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Steven Meiklejohn
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Work Department
Private client and trusts.
Position
Partner and head of the private client and trusts team. Notary Public. Steven specialises in trusts, private client, regulatory, employee benefit and pension work. He is heavily involved in advising all the firm’s major trust company clients on such issues. He is a regular speaker at conferences on trust and estate topics. The firm: in 2008 Ogier opened new offices in Bahrain and Tokyo and launched a new service, Ogier private wealth, which offers the very highest levels of personalised wealth planning for high-net-worth individuals, family businesses and family offices. Ogier now 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.
Career
Career: Called England and Wales 1982; Ogier 1983; advocate Jersey 1985; partner Ogier 1988. He sits on the working parties looking at trust law reform, the trust company codes of practice and the introduction of foundations in Jersey. Publications: contributed the chapters on Jersey law in ‘European Succession Laws’, ‘Capital Taxes and Estate Planning in Europe’, ‘Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts’, and the STEP manual on the transfer of trusts.
Member
Member: Gray’s Inn; Jersey Law Society; STEP (branch committee).
Education
Education: Manchester Polytechnic (1981).
Practice Areas
Employee share schemes; Pensions (non contentious); Private client