The team at Babbé LLP supports HNWIs, trustees, settlors and financial institutions with the setting up of complex wealth management structures, including family offices and trusts. Jointly leading the practice are Andrew Laws, a trusts and fiduciary matters specialist, and Michael Riddiford, whose practice is centred on wills, estate planning and property transactions. Nicholas Robison leads on contentious trusts matters, representing trustees and beneficiaries. Scott McPherson left to work in the funds administration business.
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Key clients
- Mminor and unborn beneficiaries of one branch of a Guernsey trust in an ongoing Public Trustee v Cooper application
- Credit Suisse Trust Limited
- Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited
- Saffery Champness Management International Limited/Saffery Champness Trust Corporation
- Artemis Trustees Limited
- Aquitaine Trust Limited/Aquitaine Group Limited
- Imperium Trust Company Limited
- Aon Services (Guernsey) Limited
- St Peters Trust Company Limited
- LTS Tax Limited
- New Street Trust Limited/New Street Management Limited
- Oak Trust (Guernsey) Limited
- Oak Trust (Mauritius) Limited
- Gower Financial Services Limited/Gower Pensions Management Limited
- Weighbridge Trust Limited
- 2mi Limited
- Dixcart Trust Corporation Limited
- Zedra Trust Company (Guernsey) Limited
- Parish Trustees Limited
- Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited
- Fides Trust Limited
- Perkins Trustees Limited
- Bourse Trust Company Limited
- Belasko Administration Limited
- Butterfield Bank (Guernsey) Limited
- Crossways Trustees
- Louvre Trustees Limited
- Moore Stephens
- Praxis (including Nerine)
- Intertrust
- Opus
- Crossways Trustees
- BWCI
- PWC
- Grant Thornton
- Oddfellows
- Cherry Godfrey
- Fort Trustees Limited
Work highlights
- Represented the co-trustee of a Guernsey trust, as the defendant, together with the corporate co-trustee, in an ongoing application before the Royal Court in relation to trustee liabilities in terms of Sections 22 and 39 of the Trusts (Guernsey) Law 2007.
- Represented the interests of the minor and unborn beneficiaries of one branch of a Guernsey trust, which has been the subject of an ongoing Public Trustee v Cooper application.
- Acted for the trustee of a Guernsey Trust, which has been the subject of, and involved in, various unconnected hostile multimillion pound proceedings in a number of international jurisdictions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Andrew Laws, Michael Riddiford