The Legal 500

Work Department

Private client and trusts law group.

Position

Partner in private client and trusts team, specialising in all areas of private trusts and foundations with a particular emphasis on establishing high-net-worth structures, private trust companies, resolving breach of trust issues and drafting complex trust documentation. Also specialises in running family offices for ultra high-net-worth families. Clients include large number of trustees both in Jersey and internationally, banks and ultra high-net-worth families. The firm: Ogier offers legal and fiduciary services from BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey and London. Ogier has fiduciary services offices in Bahrain and Ireland, and a representative office in Tokyo. In 2010 Ogier established a Channel Islands practice at its Hong Kong office to offer Guernsey and Jersey legal services to clients in the Asian time zone, in addition to the BVI and Cayman services already on offer there.

Career

Trained Rix & Kay; qualified 1995; associate solicitor 1995-98; associate solicitor commercial department Eversheds 1998-2002; trusts department Ogier 2003; advocate Jersey 2009, partner 2010.

Member

STEP; Working Party for the Jersey Foundations Law.

Education

Bristol University (1992 LLB Law); Leicester University (2001 LLM European Unions Law).

Practice Areas

Contentious trusts and probate; Private client