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OGIER HOUSE, ST JULIAN'S AVENUE, ST PETER PORT, GY1 1WA
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Tortola, St Peter Port, St Helier, London, Hong Kong, Grand Cayman , and 1 more

What we say about the firm's legal practice in Guernsey

Commercial and banking

Within Commercial and banking, Ogier is a first tier firm,

Ogier is a ‘leading player‘, with a large commercial team in Guernsey. It was appointed by the liquidators of offshore marketing and advertising agency Wallace Barnaby & Associates, the largest liquidation matter in Guernsey in 2008. Marcus Leese is held in high regard, and newly appointed partner Caroline Chan gives ‘high-quality advice and really helps you get the deals done‘. Nick Gamble focuses on banking and structured finance.

Dispute resolution

Within Dispute resolution, Ogier is a second tier firm,

Ogier has recruited a specialist insolvency litigation associate from the Manchester office of DLA Piper UK LLP. Litigation partner Simon Davies is ‘very competent‘ and has been acting for the government of Indonesia in successfully freezing over €36m beneficially owned by Tommy Suharto. The case is currently being appealed.

Employment

Within Employment, Ogier is a third tier firm,

Ogier handles employment law across the Channel Islands, and is particularly strong on employment in Jersey. Its Guernsey practice is run by litigation head Simon Davies, who acted for Sandpiper CI in a high-profile unfair dismissal claim.

Guernsey Overview

Within Overview ,

Three leading Jersey firms have opened offices in Guernsey. Of these, by far the longest established is that of Ogier, which is focused on commercial work and is now competing on a level playing field in this arena with the Guernsey ‘Big Two’. Bedell Cristin’s Guernsey office - which has done well in captive insurance and investment funds work - and Mourant du Feu & Jeune’s Guernsey office - which is strong on trusts and has started winning work from major banks - are both relatively new and in the process of breaking into the market.

Investment funds

Within Investment funds, Ogier is a second tier firm,

Ogier now has a substantial share of the funds market, and has been advising some innovative clients. William Simpson is ‘very approachable and practical‘, and advised the first fund to list on the LSE’s new Specialist Fund Market. Newly appointed partner Caroline Chan is ‘first rate‘.

Private client, trusts and tax

Within Private client, trusts and tax, Ogier is a second tier firm,

Ogier focuses on highly complex commercial trusts work, often involving multiple jurisdictions, and frequently cooperation between the firm’s Jersey, Cayman Islands and BVI offices. It has ‘first-rate knowledge of international structuring for global families‘.

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  • Enviroco Limited v Farstad Supply A/S

    A recent case in the English Court of Appeal has considered the definition of “subsidiary” set out in sections 736 and 736A of the UK Companies Act 1985 (the “UK Act”), in circumstances where a secured party has taken security by way of assignment of title to the shares of an underlying company.
    - Ogier

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  • Student employees – new restrictions on employment

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  • Landlord & Tenant Briefing

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  • Being a helpful Landlord may be a mistake!

    Most landlords and their solicitors try to resist the impulse to be helpful, however, in these recessionary times when landlords are concerned to avoid empty space, there may be the temptation to take shortcuts to ensure a letting proceeds. In circumstances where it is intended that Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the 1954 Act) should not apply to the tenancy, i.e. that the tenant should not have the benefit of security of tenure, then occupation before the lease has been finalised (and the appropriate ‘contracting-out’ steps taken) is a potentially dangerous step and needs to be taken only when the landlord has fully comprehended the potential consequences.
    - Bircham Dyson Bell LLP

  • New regime for approval of major transport projects set to ‘switch on’

    The Planning Act 2008 (the Act) introduces a new regime designed to speed up the planning and, in turn, the delivery of infrastructure projects of national significance. For transport projects, it is one of the most important pieces of legislation in recent years. The new procedure will have to be used for any third runway at Heathrow, amongst other high-profile projects.
    - Bircham Dyson Bell LLP

  • Divorce and the media: the courts, the pay-outs and the speculation

    The rising divorce rate and some well-publicised settlements running into tens of millions of pounds have focused attention on a growing issue in divorce cases: just how far can spouses go to obtain information about their partner’s financial affairs?
    - Schillings

  • Top ten really useful cases of 2009

    If you want your panel solicitor to‘get off the fence’, need to know when a cause of action accrues or wondered whether the judiciary live in the 21st century, the following cases from 2009 provide some really useful guidance. With professional negligence claims on the increase, whether you are giving or receiving legal advice, the cases discussed below highlight practical points for all legal advisers to be aware of.
    - Bond Pearce LLP

  • The twilight zone: legal issues for directors

    there is no legal definition of the term ‘twilight zone’ (perhaps derived from the cult TV series, the writer would like to think), which is now widely used to describe a period of trading when a company has, or is predicted to have, insufficient cash to pay its debts as they fall due. This might be an immediate cash-flow crisis or the problem might be anticipated many months ahead.
    - Holman Fenwick Willan

  • Cloud computing:key issues for SMEs

    Although many definitions exist, broadly speaking ‘cloud computing’ is the outsourcing of specified IT functions via the internet (the cloud) to provide or receive services that would otherwise only be available if the end user had installed the appropriate hardware and/or software on desktops, or on local networks controlled by that organisation itself. Such services may include the use of software over the internet or remote storage of business data by a third-party provider. One benefit of this is that businesses can structure payment for these services differently (for example pay-as-you-go or on a subscription basis), rather than having to pay large sunk costs for long-term software licences, and the purchase and installation of IT infrastructure necessary to support the services locally.
    - SJ Berwin LLP

  • Commission victorious in ‘regulatory holiday’ action brought against Germany

    On 3 December 2009, following an action brought by the European Commission under article 226 of the EC Treaty (now article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU) the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed that Germany had failed to comply with its obligations under the European regulatory framework for telecommunications (the Common Regulatory Framework (CRF)). The ECJ’s judgment in European Commission v Germany [2009] confirms that Germany acted unlawfully by adopting a national law excluding ‘new markets’ from regulation – so called ‘regulatory holidays’.
    - SJ Berwin LLP

  • New Commission

    On Friday 27 November 2009 the new European Commission, which will begin its mandate early in 2010, was announced by Commission President José Barroso. This announcement followed a week after the appointment of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton as the President of the European Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy respectively, the two new roles created by the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009.
    - Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
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