Advocate Adam Cole is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution team, with wide commercial litigation experience and a particular interest in contentious insolvency matters, regulatory enforcement referrals and trust disputes. He has been practising for over a decade and has been admitted in Guernsey since 2014. Prior to that Adam worked with a major international firm in London, specialising in insurance-related litigation. Adam is a member of the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES) and was awarded a Distinction for the STEP Advanced Certificate in International Trusts Disputes.
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Alex Wickens is an experienced Banking & Finance lawyer specialising in real estate financing and Islamic financing matters in Walkers' Guernsey law team.He is ranked as a Rising Star for Guernsey Banking & Finance work by Legal 500.Alex has almost a decade's experience in private practice in Guernsey, and advises clients on complex structuring arrangements on acquisitions and disposals of UK commercial real estate assets, advising on both borrower and lender side.He also advises on Islamic finance structures in respect of real estate holdings, and on fund financing matters.Alex also has in-house experience, having undertaken a six-month project with a Guernsey financial services provider.
Alexandra Corner is a partner in Walkers' Jersey Banking & Finance team focusing on real estate finance, fund finance and debt capital markets. She is the Practice Group Head for Walkers' Banking & Finance team across Jersey and Guernsey and has been working offshore for more than 20 years. Alexandra has been admitted in Jersey since 2003 and has practised both in the Island and in the City. Alexandra is recognised by both Chambers UK and Legal 500 as a Banking & Finance lawyer, with Chambers citing client feedback that she is "knowledgeable, responsive and pragmatic". Her areas of specialism include complex real estate finance instructions, subscription lines and other fund finance matters and debt capital markets work include note issuances, repackagings, and securitisations.
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Alison is a partner and head of the Guernsey Dispute Resolution team. She is recognised in Legal 500's "Hall of Fame". Alison has considerable experience in relation to trust, banking, insolvency and insurance litigation, as well as general corporate disputes. She appears regularly in front of the Royal Court and Court of Appeal. Alison is a regular speaker at conferences in Guernsey, the UK and internationally, particularly in relation to trust litigation corporate governance and AML issues
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Catherine Overton is a Partner in Walkers' London office where she is a member of the firm's Global Banking & Finance Group and practises both British Virgin Islands law and Cayman Islands law.
Catherine is recognised by Legal 500 as a Rising Star, has over fifteen years' experience in private practice and has worked offshore since 2016. She trained and spent much of her private practice career at Clifford Chance. Per Legal 500 (2022), clients say "Catherine Overton is great to work with" and she is noted as having a track record of securitisation and emerging markets lending.
Catherine advises on general banking, acquisition and leveraged finance, structured finance and debt capital markets matters, and has experience of advising on complex cross-border restructurings.
She has extensive experience across a wide range of product areas including debt, equity, equity-linked and asset-backed securities, securitisation, debt-based capital markets, derivatives (including equity derivatives) and structured products, repackagings, collateralised bond and loan offerings, note programmes and listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, commercial paper and depository receipt programmes, convertible debt and warrants issues, and asset finance.
Her client base spans leading global financial institutions, borrowers, issuers and private clients.
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I’m a Senior Associate and Guernsey Advocate in the Guernsey Corporate team.
Having trained in Guernsey, I have broad corporate, finance and regulatory experience (including economic substance and data protection) with a particular interest in investment funds, and financial services regulatory matters.
I advise a variety of investment fund sponsors and other stakeholders on the formation/structuring, ongoing operation (including in relation to regulatory compliance and investor disputes), listing and wind-down (as well as term extensions and restructurings) of funds and private equity vehicles across a wide variety of asset classes.
Chris Hutley-Hurst is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Investment Funds & Corporate Practice Group in Guernsey.Chris is a Guernsey Advocate with considerable experience as an offshore lawyer – he advises on all aspects of investment fund and corporate transactions, including investment fund formation, acquisitions, disposals and regulatory matters.He also advises on economic substance and taxation matters, having worked as a tax lawyer while practising onshore.Chris has experience of working in London and New York.
Christopher Reed is a Group Partner* in Walkers' Jersey office. He joined Walkers in 2018 and is a member of the Investment Funds and Corporate Groups.Christopher assists a broad range of clients, including international corporations, private equity investors, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, investment managers, sponsors and administrators on fund investment and regulatory matters. He advises on all stages in the life cycle of a fund, from structuring through to establishment, acquisitions, divestments and termination, as well as more general corporate and commercial matters.
Craig Cordle is a Partner in Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds & Corporate Practice Group specialising in all aspects of the structuring, restructuring, merger, sale, establishment and operation of listed and private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, single asset vehicles/SPACs and other collective investment arrangements.
In addition, Craig advises on the merger and acquisition of private and listed companies, schemes of arrangement and regulatory and competition issues.
Craig is an asset management lawyer with 14 years' experience in private practice, most of which was spent in the asset management, funds and capital markets teams of two leading international law firms in the City of London.
Since moving to Guernsey in 2016, and re-qualifying as a Guernsey Advocate, he continues to work with a number of vehicles listed on exchanges in London and across Europe, including The International Stock Exchange (TISE).
He has been consistently recognised for the quality of his advice by Chambers UK, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000.
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Daniel is a senior counsel in Walkers' Jersey Employment Law Group who advises organisations and individuals within the financial services sector on exits, disciplinary issues and investigations, and on regulatory matters.Dan is a Jersey Advocate with experience in Royal Court and Tribunal cases, as well as providing strategic advice on internal investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, whistleblowing and discrimination claims, and M&A as well as restructuring and redundancy exercises.He advises businesses and senior executives and founders on regulatory matters, partnership and shareholder disputes, and restrictive covenants.Dan also advises on regulatory issues – including carrying out investigations into regulatory matters, and supporting regulated businesses facing investigations or enforcement action – and works with Insolvency & Dispute Resolution colleagues on fraud and financial crime disputes, in particular injunctions, disclosure orders and tracing of assets.
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Eoin Ryan is a Partner in the Irish office of Walkers and is a member of the firm's corporate department. Eoin has extensive expertise in share / asset acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, partnerships, shareholders' agreements and has worked on domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions from initial stage through to completion.
He also advises on domestic and cross-border corporate restructuring, Irish corporate governance and general commercial matters.
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Eoin has acted on a number of high-profile transactions including advising:
an Irish mast company in relation to its multi-million euro sale to an infrastructure fund;
an Irish wireless networks company on its sale to a US entity;
a large US corporation on its multi-million euro acquisition of an Irish media company;
a UK asset manager on its entry into various joint-venture agreements with Irish property developers;
a European advertising company on its acquisition of an Irish advertising business;
a leading European finance company on the multi-million euro sale of its assets to a US bank;
an Asian corporation on its multi-million euro acquisition of an Irish semi-conductor company;
the lender to a UK bank on the restructuring of its Irish operations;
an Irish energy company on various equity-fundraising rounds; and
a UK bank on its successful exit from various Irish investments.
Fraser Hern is widely regarded as one of the leading offshore lawyers specialising in contentious and non-contentious insolvencies, complex restructurings, special situation advisory work, and shareholder litigation, having been consistently ranked as a Tier 1 advisor by legal directories.Fraser advises on a wide range of issues arising out of shareholder and investor disputes, complex cross-border equity and debt restructurings, corporate insolvency and special situation related matters. Fraser's clients include private equity funds, hedge funds, high net worth individuals, bank creditors, debtors, shareholders, directors and insolvency practitioners.Fraser has been described by Chambers Asia-Pacific as "a standout adviser for contentious matters …, who works alongside clients to steer through difficult situations", as "coming highly recommended for his talent as an insolvency and restructuring lawyer, with a strong track record in both contentious and non-contentious matters" and as being "widely recognised for his restructuring and insolvency expertise, in relation to which he earns plaudits for having established a 'very successful practice'". Legal 500 describes Fraser as "exceling in the litigation and restructuring space". Fraser has also been recognised as a leading lawyer by the International Who's Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers.Fraser is a Group Partner* in Walkers' Insolvency, Restructuring and Dispute Resolution group based in Jersey, and is the Head of Walkers' Channel Islands Business.
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Helena Lavin is a Senior Associate in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Group, specialising in contentious insolvency and trust matters. She has been practising in Guernsey for around seven years – prior to that she worked in the Middle East, and with law firms in England, and also worked as in-house counsel. Helena has broad expertise acting for and advising predominantly international clients in disputes often with a multi-jurisdictional element, and is a member of ARIES and INSOL International. Having a particular interest in contentious insolvency and trust matters, her cases have involved acting for trustees, beneficiaries and other parties to trusts in seeking disclosure from trustees, obtaining injunctive relief pertaining to trust assets, applications to vary trusts and challenged Beddoe applications. She also has extensive experience acting for directors, shareholders and other stakeholders in a wide range of disputes covering breach of fiduciary duties, professional negligence, enforcement of judgments and contested winding up proceedings.
Hughie joined Walkers in 2008 and is a partner in the Global Investment Funds and Finance and Corporate Groups. He is based in the firm's London office and advises on both Cayman Islands law and BVI law aspects of transactions. He acts for alternative investment funds including their establishment, on-going corporate transactions and financing activities. He has also advised extensively on fund restructurings and distressed situations. Hughie also has significant experience in a broad range of finance and corporate transactions and regularly advises on lending and security transactions involving Cayman Islands or BVI law. Those transactions typically involve issues as to corporate restructurings, mergers, the perfection and granting of security by Cayman Islands or BVI vehicles, the charging of shares in a Cayman Islands or BVI company, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and group reorganisations and restructurings.
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Jack Boldarin is Managing Partner of Walkers' London office and a Partner in the firm's Global Finance and Corporate Group. He is experienced in British Virgin Islands law and Cayman Islands law. Jack heads up the firm's London/European based British Virgin Islands law practice and also leads a dedicated team of lawyers who provide British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law services to clients based in Russia and across Central & Eastern Europe. Jack specialises in corporate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures, takeovers, international stock exchange listings and corporate reorganisations), structured and asset finance (including securitisations and aircraft financings) and project and acquisition finance. He spent a number of years in each of the Jersey, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands offices of the firm prior to moving to London and is the former leader of the Finance and Corporate Group in the British Virgin Islands.
James trained with Allen & Overy LLP and spent time in the firm's Litigation Department as part of the Trust, Asset Tracing and Fraud team working closely with the partner heading that team.
James gained experience of a range of litigation matters, including particularly trusts disputes, at a large Channel Islands firm before joining Walkers.
He has acted on some of the highest value and most complex cases before the Jersey courts during his time with Walkers.
Jamie Bookless is a Senior Counsel based in the Guernsey office. He joined Walkers in 2020 and is a member of the Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution team. Jamie specialises in complex and high-value commercial disputes and insolvency matters. Jamie regularly acts for large commercial clients, corporate trustees, major accountancy firms and investment banks. Jamie also has experience of competition law disputes, and disputes over data protection legislation and contentious regulatory matters.
Jan Golaszewski is a partner and head of Walkers' London Insolvency & Dispute Resolution practice, advising on Cayman Islands and BVI law matters.
He is recognised by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 (who have named him a "Leading Individual") and has 20 years' experience in private practice as an onshore and offshore disputes lawyer in London, the Caribbean and Asia, specialising in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, arbitration and insolvency matters.
Jan advises bondholders, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions and directors on insolvencies, restructuring, shareholder disputes and complex litigation.
He has particular experience in interim protection for creditors and shareholders and has acted as an expert witness on Cayman Islands law in foreign court and arbitration proceedings.
Jasmine joined Walkers in 2007 and is a partner in the Global Investment Funds Group based in the London office. Her practice focuses on both alternative investment funds and private equity funds, and she regularly advises on their establishment, on-going corporate transactions and financing activities. Jasmine has also advised clients on their fund restructurings and distressed situations. Jasmine has significant experience in a broad range of corporate and finance transactions, and regularly advises on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and group reorganisations and restructurings. Her practice has also included advising on IPOs of Cayman Islands companies on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, and her clients include leading international banks, financial institutions, asset management firms and private equity houses. Jasmine is also part of the Walkers Global India Group which drives the firm’s strategy and dealings with Indian companies and clients and foreign investments into India. Jasmine has experience in both Cayman Islands law and BVI law aspects of transactions.
Jessica Robinson is a senior counsel based in Walkers' Guernsey office, specialising in advising on M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and corporate finance matters.
Her experience includes M&A transactions involving regulated trust company service providers, as well as a major Middle East acquisition for Amazon.com Inc.
Jessica has worked in Walkers' BVI, Guernsey and Jersey offices, and advises on BVI, Cayman and Guernsey law.
Prior to moving offshore, she practised in the London office of a major international firm for five years, during which time she completed two secondments with major banking clients. Jessica also completed another secondment with a major international bank in Jersey, providing training and designing and implementing robust internal legal procedures.
Jessica speaks French.
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Julia Keppe is an experienced Banking & Finance lawyer, specialising in fund finance, leveraged acquisitions, corporate lending, real estate finance, direct lending and restructurings, representing corporations, private equity sponsors and financial institutions. She has been practising since 2006 in London, New York and offshore, and is recognised by Legal 500. Julia advises on all aspects of fund financing matters, including subscription line facilities, NAV and asset-backed facilities, margin lending and open-ended fund facilities, and is part of Walkers' Global Fund Finance team. She has further experience of advising both borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border lending transactions comprising multiple forms of debt financing, as well as complex international restructurings.
Kevin is a Partner in Walkers' Jersey Investment Funds & Corporate practice group, advising on all aspects of corporate law.
Kevin advises US and UK private equity sponsors, institutional clients, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and HNWIs on M&A, private equity, equity capital markets and restructuring mandates. Kevin has acted on numerous take-private transactions implemented by a members scheme of arrangement as well as the first take private in Jersey of a Jersey listed company implemented by a statutory merger under Companies (Jersey) Law 1991.
In addition, Kevin has a very active local M&A practice and regularly acts as lead counsel to Jersey based clients on cross border sales and acquisitions of regulated financial services businesses.
Kevin's advisory practice includes advising the boards of Jersey listed companies on corporate governance matters.
Kevin has been consistently recognised by Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and IFLR as a leading next generation lawyer.
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Kim Paiva is a Group Partner in Walker's top-tier Guernsey Banking & Finance team – she has 15 years' experience in private practice in onshore and offshore roles, and leads the Guernsey acquisition finance and general secured lending team. Kim has a broad range of expertise encompassing Banking & Finance and Corporate law matters, and specialises in acquisition and asset financing deals, advising borrowers and lenders predominantly in London and within the Channel Islands on matters of Guernsey law. She is part of the market-leading Walkers Global Aviation Group, and advises both owners and financiers in relation to transactions involving aircraft registered or to be registered on 2-REG (Guernsey's Aircraft Registry). Kim has ten years' experience advising on Guernsey law, and also advises on leveraged finance, and in acquisitions of regulated trust and company services providers. Having spent five years practising in South Africa's largest law firm, Kim also works with clients from South Africa on funds and private capital matters, advising clients in respect of asset protection and succession planning structures.
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Louise Hamilton is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Jersey Banking & Finance Practice Group, specialising in real estate financing, general secured lending and Sharia compliant and acquisition financing matters in particular.Louise regularly acts for leading global financial institutions, corporations, private equity houses and sovereign wealth funds.Working with partners and Senior Counsel across Walkers' European offices, Louise also plays a lead role in developing Walkers' relationships with Scottish clients and intermediaries.
Luca advises individuals and institutions on a range of trust and succession disputes, both in the UK and abroad. His clients include entrepreneurs, charities, family businesses, and trust companies. Luca has been cited in the legal directories as "great and a very thorough, bright, hard-working litigator" and "a delight to work with. He's very academic, writes incredibly well, is liked by clients and is well organised." He is bilingual in Italian and English with a good knowledge of Spanish and Mandarin and enjoys using his language skills to the benefit of Stewarts’ international client base.
Luca has experience of disputes about the validity and administration of trusts (including directions applications, requests for information, and applications for the removal of trustees and protectors) as well as blessing applications in complex trust restructurings. He also has experience of a variety of will and probate disputes (including lack of capacity, want of knowledge and approval, and undue influence claims, as well as construction issues, claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, and proprietary estoppel claims).
Luca has also acted in a number of commercial disputes with trust law aspects or allegations of fraud or breach of fiduciary duty.
Marc Seddon is a partner in Walkers' Jersey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution team, specialising in contentious and semi-contentious trusts matters, and in company disputes.He is a Jersey Advocate with more than a decade's experience offshore, and advises financial services clients on the full spectrum of disputes, including insolvency matters and regulatory issues, with a particular focus on advising corporate services providers in respect of directors' duties.
Mark Galazzi is a partner in Walkers' London office where he is a member of the firm's Global Finance and Corporate Practice Groups, and heads the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Asset Finance team in the European timezone.
Mark trained with a Magic Circle firm before moving offshore – he has 13 years' experience in private practice in London, Jersey and Singapore, and is recognised by Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner.
He has extensive experience in advising on both BVI and Cayman Islands laws, and has a strong international practice that covers a broad range of finance and corporate transactions, including listings, aviation and maritime finance and SPAC activity.
Mark has a busy lender-side finance practice, as well as a significant practice working with private banks in London and Switzerland focused on aviation, maritime and real estate financing for HNWIs.
Mark is a member of the Walkers' Global Asset Finance Group.
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Neil McDonald is a Partner based in Walkers' London office where he is a member of the firm's Global Finance and Corporate Groups. Neil has a broad range of experience in British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Jersey law. He routinely works on cross-border structured finance, loan finance, project finance and acquisition finance transactions, as well as general corporate and commercial matters, equity financings, joint ventures, restructurings, and mergers, acquisitions and disposals.
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Nitrisha Doorasamy is a private capital and trusts lawyer with substantial in-house experience as a corporate trustee and fiduciary specialist.Nitrisha is an associate in Walkers' Guernsey Private Capital & Trusts team specialising in non-contentious private client work, including drafting and the establishment of trust, foundation and family office structures.She is an affiliate member of STEP who spent more than six years in the trusts team of a major South African banking group before moving offshore and joining Walkers in 2018.Nitrisha's practice is geared around supporting local trust companies and HNWIs on asset protection and succession planning issues.She also works with Walkers' Guernsey corporate law team on the intersection between trust and company law, and issues involving companies underlying trust structures.
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Rupert Morris is a partner and head of Walkers' Private Capital and Trusts Team in the Channel Islands. Based in Guernsey he has almost 15 years' practice as a private wealth specialist focusing on private client advisory and structuring work.Rupert also has significant experience since qualifying as a Guernsey Advocate in 2010 as a contentious practitioner, appearing before the Guernsey courts at all levels, particularly in respect of Beddoe, Public Trustee v Cooper and Saunders v Vautier applications as well as applications to vary the terms of trusts.He is recognised as one of the leading lawyers in his field in Guernsey, sits on the STEP Worldwide Council and is the Chair of STEP's Guernsey branch.Rupert is instructed by many leading fiduciaries, financial institutions, government departments and UHNW individuals in respect of all aspects of local and cross-border advisory and structuring work, impact investment, charitable structures, and regulatory matters including investigations and dawn raids.
Sara Hall is a partner in Walkers' Global Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group. With almost 30 years' experience in global senior in-house roles as well as in private practice, Sara now practises Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law.
Sara specialises in all aspects of financial services and international regulation. Since joining Walkers, she has expanded her practice to advise on digital assets, DAOs, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
With a global client base of onshore firms, financial institutions, custodians, exchanges, founders, directors and investors, Sara advises on matters relating to the scope of regulation, as well as anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, data protection, and tax-related OECD initiatives such as economic substance.
Sara frequently works with onshore counsel to advise clients how offshore regulation might impact their business. Where a business is in scope of offshore regulation, she leads on the licence application process, and supports clients once licensed with their ongoing regulatory obligations.
Sarah is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group specialising in contentious insolvency and regulatory disputes. She is an experienced court-going Advocate who frequently represents liquidators in respect of contentious and non-contentious matters before Guernsey's Royal Court in relation to compulsory and voluntary winding-up, and holds the BPP Certificate of Proficiency in Corporate Insolvency (for which she received the highest exam result in the country). Sarah also advises and represents directors of regulated entities in respect of regulatory investigations and disputes. She has significant experience in all aspects of commercial dispute as well as considerable experience of appearing in the Magistrate’s Court, Royal Court and Court of Appeal.
Sarah is a Group Partner in the Employment team, based in Guernsey. Sarah advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, including tribunal claims and procedure, contracts of employment, internal grievance and disciplinary matters, managing sickness absence, misconduct and capability issues, dismissals, discrimination, employment policies and procedures, redundancies and aspects of mergers, acquisitions and disposals.Sarah has experience in advising companies in a broad range of industries including financial services, insurance, legal and media. She also has in-house secondment experience working within both employment legal and HR teams and spent time in a major international bank where she gained invaluable experience of employment related matters from the client's perspective.
Shane Martin is a Partner based in Walkers' Ireland office. He has significant experience in regulatory risk and compliance in financial services across the banking, insurance, asset management, credit union and payment services sectors.
Drawing on his experience as a regulator and industry adviser, Shane provides practical and informed advice on all regulatory compliance matters with particular expertise in financial crime.
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Susan Battye is based in our Ireland office where she is a partner and head of the employment practice.
Susan has over two decades' experience advising employers on the full life cycle of employment. Her advisory experience includes: corporate restructuring and redundancies, employment support in M&A transactions, outsourcing and transfers of undertakings, secondment arrangements, executive remuneration requirements, harmonising employee benefits and entitlements, compliance projects, drafting employment contracts for regulated functions, grievance and disciplinary procedures, updating staff handbooks, HR policies and codes of conduct, hybrid and flexible arrangements, working time and right to disconnect projects, managing whistleblowing claims, internal investigations, and providing employment law training.
She has significant experience in resolving complex disputes, including bonus claims, breach of confidentiality clauses, enforcement of post-termination restrictions. Susan has represented clients before the Workplace Relations Commission, including defending unfair dismissals, constructive dismissals, discrimination claims, whistleblowing and penalisation claims, workplace bullying and stress-related claims, industrial relations disputes and employment injunctions before the High Court. Susan also provides strategic advice on managing the legal, commercial and reputational risks of implementing senior executive terminations, severance negotiations, and drafting settlement agreements.
Tatziana Paraguacuto-Maheo is a partner in the London office and heads the London Investment Funds Group.
Tatziana has almost 20 years’ experience and has been recognised as one of the top 50 women in hedge funds by the Hedge Fund Journal.
Throughout her career Tatziana has acted for major financial institutions, investment funds and asset managers based in London, New York and Hong Kong including the launch of many of the world’s largest emerging managers.
Tatziana advises on all legal aspects affecting funds including launch of new products, restructurings, acquisitions as well as regulatory, contentious and governance issues.
Tatziana speaks French and Spanish.
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Victoria is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Guernsey Employment Law Group. Her employment law practice includes specialisms in data protection, executive exits and team moves and employment connected with regulated financial services business. Victoria's data protection work focuses on staff data (including data subject access requests and cross-border data transfers), frequently in the context of regulated industries, mergers & acquisitions and litigation. Her practice relating to senior exits and team moves involves advising both employers and employees on contentious exits and enforcement of post termination restrictions as well as constructive and unfair dismissal. Having worked as a commercial and fiduciary lawyer in London and Guernsey, and attaining STEP qualifications prior to specialising in employment work, Victoria has relevant experience of working within a regulated environment. Victoria is a Guernsey Advocate and Notary Public and also advises on housing and immigration matters.
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Zoë Hallam is a Group Partner in the Banking & Finance team in Walkers' Guernsey office, having previously spent eight years in the firm's Cayman office.Zoë advises on a broad range of finance-related matters, with a specialised focus on Fund Finance, Real Estate Finance and Islamic Finance transactions. In the Fund Finance sector she has advised both borrowers and lender on subscription facilities, NAV facilities and GP financing and her clients include leading international banks, alternative lenders and fund managers.