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Alasdair Davidson
Work Department
- Insolvency & Restructuring
- International Private Client
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Wills & Probate
Position
Alasdair is a partner and the head of the litigation team and the international private client practice in Guernsey. He has been in practice for over 25 years and, before qualifying in Guernsey, not only practised as a barrister in England but also spent several years working in the Caribbean. He is instructed by law firms and institutional clients based worldwide and has acted for most of Guernsey’s leading fiduciaries, fund providers and banks.
Alasdair has a genuine depth of experience having handled a great variety of contentious and non-contentious matters covering most corporate, insolvency and fiduciary fields including appearing before a wide variety of courts and tribunals worldwide. He has particular expertise and established track record in conducting complex high value cross-border work both in Guernsey and the BVI.
Alasdair is also a Guernsey Notary Public.
Career
Called 1992; chambers in Birmingham; Turks and Caicos Islands firm 1996; associate partner Cobbetts LLP (then Lee Crowder) 1999; returned to Caribbean 2002; associate partner Howes Percival LLP 2005; moved to Guernsey 2007, qualified as an advocate of the Royal Court 2010; joined Bedell Cristin as partner in the Guernsey office 2010.
Languages
French.
Memberships
- Advocate – Guernsey
- Notary Public – Guernsey
- Barrister – England & Wales
- Barrister – British Virgin Islands
- Attorney-at-law – Turks and Caicos Islands (non-practising)
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
- STEP (Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners) Member
- Chancery Bar Association (full member)
- INSOL International, Insolvency Lawyers Association
Education
St Ambrose College, Cheshire (1981-88); University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1988-1991 Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons)); Inns of Court School of Law (1991-92 Bar Vocational Course); Université de Caen Basse Normandie (2009 Certificat d’études juridiques françaises et normandes).
Lawyer Rankings
Guernsey > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)Bedell Cristin has a broad practice spanning contentious trusts and insolvency, commercial litigation, fraud and asset tracing, and contentious regulatory matters. The group is led by Alasdair Davidson , a commercial litigator with additional experience in professional negligence cases. Jon Barclay regularly appears before the Guernsey courts, with a specialism in financial services litigation. Robert Fullman, who joined from Babbé LLP in December 2021, brought with him substantial experience in commercial and asset enforcement work.
Foreign-based expertise > Leading firms
(Leading Individuals)With expertise spread across markets in the UK and the Asia Pacific region, Bedell Cristin‘s Caribbean-focused practitioners take a one-team approach and cover the full spectrum of mandates, ranging from corporate and finance work to commercial litigation to private client issues and trust and estate matters. The group fields multiple names admitted to practise in both Cayman and the BVI and leverages their experience practising on the ground in the Caribbean.
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- UK
- Asia Pacific