The Legal 500

Work Department

Business and trust law.

Position

Clive Chaplin’s practice covers general corporate and commercial and investment funds with a preponderance of European private equity firms as his client base. He is the non-executive chairman of the Ogier Group and a member of its audit and risk committee. He was formerly head of the Jersey firm’s business and trust law group. His practice covers general corporate and commercial and investment funds. 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 Turner Peacock, London; qualified England 1977; solicitor Jersey 1986; general counsel to a financial services group 1987-94; partner Ogier 1994. Current public company directorships: Jersey Electricity PLC; Newton Offshore Strategy Fund Limited. He is also a director of several private companies operating in the financial services sector.

Languages

Good working knowledge of French and Spanish.

Member

Law Society of England and Wales; Law Society of Jersey; chairman of the Jersey Law Commission.

Education

Nottingham University (1974, 2(1)); College of Law, Guildford (1975).

Practice Areas

Corporate and commercial; Investment funds; Private equity