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Carey Olsen

47 ESPLANADE, ST HELIER, JE1 0BD
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Fax 01534 887744
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www.careyolsen.com
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St Peter Port, St Helier, London

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

Banking and finance

Within Banking and finance, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

Carey Olsen’s Channel Islands banking team, which has ‘good strength in depth and is easy to work with‘, is headed by former banker and regulatory expert Paul Sugden. ‘His technical knowledge is second to none and he is meticulous in his advice‘. Edward Quinn heads the finance team.

Commercial property

Within Commercial property, Carey Olsen is a second tier firm,

Carey Olsen’s team - which ‘rapidly gets to grips with complex structures‘ - is headed by newly promoted partner Christopher Philpott, who has a property litigation background. Alex Ohlsson advises Jersey’s Waterfront Enterprise Board Ltd, a key new client won following a competitive pitch. Nicholas Crocker is highly regarded for property financing.

Corporate and commercial

Within Corporate and commercial, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

Carey Olsen’s team is co-headed by Nicholas Crocker and Mike Jeffrey, and has been boosted by the appointment of Guy Coltman to the partnership. Coltman and Jeffrey worked on the migration of the Henderson Group. The team - which is ‘strong and its skill set wide-ranging‘ - also worked on the sale of SandpiperCI’s businesses, one of the most significant Channel Islands M&A deals of 2008.

Dispute resolution

Within Dispute resolution, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

Carey Olsen’s Robert MacRae - who is acting for Russa Management Ltd, one of the two trustees involved in the Alhamrani litigation - is ‘an excellent advocate‘ who is ‘great fun to work with‘, ‘impressive and effective‘. William Grace, who has a regulatory focus, has ‘excellent technical skill‘. Nicolas Journeaux is also well regarded.

Employment

Within Employment, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

Litigator John Kelleher heads Carey Olsen’s employment team, which advised SandpiperCI Ltd on its defence of an unfair dismissal claim. It also handles non-contentious work, including a significant amount of pensions-related advice, and delivers the ‘highest standards of service throughout‘.

Investment funds

Within Investment funds, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

Carey Olsen’s ‘high-end‘ team, which was boosted by the hire of an associate from Mourant du Feu & Jeune, is headed by Eve Kosofsky, whom client praise for her specialist funds knowledge. She advised new client Activum SG on the establishment of three parallel Jersey limited partnerships. Finance partner Edward Quinn is also very active in the funds practice.

Jersey Overview

Within Overview ,

The other three members of the Jersey ‘Big Four’ are Bedell Cristin, with offices in Guernsey, London, Dublin and Geneva; Carey Olsen, which keeps its practice local to the Channel Islands but has a London office and a substantial client base from the City, the Middle East, China, India and Brazil; and Ogier, which has a strong BVI and Guernsey presence.

Private client, trusts and tax

Within Private clients, trusts and tax, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

Carey Olsen’s ‘excellent‘ head of trusts Paul Matthams has great stature in the market. The ‘first-class‘ team - which also handles major international probate work - won a tender to become legal adviser to the board of trustees of a significant public sector pension scheme. Robert MacRae is active in trust litigation.

Structured finance and securitisation

Within Structured finance and securitisation, Carey Olsen is a first tier firm,

At Carey Olsen, the ‘impressive‘ Alex Ohlsson has been advising Deutsche Bank AG as arranger in connection with the issue by a Jersey issuer of limited recourse secured credit-linked exchangeable bonds. Alan Stevens heads the team.

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  • A Guide to Funds and Private Equity in Guernsey

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    - Carey Olsen

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  • Landlord & Tenant Briefing

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    - Bircham Dyson Bell LLP

  • 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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