barry Smith

Consultant. Barry’s specialist areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, secured lending; property unit trusts, collective investment schemes, private client, trusts, pensions, corporate structuring, corporate governance and financial services regulation and online gaming licencing and structuring.

Catherine French

Associate Director. Catherine advises on all aspects of private client work. Catherine is also familiar with tax compliance laws (including those relating to Economic Substance, FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard) and those relating to transparency (the Trust Registration Service, Beneficial Ownership and the Register of Overseas Entities).

Donna Matthews

Senior Counsel. Donna advises a wide range of international and local institutional clients in relation to non-contentious commercial, shipping and trust related matters. Donna is a Commissioner for Oaths and Notary Public in the Isle of Man. Donna’s specialist areas of practice are corporate law, shipping and trust and private client.

Esme Scott

Esme is an Associate in the Corporate & Commercial team and assists with a wide range of matters.

Greg Jones

Consultant. Greg has experience in all areas of UK and Isle of Man personal and corporate taxation but specialises in private client matters, especially capital taxation, trusts, residence and domicile, double tax treaties, and liaising/ negotiating with tax authorities on disclosure issues. His clients include local and international high net worth individuals, companies, trusts and corporate service providers. Greg has been involved over the years in various tax strategy groups and working parties and is a frequent contributor to the business press and speaker at tax-related events both on and off the Isle of Man.

Helen Fretwell

Associate Director Helen has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate and commercial disciplines. She routinely advises financial institutions, insurers, corporate service providers, onshore law firms and borrowers in both local and multi-jurisdictional transactions. Helen’s specialist areas of practice are: Banking and asset finance Financial service regulation Commercial contracts Mergers and acquisitions Corporate governance

Jessica McManus

Senior Associate. Jessica is able to assist and advise clients in a number of areas, including high-value corporate and commercial litigation, employment issues, personal injury and clinical negligence and debt recovery. Jessica’s commercial litigation practice has seen her act for a number of onshore and offshore clients from large CSPs to small partnerships. Jessica works with clients to find appropriate and effective resolutions including utilising alternative dispute resolution such as mediation. In her employment practice, Jessica advises both employers and employees in contentious and non-contentious matters. Jessica was complimented for her “targeted and concise advocacy” when she successfully obtained an injunction for a Consultant who had been suspended from his position. Jessica also regularly advises on non-contentious issues such as contracts and policies for employers and settlement agreements.

Joshua Quinn

Associate Director. Joshua is a highly regarded trial advocate specialising in employment, commercial and property litigation.

Leanne McKeown

Director/Head of Dispute Resolution/Head of Employment. Leanne specialises in commercial disputes, company, fiduciary obligations and employment related litigation. Leanne has significant experience advising in high value claims regarding allegations of fraudulent breaches of directors’ duties and complex e-disclosure process management. Injunctions and Norwich Pharmacal applications are a frequent feature of the multi-dimensional matters that Leanne handles. Leanne has particular experience advising on all aspects of employment, equality and industrial relations law. Leanne advises clients in relation to workplace investigations, confidentiality, restrictive covenants, social media issues as well as related privacy issues. She is expert in the employment law issues that arise from mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and redundancy situations. Leanne represents a number of island based Unions and recently advised a Teachers’ Union on matters concerning industrial action short of strike. Leanne provides counsel on all matters arising out of the employer-employee relationship and represents employers in contentious employment law disputes before the Equality and Employment Tribunal and the Isle of Man High Court, including injunction proceedings. mercial disputes. Specialist areas of practice include are areas of employment and equality law, data protection and civil and commercial litigation, to include freezing injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal applications, director/shareholder disputes and professional negligence claims.

Lizzie Beard

Lizzie was commissioned as a Manx Advocate in November 2023 and is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team.

Mark Emery

Director. Since qualifying as a Manx Advocate in 2012 Mark has regularly appeared at all levels of the Isle of Man High Court of Justice. Mark practices a wide range of commercial litigation, but has particular experience in commercial disputes, corporate insolvency, banking litigation, applications for injunctive relief, enforcing foreign judgments and advising on contentious issues of employment, data protection and trust law.

Mark Dougherty

Managing Director. Mark has extensive experience in the Isle of Man in corporate and commercial law and is consistently ranked as one of the top corporate and commercial lawyers on the Island. Mark regularly advises multi-national companies, listed entities, banks and private equity houses as well as high net worth individuals in a wide range of Isle of Man corporate and commercial matters. Mark is a qualified notary public. Mark’s specialist areas of practice are banking, capital markets, shipping, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

Rachel Winterbach

Senior Associate. Rachel is an admitted attorney in South Africa and an Isle of Man Advocate. Rachel is currently practising as an associate in the Corporate and Commercial department where she advises on general corporate related matters, including drafting legal opinions and commercial documentation.

Ruth Costain

Senior Associate. Ruth has appeared before all levels of the Isle of Man High Court and has a diverse range of experience in civil, commercial and public law litigation including:- commercial disputes; applications for injunctive relief; personal injury, professional negligence and medical negligence; human rights; and doleance claims. Ruth also has experience of advising in bankruptcy and liquidation matters, in particular in respect of recognition of foreign office holders and enforcement of foreign judgments.

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