Carey Olsen

Sam Alder

Sam is an associate in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Sam specialises in a broad range of private client matters, including trusts, estate planning, wills, powers of attorney, and the administration of estates, often with a cross-border element.

Annette Alexander

Annette advises on a broad range of corporate matters with a particular emphasis on the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds, regulatory compliance, capital markets and banking and finance. She advises on the formation of all types of alternative investment funds, including private equity funds, listed funds, hedge funds, sustainable investment funds and property funds as well as banking and finance transactions. Annette advises many of the largest fund promoters and financial institutions both locally and internationally. Annette arranges listings of investment funds, trading companies and bonds on The International Stock Exchange, including acting as sponsor (through Carey Olsen Corporate Finance Limited) and advising on compliance with the continuous obligations associated with a TISE listing.

Jasmine Amaria

Jasmine Amaria is the managing partner of Carey Olsen's London office and heads the Cayman and BVI investment funds, corporate and finance practice in London. Having practiced Cayman and BVI law since 2007, Jasmine has significant experience in investment funds and corporate and finance matters, including fund formation (hedge, private equity and venture capital funds), fund financing, structured finance, general corporate, commercial and finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures as well as group reorganisations and restructurings. She also has extensive experience advising investment and private equity funds on distressed situations. Jasmine regularly advises Indian conglomerates and clients making foreign investments into and from India.

Christopher Anderson

Christopher is an advocate with an outstanding reputation both in Guernsey and internationally. He has significant experience in investment funds, insurance and reinsurance and protected and incorporated cell companies. Christopher has built a strong reputation in private equity having advised some of the world’s largest private equity houses as well as new fund promoters in connection with fund establishment, investment structuring, exits and regulatory issues. He has also advised the insurance and reinsurance sector for almost 25 years and has been recognised as one of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers in Expert Guides since 2004. He is also consistently listed in the International Who's Who Legal of Private Funds Lawyers.

Elliot Aron

Elliot is an advocate and counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation group. He advises international and local clients on a wide range of contentious matters, specialising in complex and high-value commercial and trust disputes. Elliot is an experienced litigator in both domestic and foreign courts and has worked extensively on cases with challenging international and cross-border elements.

Laila Arstall

Laila has extensive experience in the formation and administration of trusts, companies and partnerships, and with dealing with issues of data protection and confidentiality. Since moving to Guernsey from Singapore, Laila has developed considerable experience in matters of taxation under Guernsey law and practice and has advised on tax issues relating to the structuring of offshore pension arrangements, employee incentive schemes, as well the use of structures for commercial purposes, including private equity and collective investment arrangements. Laila's experience includes providing advice in relation to the EU Savings Directive and its implications for trustees, financial institutions and beneficiaries; dealing with requests for information pursuant to Tax Information Exchange Agreements and advising both private client and industry representative bodies on changes to Guernsey's tax law and practice in 2012 in response to developments in the UK's treatment of QROPs. Laila has contributed on matters of tax and substance to a number of Working Parties established by industry to assist on consultation with the States of Guernsey on matters of taxation, tax compliance and substance requirements. Laila is also a member of the Statement of Practice Working Group, the CARF & CRS Working Group, the FATCA Working Group, the CRS Expert Group and the DTA Working Group established by the States of Guernsey's Revenue Service to assist with the development of guidance on matters of tax, tax compliance and substance requirements. Laila has written numerous commentaries and is a regular contributor of articles and chapters on Guernsey's tax regime for a number of publications, including for Sweet & Maxwell's European Cross-Border Estate Planning; Thomson Reuter's The European Lawyer Reference Series - Private Client Tax, Bloomberg's Global Tax Guide and the LexisNexis Guide to FATCA Compliance.

Charissa Ball

Charissa Ball is counsel in the corporate and finance team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. Charissa advises on all aspects of commercial and corporate law and regularly represents clients on a wide variety of local and cross-jurisdictional corporate and regulatory transactions and restructurings. With a practice spanning a number of specialisations, Charissa has particular experience in corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring, redomiciling, joint ventures and debt and equity offerings. She also has considerable experience in corporate finance including IPOs, private equity investments and banking and financial services including, financial derivatives, credit and security. Charissa is also a senior member of the Carey Olsen fintech team. She has assisted numerous digital asset business companies by advising on the licensing and ongoing regulatory requirements of digital asset companies, including the requirements of Bermuda's anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing and sanctions regimes.

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Khayl'La is an associate in the corporate team of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. She advises on a wide range of Bermuda general corporate matters.

Tim Bamford

Tim is partner and advocate in the dispute resolution and litigation group specialising in corporate and commercial litigation. Tim has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of corporate and commercial disputes with a particular focus on complex commercial litigation, banking and finance disputes, contractual claims, company disputes and trust litigation. Other areas of experience include corporate restructuring and insolvency, regulatory advice and alternative dispute resolution, in particular mediation. Tim is registered with the Guernsey Intellectual Property Office as a Trade Mark and Design Rights Intellectual Property agent. Tim is also member of the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES) and the Guernsey International Legal Association (GILA).

Holly Barber Collis

Holly is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. She advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate, finance and commercial law. Holly has acted for local and international corporate and financial institutions, insurance companies, funds, private equity houses and digital asset businesses on local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, debt financings and equity capital raises, licensing and regulatory matters. Holly is also a key member of the Carey Olsen liquidations team. She has experience advising clients in sectors including banking, crypto and blockchain, fintech and regtech, government and public sector, insurance, investment and wealth management and private equity. Holly is a proud member of the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Carey Olsen Bermuda's Women's Network.

Mahogany Bean

Mahogany is an associate with Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited, working in the dispute resolution and litigation team. Mahogany has developed a broad practice within the dispute resolution and litigation department taking a key interest in government and public sector work, regulatory and general civil and commercial matters.

Stephanie Bernard

Stephanie Bernard TEP is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda. Stephanie has extensive and in-depth experience advising individuals, fiduciaries and companies on all aspects of trust law including international and local estate planning arrangements, wealth management structures, variation of trusts and private trust companies, as well as international and local pensions. Stephanie also advises on regulatory issues impacting on trustees and pension plans.

Janice Bok

Janice is a senior associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen's Hong Kong office. She advises on a range of investment fund and corporate matters, including cross-border M&A projects, global reorganisations, and fund formation. Janice also advises funds and other financial services providers on global regulatory requirements and reporting obligations, including but not limited to: registration/authorisation/licensing requirements, marketing restrictions, shareholding disclosure, climate-related requirements, AML issues, and other regulatory risk management (including data privacy, data storage and outsourcing issues). She has handled regulatory investigations on anti-competitive behaviour, market abuse, financial and non-financial misconduct, transaction reporting breaches, and general commercial litigation. With her full professional proficiency in Japanese, Janice has experience reviewing Japanese legal and regulatory documents and handling business relationships with large Japanese banks, securities firms, and insurance firms.

Andrew Boyce

Andrew is a partner in the corporate and finance team and is recognised both locally and internationally for investment and finance transactions across all entity types. Andrew has specialist experience in the structuring and establishment of open and closed-ended investment funds and the credit and structured finance products related to them. In particular he has built an enviable reputation in his core expertise of private equity fund formation having advised a range of global investment houses as well as new managers on fund establishment, investment structuring, asset acquisitions and disposals and regulatory issues. Andrew's banking and finance expertise compliments his investment funds core practice and covers a range of credit types including capital call facilities, leveraged financing and asset finance. He has acted for global banking institutions and alternative credit providers as well as institutional borrowers. Andrew is instructed by leading UK, European and international law firms and financial institutions, and is recognised by global legal directories and publications. As a qualified British Virgin Islands lawyer Andrew also advises on the above in relation to British Virgin Islands law from his base in Guernsey.

Siobhan Boys

Siobhan is an associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and ligation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. She has experience acting for a broad spectrum of clients in commercial litigation in the funds management, financial services, commercial property, trusts, regulatory and corporate fields.

Matthew Brehaut

Matt is a partner in the corporate team in Carey Olsen’s London office. He advises on corporate and investment funds matters, with particular experience in the structuring and launch of investment funds. Matt provides funds, fund service providers and fund promoters with advice on all aspects of the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds.

Richard Brown

Richard is a dispute resolution and litigation partner based in our British Virgin Islands office. Richard's practise encompasses all aspects of BVI commercial disputes, but with a focus on insolvency, fraud and asset recovery, shareholder disputes and contentious trust matters. Richard is also able to advise clients facing investigations by the BVI's International Tax Authority and other contentious regulatory matters. Richard has particular experience of cases which raise complex jurisdictional issues and where proceedings are on foot in several jurisdictions. He regularly obtains interlocutory relief such as freezing injunctions, and also assists clients in resisting and overturning such orders. Richard's location in London enables him to advise clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from a convenient time zone, and he works closely with the BVI-based litigation team to provide a seamless service to clients. Richard has a track record of successfully representing clients before the BVI Commercial Court and the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, and where appropriate negotiating favourable settlements to avoid litigation.

Nick Bullmore

Nick Bullmore advises on and has significant experience in all aspects of Cayman Islands corporate law with a particular emphasis on investment funds (including fund financings), insurance and re-insurance, structured finance (including CLOs), joint ventures and general corporate and commercial matters. He also advises family offices and UHNWIs on the structuring, governance and regulation of family offices and private investment structures, as well as providing advice on the practical and legal aspects of physically relocating UHNWIs and their families to the Cayman Islands.

Joanna Caen

Joanna is a counsel in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. Joanna has spent her whole career assisting families, individuals, trustees and other professionals serving high and ultra-high net worth families with asset planning, philanthropy, family company structures, dispute resolution and, increasingly, mental capacity issues. She has worked in New Zealand and Hong Kong before joining our team in Guernsey. Joanna qualified in New Zealand in 2007 and Hong Kong in 2016.

Bernadette Carey

Bernadette is the head of our Cayman Islands trusts and private wealth team and has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. She also has significant experience in trust litigation, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust disputes, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes. Bernadette regularly advises high net worth individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, executors, wealth managers, institutional clients, and onshore legal teams on all aspects of trusts and estates law in the Cayman Islands. She is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only and is highly selective. All members must have practiced law in the Academy's areas of interest for at least ten years and must have distinguished themselves through lecturing, writing or participation in professional organizations. They must also have demonstrated a significant interest in the continuing development of the law of their own countries. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client texts, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". Bernadette is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC), and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). She is a director of the Cayman Islands Family Office Association, launched in 2022. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client text books, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". She is also ranked highly by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, features in the 2025 Private Client Global Elite Directory, and was named Top Recommended in the Trusts, Structuring & Offshore category of the 2025 Spear's 500 rankings.

Tom Carey

Tom is a partner is the corporate and finance team. He advises clients both locally and internationally on a wide variety of corporate transactions including private equity, investment funds and restructurings. Tom acts for asset managers, banks and fund promoters on the structuring and establishment of closed-ended and open-ended collective investment schemes. He also advises on corporate transactions including insolvency and restructuring as well as banking and real estate finance. He specialises in permanent capital vehicles, CISE, AIM and Main Market listings as well as all aspects of private equity. Tom was listed in the ‘International Who’s Who of Funds Lawyers’ 2014.

Daniella Carrazana

Daniella is an associate in the corporate group in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. Daniella is experienced in corporate finance work and general corporate matters including company formation, regulatory and corporate governance and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Brian Catalano

Brian is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He maintains a broad general commercial litigation practice. Brian has experience prosecuting and defending complex contractual, shareholder, and construction disputes, oppression and fraud claims, and insurance-related litigation. He has successfully resolved matters for clients through settlement, mediations, summary judgment applications, and at trial.

Nicole Cavanagh

Nicole Cavanagh TEP is counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation practice at Carey Olsen in Bermuda. Nicole’s practice covers the full spectrum of matrimonial law, including divorce, separation, and ancillary relief. She has a particular focus on the intersection of trusts and divorce, advising high-net-worth clients and business families on asset protection and global wealth distribution. Her international background allows her to navigate the commercial complexities of matrimonial assets with precision. She has two decades of experience working in family and matrimonial law and is widely recognised for her expertise in resolving high-stakes financial disputes and complex child-related matters with a focus on cost-effective, pragmatic outcomes. Nicole is dedicated to reducing the impact of family breakdowns on children, ensuring a clear legal strategy is established from the outset to foster sustainable long-term solutions and reduce conflict in the future.

Lizzie Chamberlain

Lizzie acts for a varied client base on both the lender and borrower side of a range of debt finance transactions including real estate investment and development finance, investment funds financing and general corporate facilities. Lizzie supports her clients with deal structuring, acquisitions, refinancing and debt restructuring.

Nicolas Champ

Nicolas Champ is a senior associate in Carey Olsen’s Bermuda corporate and finance team. He advises on corporate, finance, insurance and regulatory matters, with particular expertise in insurance-linked securities (ILS), corporate restructurings and lending transactions. Nicolas brings more than 20 years of international experience and is recognised for his pragmatic approach and ability to deliver clarity on complex financial structures. He joined Carey Olsen in 2025, bringing a commitment to excellence, collaboration and client-focused practice.

Sukhvinder Chana

Sukhvinder is a senior associate in the corporate and finance group. Sukhvinder advises on a broad range of finance and corporate matters in Guernsey with a focus on real estate finance, acquisition finance and structured finance. On the corporate side, Sukhvinder advises on acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructurings, amalgamations and migrations as well as advising on the regulatory laws underpinning these transactions. Sukhvinder also advises on local law financings acting as lead Guernsey counsel and regularly advises foreign banks on the Guernsey regulatory regime applicable to the promotion of goods and services in Guernsey.

Eng How Cheow

Eng How is a member of the corporate practice based in Singapore. His areas of expertise span general corporate matters, banking and finance, as well as fintech, cryptocurrency and digital assets. For general corporate matters, he advises on a wide range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements as well as regulatory and compliance matters. For banking and finance, he acts for both financial institutions (as lenders, agents and MLAs) and corporations (as borrowers) on acquisition financing, real estate financing, syndicated financing as well as secured and unsecured general corporate financing. Last, in relation to fintech and digital assets, he advices on the setting up digital assets related structures, token issuance, early stage fund raising, and assists with Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASP) applications.

Yan Chng

Yan Chng is a senior associate in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has experience advising and acting for listed corporations, individuals, directors, shareholders and liquidators in complex commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings, involving breach of fiduciary duties, misappropriation, conspiracy, trust disputes, minority oppression and unfair preference claims.

Russell Clark

Russell Clark heads up the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. He advises on both contentious and non-contentious trust and private wealth matters. He also advises private clients on succession, estate planning and family governance. Russell was elected as a member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL) and is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), having previously been Chairman of the STEP Guernsey Branch Technical Committee and a Branch Committee member for 18 years. Russell is listed as a Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal for Private Client. Russell is also a Notary Public and advises on Guernsey, Alderney and Sark law. Russell is the only Guernsey lawyer to be ranked in the 'Hall of Fame' in the Legal 500 UK and is a Band One practitioner for Guernsey in Chambers HNW Guide in their latest editions. He is also featured in the Private Client Global Elite Directory, a respected global directory of the world's top private client and trust and estates litigation talent.

Nina Clift

Nina is a senior associate within the trusts and private wealth group and advises high net worth clients and trustees with regard to the establishment and administration of offshore trusts. Nina deals with all aspects of fiduciary law and provides advice on contentious and non-contentious trust and probate matters. She also prepares wills and advises on wealth planning and estate administration for local and international clients.

Adam Collieson

Adam Collieson is head of the property department in Bermuda. Adam’s core practice is focused on commercial and residential real estate transactions where he has extensive experience advising both international and domestic clients on a wide range of complex property issues. Adam has a reputation for providing his clients with clear and considered advice.

Alexander Collis

Alex is a partner in the corporate and finance team of Carey Olsen in Bermuda and advises on all aspects of corporate and finance transactions. Alex advises on the structuring, negotiation and execution of complex corporate, finance and regulatory transactions across a range of sectors, with a particular emphasis on insurance. He also advises on Bermuda’s corporate income tax regime and economic substance requirements, guiding clients through the jurisdiction’s evolving regulatory landscape and cross-border compliance obligations.

Thomas Connor

Tom is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. He advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and finance law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, corporate restructuring, corporate governance and financing rounds. Tom has experience advising clients in a variety of sectors including insurance, sport, media & entertainment, banking and technology.

Tim Corfield

Tim is an Advocate and a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team. He has twenty-five years' experience in trial and litigation advisory work, representing clients in high value, high-stakes and reputationally significant cases, many involving multiple jurisdictions working alongside other international law firms. His practice spans the breadth of corporate and company law disputes, contentious corporate transactional matters, banking and financial services litigation, funds disputes, shareholder disputes and derivative and unfair prejudice claims, as well as trusts disputes and general commercial litigation. He also has significant experience in the fields of corporate insolvency, acting in various claims arising from the collapses of Enron, Madoff, Stanford and Lehman Brothers. He often represents boards of directors and other fiduciaries, such as trustees, in all manner of crises, often in contentious and regulatory matters as part of his board advisory practice, assisting on commercially and financially sensitive or complex transactions and investigations, breach of duty and breach of trust claims. Tim has also devoted time to various pro bono activities, including in cases dealing with: opposition to the death penalty – successfully as amicus curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Carman L. Deck v. State of Missouri No. 04-5293, Citation 544 U.S. 622, viz. the constitutionality of shackling a prisoner during the sentencing phase of a trial (Deck was finally executed in May 2022); racism and discrimination; and representing the family of Baby Jack at the inquest into his death at Princess Elizabeth Hospital in January 2014.

Emily Cornhill

Emily is a partner in Carey Olsen’s corporate team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on investment funds. Emily regularly advises on the establishment of investment funds in the Cayman Islands and also advises investment funds and other vehicles on transactional, financing and compliance matters.

Charlotte Crang

Charlotte is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions.

David Crosland

David is partner in Carey Olsen's Corporate team. David undertakes a wide range of corporate transactions with a particular experience in the launch of investment funds. He is regularly instructed by fund managers, UK and international law firms and other financial services firms on the launch, administration, restructuring and listing of both closed and open-ended investment funds. As well as private funds, David has advised funds that are listed on the LSE, AIM, Euronext and TISE.

Ella Crowley-Burrows

Ella is an associate in the corporate team of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of banking and finance matters including fund finance, structured finance, asset finance and loans of stablecoins and other digital assets.

Jasmin Davies

Jasmin is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution, insolvency and trusts and private wealth teams in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of commercial and financial services litigation, liquidations, cross-border restructuring procedures including schemes of arrangement and trusts disputes having appeared before the Courts in a number of jurisdictions. Her clients include companies (and their officers, members and creditors), insolvency practitioners, trustees as well as HNW individuals and families. She is an active member of INSOL/RISA, IWIRC and STEP. Jasmin has been recognised by eprivateclient's Top 35 Under 35, Citywealth's Future Leaders list and was a finalist for STEP's Young Practitioner of the Year award. She has been invited to speak at seminars and conferences in the UK and internationally. Jasmin is also a bilingual German speaker.

Sam Dawson

Sam is the managing partner of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office, and the head of its dispute resolution and insolvency and restructuring practice. He has over 20 years' experience litigating high value commercial disputes with a primary focus on the financial services sector. Sam has particular expertise in the fields of: shareholder disputes; merger appraisal litigation; insolvency and restructuring; and contentious employment matters

Rachel de la Haye

Rachel is a partner in the corporate and finance team, advising on a wide range of corporate matters with particular emphasis on investment funds and financing. Rachel has a particularly keen interest in the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds as well as on general corporate and regulatory issues and banking and financing transactions.

Mark Dehaini

Mark is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He specialises in fintech and digital assets, with a background in financial services and fintech regulation. Mark advises on structuring and regulatory advice, including token issuances, crypto-payment and lending facilities, early-stage fundraising, DeFi protocols, decentralised autonomous organisations, centralised and decentralised exchanges, wallet providers, VC funds, and NFT and gaming platforms. In addition, Mark advises in the regulated sector in connection with registration and licensing applications under the Cayman Islands VASP regime. Mark is an accomplished speaker and writer, covering several topics in the financial services and fintech industry.

Charlotte Donnelly

Charlotte is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Charlotte has acted for large pension funds, telecommunication operators and high-net-worth individuals in arbitrations and injunctions. Charlotte has experience in telecoms and property related commercial disputes in the English High Court and Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) where she has secured successful outcomes for her clients. She has also advised on a range of settlements agreements in relation to landlord and tenant disputes.

Mark Dowds

Mark acts in a broad range of disputes across various sectors (notably private equity and financial services, aviation, energy and sports), with a particular focus on insolvency and investment valuations. His work almost always encompasses cross-jurisdictional elements, and he is often involved in global disputes proceeding in various forums around the world, both as global co-ordinating counsel and local Cayman Islands counsel. He has particular expertise co-ordinating global documentary discovery efforts, including in hostile jurisdictions such as the PRC. Mark is currently engaged in several billion-dollar investment valuation cases which are proceeding before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Aleeza Dulaney

Aleeza is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. She advises on all aspects of corporate and finance transactions. Aleeza has notable experience in securitisation, debt capital markets, corporate finance, property finance and asset finance. She has acted for a range of clients, including international corporate and financial institutions, sponsors, arrangers, facility providers and investors.

Matthew Dulaney

Matthew is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. He advises on all aspects of Bermuda commercial and corporate law, including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, investments fund and related regulations.

Chris Duncan

Chris Duncan is a partner in the corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He leads Carey Olsen's fintech and digital assets group across both the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, being one of the few Cayman and BVI dual qualified advisors in the fintech space. Chris advises clients on the full spectrum of fintech, crypto and digital assets matters, including, structuring and regulatory advice in connection with decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs), token issuances and early stage fundraising, centralised and decentralised exchanges, wallet providers and VC funds, NFT and gaming platforms and miningstaking operations. In addition, Chris advises clients in the regulated sector in connection with applications under both the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands VASP regimes. With a background in regulatory and tax investigations, Chris also regularly helps clients navigate requests and investigations from local and foreign regulators and authorities, leaning on his regulatory investigations background. Chris has published numerous articles and regularly speaks on panels, webinars and podcasts on all things fintech, crypto and web3. Chris is ranked in Band 2 by Chambers & Partners FinTech and is noted as being "very familiar with the blockchain/Web3 space and developments in Cayman law"and "a very sophisticated and responsive lawyer."Chris was also recently recognised in the Citywealth Top 100 Crypto Advisors for 2022 as a highly accredited advisor. Chris is a registered Trusts and Estates practitioner, and has been recognised in the Citywealth Future Leaders List in 2021, the Top 100 Private Client Lawyers in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Citywealth Lawyer of the Year (IFC) – Senior/Managing Associate category for 2020. Chris is ranked in the Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide with sources noting "he can navigate through matters seamlessly" and that he is "very commercial in his thinking". Chris regularly works on the most innovative and highest profile projects including: The formation of Cayman Islands foundation companies used in conjunction with decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and decentralised projects. Advising institutional stablecoin provider on non-custodial wallet offering under Cayman and BVI law Providing structuring and regulatory advice across the Cayman Islands and the BVI in relation the full spectrum of fintech and digital assets matters, from to private and public token sales and protocol launches to centralised and decentralised exchanges. Advising clients on the implications of the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands Virtual Assets Service Providers Acts and providing assistance with applications for registration under the same, including in connection with novel decentralised finance applications. Assisting Jambo on their significant Series A financing round. Advising clients subject to information requests and enforcement notices and assisting with compliance connected to the same. Advising on a significant pre-IPO restructuring of various Cayman Islands trusts and BVI companies in advance of multi-billion dollar IPO. The creation of a variety of private wealth structures to hold and invest crypto and digital assets.

Mark Dunster

Mark is a partner specialising in litigation, compliance and financial regulatory matters. He undertakes a wide variety of commercial and civil litigation including insolvency work. He also advises institutions on regulatory matters including anti-money laundering, data protection, employment law, eGaming and renewable energy. He is an author of books on anti-money laundering and data protection. Mark holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals "Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe" qualification as part of his data protection practice. He is the former Chairman of the Guernsey Association of Compliance Officers and of the Guernsey Bar Association, known as Bâtonnier. Mark is a current member of the States of Guernsey legislative review committee advising on the implementation and drafting of new laws and ordinances. Mark is also a tribunal member (that is judge) on various appeal tribunals including those on planning and social security legislation. He was also appointed as Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation by the Guernsey Bar.

Lydia Essa

Lydia is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey and acts for trustees, beneficiaries, protectors and family offices on all aspects of fiduciary law, both contentious and non-contentious.

Michelle Falcucci

Michelle is a partner in the corporate and finance team of Carey Olsen in Bermuda and advises on all aspects of commercial and corporate law, with a particular focus on the insurance and asset management sectors. Michelle has considerable experience advising on public and private mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, reinsurance transactions, regulatory matters, corporate governance issues, debt and equity capital markets transactions, and corporate restructurings and reorganizations.

Jarrod Farley

Jarrod is a partner in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. He advises on all corporate and commercial aspects of Cayman Islands law and regulation, with a particular emphasis on investment funds. Jarrod has considerable experience of advising on the establishment of both regulated and unregulated investment funds in the Cayman Islands and of advising investment funds and other vehicles on transactional, financing and compliance matters, including local business licensing.

Simon Florance

Simon is counsel to the dispute resolution and litigation team specialising in commercial litigation and regulatory matters. Simon’s experience and expertise encompasses a wide range of areas including complex contractual disputes, shareholder and investor actions, cross-border litigation, freezing orders, contentious banking and finance issues, and property and construction disputes. Simon also advises on regulatory matters including anti-money laundering, data protection, directors' duties and renewable energy.

Nessa Flynn

Nessa is a senior associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters as well as advising investment funds on transactional, financing and compliance matters. Nessa is also part of Carey Olsen's fintech and digital assets practice.

Konrad Friedlaender

Konrad is a consultant in the trusts and private wealth department and specialises in contentious and non-contentious trust matters, pensions, employee benefit schemes and share option schemes. He advises on the establishment and administration of complex private and corporate trust structures as well as all regulatory matters relevant to the trust and company administration sector. He has advised on the establishment and continues to be adviser to some of the largest endowments and philanthropies established on the island. Konrad also advises on the structuring and establishment of corporate vehicles and has a particular interest in non-contentious insurance matters and insurance regulation. He represents trustees, protectors and beneficiaries in various high value contentious trust matters aided by his extensive experience gained over 40 years of involvement in contentious matters. Konrad is listed as a Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal for Private Client.

Michael Frith

Michael Frith is Senior Counsel at Carey Olsen Bermuda, and Managing Director of the corporate services business. His legal practice focuses on all aspects of Bermuda corporate law, including all types of Bermuda corporate structures, equity and debt financings (public and private), IPOs. Michael has particular experience advising on the formation and ongoing regulatory and transactional requirements of all types of Bermuda corporate and insurance structures, Michael also has particular expertise in relation to Bermuda’s economic substance requirements, and has been a key advisor to the Bermuda Registrar of Companies and Ministry of Finance in relation the development and implementation of Bermuda’s economic substance legislation and related guidance.

Simon Galante

Simon Galante is an associate in the corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He specialises in fintech and digital assets, and has a background in international corporate, banking and finance matters. Simon advises clients on both the buy and sell side of the fintech, crypto and digital assets markets, including: structuring and regulatory advice in connection with token issuances and early-stage fundraising; DeFi protocols; decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs); centralised and decentralised exchanges; wallet providers; VC funds; NFT and gaming platforms; and mining staking (including re-staking and liquid re-staking) operations. In addition, Simon advises clients in the regulated sector in connection with applications under the Cayman Islands VASP regimes. Simon also advises on a broad range of cross-border Corporate, Banking and Financial Regulation matters, including debt capital markets, M&A, fund finance (PE and hedge funds), structured finance (including securitisations and CLOs) and derivatives. Simon is an accomplished public speaker in the finance industry, particularly in crypto and digital assets. He has also written articles on Capital Markets and the future of crypto assets.

Wendy Garrard

Wendy is counsel in the trusts and private wealth group and acts for trustees, beneficiaries and protectors in all aspects of fiduciary law and regulation, specialising in contentious and non-contentious trust proceedings before the Royal Court of Guernsey, including administrative applications by trustees for directions. Wendy has significant experience in advising on Guernsey, Jersey and UK non-contentious trusts, banking, corporate advisory, regulatory and compliance matters gained in her previous role as a senior in-house counsel with an international bank, and deals with all aspects of non-contentious trust and fiduciary work, including advising on complex trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising trustees in connection with the establishment and ongoing administration of trusts. Wendy is also noted as a Key Lawyer in Carey Olsen's trust team by Legal 500 UK. Wendy's memberships include the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and the Chancery Bar Association (ChBA).

Alex Gays

Alex is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. He advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, corporate governance and financing rounds. Alex has experience advising clients in a variety of sectors including fintech, media & entertainment, banking and technology.

Angela Gizzi

Angela is a senior associate in the BVI investment funds and corporate team. Angela advises on the full lifecycle of investment funds in the British Virgin Islands, from formation and licensing to maintenance, restructuring, and termination. She works with a broad range of fund types, including incubator, approved, professional, private, and public funds. Angela's work also includes extensive experience in advising clients in relation to management vehicles and preparing and submitting approved manager applications to the BVI Financial Services Commission. Angela's clients include investment funds, general partners and investment managers. Angela's practice includes a wide range of investment strategies and sectors, and includes particular expertise in funds operating digital asset strategies. Angela also helps clients on a range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and commercial contracts.

Elaine Gray

Elaine is partner and head of Carey Olsen's Guernsey dispute resolution and litigation team and is also deputy managing partner of Carey Olsen in Guernsey. She advises clients on commercial and trust litigation, and on employment, data protection, regulatory, competition and intellectual property matters. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in these fields and appears regularly in courts and tribunals at all levels in Guernsey. Elaine is immediate-past President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Chancery Bar Association. She was previously appointed to the Population Employment Advisory Panel as representative of Guernsey's financial service industry. Elaine was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation to the Guernsey Bar from 2018 to 2022. Elaine is a Certified International Privacy Professional (CIPP/E).

Matthew Grigg

Matthew is a partner in the corporate and finance practice of Carey Olsen in Bermuda and advises on all forms of corporate and finance transaction. In his finance practice Matthew advises cross sector clients, including banks, funds, corporates, investment managers, insurance companies and investors on matters relating to lending, structured finance, fund financing, asset finance, securitisation (including ILS and CLOs), debt capital markets, securities issuances, derivatives and restructuring, together with related regulatory and collateral advice. In his corporate practice Matthew advises on matters relating to incorporation and establishment, segregated accounts companies, corporate governance, equity issuances, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, listings, corporate reorganisations, regulatory compliance and licensing advice related to financial services, investment business, digital asset business, investment funds and fund management.

Vaishali Gupta

Vaishali specialises in banking and finance transactions. Her recent experience includes advising various corporate and financial institutions on structured finance and fund related finance transactions, as well as financial restructurings.

Harry Hadjiyannis

Harry is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate and finance practice, based in London. Harry advises on both BVI and Cayman corporate, banking and finance, igaming, digital asset, fintech and regulatory matters. Harry is admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI), England and Wales, and South Africa.

Graham Hall

Graham is a consultant for the corporate and finance group in Guernsey where he was previously head and senior partner until December 2016. He is among the most respected investment funds and finance lawyers internationally and has been in professional practice for over 25 years. Graham is instructed by the world's leading banks, financial sponsors, corporates and private fund clients, including private equity firms. His client portfolio also includes a broad range of listed entities. He has worked on many of the most significant investment funds, finance and wider corporate transactions to have involved Guernsey. Graham has been selected to advise the States of Guernsey and has contributed to much of Guernsey's company, tax and investment funds legislation during his career so far.

Sarah-Jane Hall

Sarah-Jane is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team, based in Guernsey. She acts for individuals, trustees, executors and family offices on a broad array of contentious and non-contentious private client matters. She has extensive experience providing guidance on the establishment, reorganisation, administration and termination of complex wealth planning structures. She also advises on wills and estate planning, and on probate and reseal applications. In addition, she has experience assisting clients seeking to obtain residency in the Cayman Islands. Sarah-Jane has advised on a number of trust disputes which include challenges to validity; variation; the removal of trustees; setting aside trustee decisions; advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; and advising trustees in relation to divorce.

Simon Hall

Simon Hall is a Partner in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation practice in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Simon moved to the BVI in 2015 and has significant BVI litigation experience. His caseload has primarily involved shareholder / director disputes, fraud and asset tracing, contentious trust and probate, and insolvency work. This has also included a wide array of interlocutory work including applications for freezing orders, prohibitory injunctions and the appointment of receivers. Simon has conducted litigation before the BVI Commercial Court, ECSC Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. He has acted for a wide range of clients including large financial institutions, high net worth individuals, insolvency practitioners and professional trustees. Simon also has considerable advocacy experience and regularly appears as lead and junior counsel before the BVI Commercial Court and ECSC Court of Appeal. He has conducted numerous trials in the BVI as well as interlocutory hearings (on and without notice), and interlocutory and final appeals. His recent cases include: Conducting a four week trial on behalf of two defendants to a derivative claim alleging breach of directors’ duties, dishonest assistance, conspiracy and unjust enrichment; Acting for a BVI shareholder in relation to unfair prejudice proceedings to prevent the compulsory redemption of a BVI minority shareholders' shares at an unfair price, including obtaining an interim injunction preventing the redemption; Conducting unfair prejudice proceedings on behalf of two defendant shareholders which proceeded to a three week trial in the BVI, a three day appeal before the Court of Appeal and which is now before the Privy Council; Acting for the defendant BVI company to a claim for rectification of the share register in circumstances where there were allegations of fraud; Conducting and advising on various sets of proceedings on behalf of a BVI shareholder, including as claimant on an application for the winding of a BVI company on just and equitable grounds, and advising as the funding creditor of litigation being conducted by appointed liquidator.

Alex Hall Taylor KC

Alex Hall Taylor is a barrister, King's Counsel, partner and head of Carey Olsen’s BVI Dispute Resolution and Litigation team. Alex has over 25 years' court experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution across a broad range of commercial, company, shareholder, trusts, insolvency, restructuring, civil fraud, asset tracing, security enforcement, tax, professional liability and fiduciary claims, arbitrations and mediations. He has extensive case management, interlocutory, trial and appellate advocacy experience including before the Privy Council. His practice is principally contentious, involving advocacy, tactical advice and strategic expertise in high value, complex, document heavy matters that are frequently multi-jurisdictional in nature. He is a CEDR-accredited mediator. Alex is ranked as a leading individual in BVI dispute resolution in the most recent editions of both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Global, where he is said to stand out for 'his knowledge, experience and responsiveness' and is described by market sources as 'an exceptionally bright, sensible litigator', 'fantastic' and a 'real delight to work with'. Alex regularly acts and advises on trusts and shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice claims, alleged breaches of trust or of shareholder agreements, rectification actions, minority squeeze-outs and just and equitable winding up applications as well as on fraud and asset tracing claims and regulatory, corporate investigation, anti-corruption and money-laundering assignments. Alex is often involved in seeking or defeating interim remedies such as injunctions, the appointment of receivers and Norwich Pharmacal relief, often on an urgent basis. He has acted as an expert witness on BVI law, practice and procedure in foreign proceedings. Recent BVI experience includes: Enforcement of arbitration award in the Unitel/Vidatel Angolan telecommunications dispute Obtaining discharge of an interim injunction obtained in support of Swiss arbitration proceedings in the medical imaging industry Acting for lead secured creditors in the billion $ restructuring of the Brazilian Constellation offshore drilling group, including first ever appointment of ‘light touch’ joint provisional liquidators in support of foreign restructuring Resisting unreasonable interference by BVI Receivers of BVI company in a Japanese listed subsidiary Liquidations and related applications and claims in connection with frauds by a former Sao Paolo mayor, including obtaining first reported BVI judgment on pooling related liquidations Advising trustees of long-established family trusts on allegations of breach of duty and potential application for removal by warring beneficiaries

Michael Hanson

Michael Hanson partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team of Carey Olsen Bermuda. His core practice is centred on human capital and regulatory law where he advises the largest insurance and reinsurance, banks and professional services businesses on the island. Michael has particular and significant expertise in multijurisdictional crisis management, corporate, employment and regulatory investigations, complex executive disputes and executive benefit and incentive programs. Michael also has a more general practice advising clients on commercial contract claims, reinsurance and coverage disputes and shareholder disputes. Michael is ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global and Legal 500 describing him as "highly rated", "very knowledgeable" and that "his responsiveness is unbelievable!".

Henry Harford

Henry joined Carey Olsen as a consultant in January 2016. Henry is an experienced Cayman Islands lawyer who was previously the head of Maples and Calder's global corporate practice.

Arya Hashemi

Arya is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate and finance team. Arya advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including joint ventures, private equity, group reorganisations and shareholder agreements. Arya also has extensive experience of advising clients on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, often involving multiple jurisdictions.

Tim Haynes

Tim has joined Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team in Hong Kong. Tim has over twenty years’ experience representing a wide range of Asia Pacific-based clients in all aspects of commercial dispute resolution, from corporate shareholders and liquidators to high-net-worth individuals. He advises on and litigates high value, cross-border management, shareholder, commercial, insolvency and corporate restructuring disputes, often with a connection to Hong Kong, under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. He is particularly skilled at handling high-stakes management and shareholder disputes and other contentious matters arising out of distressed corporate and investment vehicles. In addition to being a Chartered Arbitrator, Tim is an experienced advocate who has appeared in numerous cases before first instance and appellate courts and in arbitration.

Alexandra Hehir

Alex is a senior associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen’s London office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters.

Clinton Hempel

Clinton advises on a wide range of British Virgin Islands corporate and commercial law, including, financings and investment structures, takeovers, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and public and private equity transactions. Clinton also advises on BVI regulatory compliance and risk management.

Franz Hernandez

Franz is an associate in the corporate team in the Cayman Islands. His practice focuses on fintech and digital assets, supported by experience in investment funds and general corporate matters. He advises on the establishment, structuring, ongoing operations and regulatory aspects of a range of fintech and digital asset projects. His experience also includes assisting clients with regulatory compliance, including CIMA filings from a funds context. Franz is crypto‑native and has a strong interest in emerging technologies. He has advised blockchain ventures and decentralised projects on structuring, formation and launch strategies, and is familiar with the evolving regulatory landscape in the Cayman Islands.

Nicola Hopkins

Nicola works in Guernsey as part of the property team, advising on family law and private client matters. Nicola specialises in all aspects of family and private client law, including matrimonial matters such as divorce, judicial separation, division of family assets, adoption and issues pertaining to children. She is also an experienced family mediator and regularly assists separating couples or the wider family in seeking an amicable resolution of financial and child matters through the mediation forum.

Bradley Houlston

Bradley is counsel in the employment and immigration team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He has more than fourteen years' experience advising clients on the full range of employment matters and frequently represents clients in contentious employment proceedings in the Employment Tribunal, Supreme Court and in arbitration. Bradley has significant expertise in executive disputes, multijurisdictional investigations and the intersection of HR and regulatory issues. In addition to employment matters, Bradley advises on all aspects of Bermuda immigration law, both for corporate and individual clients. He also advises on data protection and privacy matters. Bradley has written frequently on employment and immigration law issues for the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce magazine and in the Royal Gazette. He is a member of the Bermuda Human Resources Association and the Employment Law Association (UK).

Shanshan Huang

Shanshan is counsel in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and insolvency practice, based in Hong Kong. She specialises in complex corporate and commercial litigation, shareholders' disputes, fraud, asset tracing and recovery, trust, and insolvency and restructuring matters, with a particular focus on representing China-based clients on their cross-border matters. Shanshan has over 15 years' experience representing major global financial institutions and corporations, and high-net-worth individuals on their most sensitive and complex commercial disputes in Asia. Shanshan is a native Mandarin speaker, and fluent in English and Cantonese.

David Jones

David is an advocate and head of the restructuring and insolvency team in Guernsey. He advises on complex restructurings and formal insolvencies in contentious, non-contentious and multi-jurisdictional matters. In his time with Carey Olsen David has been involved in many of the largest insolvencies involving Guernsey entities and global retailers. He is able to assist lenders in respect of the taking and enforcement of all forms of security. David regularly advises the boards of distressed entities and has extensive experience acting for office holders on all aspects of their appointments including the tracing and recovery of assets. David is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and R3 and sits on the young members Committee of INSOL International. David lectures on INSOL's Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency and is part of the working group tasked with updating and revising Guernsey's insolvency laws. He has also been appointed as a member of Guernsey's first ever Insolvency Rules Committee (IRC). David is listed in Who's Who Legal for Restructuring & Insolvency and Asset Recovery and is ranked in Chambers Global and The Legal 500 2024 editions. Clients say that David is "the best person in Guernsey for insolvency and restructuring work" and "He is a thought-leader in the industry, He's a very good advocate and comes up with innovative solutions to issues."

Rachel Jones

Rachel is a senior associate in the property team specialising in planning law. She advises public and private sector clients on (often complex) contentious and non-contentious planning matters. Her practice encompasses assisting clients with complex planning applications and appeals, judicial review proceedings, development plan inquiries, enforcement matters and planning agreements. Rachel also advises both landlords and tenants on a wide range of commercial property matters including the leasing of commercial property, dilapidations and also advising on property aspects of corporate transactions (many multi-jurisdictional).

Christy Kan

Christy is an associate in the corporate team in Carey Olsen's Hong Kong office. She advises on a range of investment fund and corporate matters. Christy is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Natasha Kapp

Natasha Kapp is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth group in Guernsey. Natasha deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious trust matters. She advises professional trustees, family offices and ultra high net worth families and individuals on the establishment, administration and restructuring of complex trusts and foundations and underlying structures. She has acted on the establishment of and continues to advise some of the largest family offices and philanthropies established on the Island. Natasha also advises on insurance regulation. She regularly appears before the Royal Court of Guernsey in trust administration proceedings including applications regarding the interpretation of trust powers, the variation of trusts, the doctrine of mistake, the application of the Rule In Hastings Bass, Beddoe applications, rectification and the blessing of momentous decisions. Natasha is a regular contributor to law and industry journals and is the author of the Guernsey chapters in Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions and Private Foundations - A World Review. She is ranked as a leading individual for Private Client, Trusts and Tax, in Guernsey in the Legal 500 and is also ranked in the Chambers UK, Global and HNW Guides. Natasha is listed by Who's Who Legal for Private Client and also features in the Private Client Global Elite Directory, a respected global directory of the world's top private client and trust and estates litigation talent.

Tom Katsaros

Tom is principal - head of funds, Singapore specialising in the establishment, structuring and maintenance of offshore private equity funds and hedge funds. He is one of the only two partner-level offshore funds practitioners in Singapore to be admitted in the Cayman Islands. In addition to acting for large financial institutions and investment funds sponsors, boutique and start-up investment managers, Tom also advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and financing transactions. Tom is recognised as a Leading Individual in The Legal 500 Asia 2023 Guide and as a global leader in the 2022 and 2023 editions of Who's Who Legal: Private Funds.

Laura Kearns

Laura Kearns TEP is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Laura has significant experience advising on all aspects of private client work. Laura's practice in the UK was focussed on lifetime and succession planning for individuals and families, often with an international element to their affairs. This included advising on complex trusts and estates, the preparation of Wills and mental capacity issues.

Joni Khoo

Joni is a member of the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder/director litigation, corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing, and cross-border and restructuring matters. She also regularly advises on interim measures in support of onshore litigation, tools to obtain information about assets/directors/shareholders, and the recognition/enforcement of orders and awards.

Elizabeth Killeen

Elizabeth is a partner in the firm's corporate and finance practice. She qualified as a lawyer in London before moving to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in 2008, where she began to specialise in BVI law. Elizabeth has a broad range of experience in corporate, commercial and financial transactions. She advises on cross-border debt and equity financing, joint venture arrangements, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, aircraft and other asset financing, continuations in and out of the BVI, corporate governance, corporate reorganisations, directors' duties and voluntary liquidations. She also advises clients on regulatory compliance in the BVI and structuring, forming and maintaining regulated investment funds.

Kate Lan

Kate is counsel in the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. Her main area of practice includes commercial and shareholders’ disputes, trust and estate disputes, and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is qualified to practise in Singapore, England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands, and is a Registered Associate in Bermuda. Kate has extensive experience advising clients across a broad spectrum of cross-border litigation and international arbitration matters. She has been appointed as arbitrator by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and is a member of SIAC’s Reserve Panel of Arbitrators. She is also the first offshore lawyer selected to serve as one of the three Regional Leads for APAC on the Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC) Council. She is the only Regional Lead based in Singapore. In addition to her work as a disputes practitioner, Kate is part of the core team who is involved in putting together a textbook on "Commercial Litigation and Enforcement" which is published by The Global Legal Post. She is also a contributing author to two editions of Arbitration in Singapore: A Practical Guide (edited by The Honourable the Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon), and the first reference guide to investment protection in the ASEAN region – Investment Protection in Southeast Asia: A Country-by-Country Guide on Arbitration Laws and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Kate is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese and conversant in basic Bahasa Indonesia and Japanese. She is also an active member of INSOL, IWIRC and IPAS.

Tony Lane

Tony advises on all aspects of corporate law in Guernsey, with a particular focus on transformative corporate transactions including private mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, schemes of arrangement, stock exchange listings, equity investments and joint ventures. Tony also advises on issues of corporate governance, shareholder rights and the conduct of regulated business in Guernsey, and advises on the establishment, management and regulation of investment funds in Guernsey, as well as the establishment of private investment structures. Tony arranges listings of investment funds, trading companies and bonds on The International Stock Exchange, including acting as sponsor (through Carey Olsen Corporate Finance Limited) and advising on compliance with the continuous obligations associated with a TISE listing.

Karen Le Cras

Karen is a partner and general counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation Group in Guernsey. She specialises in corporate and commercial disputes, with a particular emphasis on banking, finance and trusts litigation and asset tracing and freezing orders. Karen also frequently advises companies, shareholders and directors in relation to corporate insolvency matters, and banks on enforcement of security. Karen also advises in relation to regulatory matters, including regulatory investigations. Karen has wide advocacy experience and appears frequently before the Guernsey Courts. Karen's work often involves cross-border and conflicts of law issues. Karen's clients include local trust companies and retail banks, private companies, international investment banks, insurers and accountants. Karen is frequently instructed by leading law firms, both in the UK and elsewhere. Karen is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Experts and the Institute of Directors. Karen is listed in Who's Who Legal for Commercial Litigation, Private Client and Asset Recovery.

Davey Le Marquand

Davey is a partner in the property department and advises on private client issues with particular expertise on property related matters including inheritance, estate and wealth management and Guernsey business matters. Davey has extensive experience of all types of Guernsey property matters covering both residential and commercial property and on taking security over real property in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Davey continues to develop a large local personal client base and regularly lectures on property and private client matters to local institutions and individuals. He also has a large notarial practice providing notarial services to a wide network of institutional and private clients.

Calvin Lee

Calvin is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate and finance team in Hong Kong. He has broad experience across a range of corporate finance, IPO and equity capital markets, M&A, and other general commercial matters. He also advises on a broad range of debt arrangements, including acquisition, leveraged and real estate financing, structured products, bond issuances, and debt restructuring.

Kimberley Leng

Kimberley is a counsel in our Hong Kong Dispute Resolution and Insolvency team. Her practice is focused on cross-border restructuring and insolvency, as well as commercial dispute resolution, in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. She has particular experience in applications for the appointment of “soft touch” or “light touch” provisional liquidators, cross-border restructurings, and has acted for liquidators on an extensive range of matters arising out of liquidations (both compulsory and voluntary), including those requiring the recognition of foreign appointed liquidators. In addition, she has a broad range of experience in offshore commercial litigation matters. She has acted in high-value and complex commercial disputes involving, inter alia, fraud, breaches of directors’ duties, fund disputes, shareholder disputes, and minority dissent proceedings.

Kardia Leung

Kardia is an associate in the corporate team, based in Carey Olsen’s Cayman Islands office. She advises on a wide range of corporate and corporate finance matters, with particular expertise in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, continuations, venture capital and private equity transactions.

Jiaqi Lin

Jiaqi is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate and investment funds matters.

Katrina Lindsay

Katrina advises on a broad range of funds, corporate finance and real estate finance matters. During her three years at the Carey Olsen Jersey office, she has acted on a number of high-profile transactions, including the establishment of the largest real estate fund to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. In addition to working with global financial institutions and leading international law firms, Katrina also worked closely with local businesses, advising on various matters relating to Jersey property unit trusts, limited partnerships and protected or incorporated cell companies. Katrina relocated to the Carey Olsen BVI office in 2016 and has developed a diverse practice in advising clients from around the globe on BVI corporate, financing, security enforcement, restructuring, insolvency and regulatory matters.

Winnie Lo

Winnie is a senior associate in our dispute resolution and insolvency team, and is based in Hong Kong. Her practice focuses on cross-border restructuring and insolvency, as well as commercial dispute resolution. She has acted for insolvency practitioners, commercial banking institutions, directors and shareholders. She also has experience advising on a wide range of high-value and complex commercial disputes including fraud, breaches of directors’ duties and shareholder disputes.

Daniel Long

Daniel is a senior associate in the corporate team based in Guernsey. He advises on fund formation, structuring, management and cross-border financings involving Guernsey companies in addition to general M&A, corporate and commercial transactions. Daniel enjoys working as a team with UK and international onshore law firms and clients to deliver on complex and high value projects.

Oliver MacKay

Oliver is counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Oliver has advised clients for ten years on the resolution of complex and high-value disputes and specialises in contentious trusts, (re)insurance and regulatory matters, including sanctions. He has advised on, and appeared in, significant disputes in the Supreme Court of Bermuda and the Court of Appeal for Bermuda. Oliver's practice also covers commercial and civil litigation, arbitration, and restructuring and insolvency. Oliver advises and acts for corporate clients, financial institutions, trustees, private individuals and families in Bermuda and internationally. He also has extensive experience advising and acting for insurers and reinsurers in the Lloyd's of London and international company markets including in litigation, arbitration and subrogated recovery claims. Oliver specialises in treaty and facultative reinsurance, policy drafting and interpretation and insurance regulation. He has experience of commercial disputes in Bermuda, England and various international jurisdictions across Europe, the US, the Middle East and South America.

Leon Macmillan

Leon is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office, specialising in investment funds. He has broad experience advising on the structuring, formation and operation of funds pursuing a range of investment strategies, as well as related fund transactions.

Jonathan Marion

Jonathan is an associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation practice based in Bermuda. Jonathan assists with a broad range of civil and commercial disputes, including all aspects of offshore commercial and trust litigation with a specific focus on arbitration, enforcement and insolvency issues, including out of court administrative and regulatory disputes. He also assists the private wealth practice of Carey Olsen Bermuda and is interested in various non-contentious trust and estate planning matters. Jonathan is registered with the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) as an Affiliate Member and is undertaking the necessary courses to become a Full Member. He is also a member of the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association of Bermuda (RISA Bermuda) and the Contentious Trusts Associates (ConTrA) network.

Jonathan Marion

Jonathan is an associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation practice based in Bermuda. Jonathan assists with a broad range of civil and commercial disputes, including all aspects of offshore commercial and trust litigation with a specific focus on arbitration, enforcement and insolvency issues, including out of court administrative and regulatory disputes. He also assists the private wealth practice of Carey Olsen Bermuda and is interested in various non-contentious trust and estate planning matters. Jonathan is registered with the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) as an Affiliate Member and is undertaking the necessary courses to become a Full Member. He is also a member of the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association of Bermuda (RISA Bermuda) and the Contentious Trusts Associates (ConTrA) network.

Kayleigh Mascarenhas

Kayleigh is an associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and insolvency team based in the Cayman Islands. She advises on a wide range of commercial and financial services litigation, including cross-boarder insolvency issues and contentious regulatory disputes.

Kyle Masters

Kyle is a partner in the firm's Bermuda office with extensive experience in regulatory and compliance law, internal and external risk mitigation, corporate governance, enforcement actions and business strategy. He has appeared as an advocate in the Bermuda Supreme Court and Court of Appeal undertaking a wide variety of commercial and civil litigation. He has particular expertise on regulatory matters including telecommunications and energy law, employment law, and general corporate disputes.

Jason Mbakwe

Jason Mbakwe is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team. He focuses his practice on contentious restructuring and insolvency matters, complex commercial litigation, regulatory and white collar crime investigations. Jason has extensive experience advising a broad range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including financial institutions, investment funds, bondholders, ad hoc committees, corporate debtors, directors and insolvency practitioners. Jason regularly advises in relation to formal insolvency procedures in the Cayman Islands; shareholder disputes; minority oppression and directors’ duties; asset recovery; the enforcement of domestic and foreign judgments; information gathering, including Norwich Pharmacal relief; various forms of injunctive relief, including freezing and receivership orders.

Trevor McCabe

Trevor is a partner in the corporate group in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. Trevor is experienced in general corporate and corporate finance work, including international equity offerings, IPOs, joint ventures, private equity work and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Anthony McKenzie

Anthony is the managing partner of our Singapore office and the head of our corporate practice in Asia. He is also a founding partner of Carey Olsen's Asia offices and a non-resident partner of the Hong Kong office. Anthony is a specialist in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Bermuda law and is one of only two partners in Singapore admitted to practise these three key offshore laws. He is also the only Cayman Islands and BVI admitted and Bermuda registered transactional partner in Singapore. Anthony has a broad range of experience in offshore corporate, investment funds and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, secured and unsecured financing arrangements, preference share issues, IPOs and capital markets transactions. He regularly advises financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers on leveraged and acquisition finance, syndicated lending, structured finance, fund finance and secured and unsecured general corporate lending. He also has significant experience in advising clients on the structuring, formation and maintenance of regulated and unregulated investment funds in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. Other than being regarded a Leading Partner by The Legal 500, Anthony is ranked as a leading offshore lawyer by each of IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific. He has been consistently identified by China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) in its prestigious A-List as an elite lawyer with a China practice since 2020. In 2023, 2024 and 2025, Anthony is recognised in the new category of the CBLJ A-List, "The Visionaries". He was the only offshore lawyer based in Singapore distinguished on the 2022 and 2023 CBLJ A-list (2 consecutive years). Other than CBLJ, Anthony is also recognised in the Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022 and 2024 by Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) as part of the publication's prestigious annual A-List series. In 2019, he was also recognised by Asian Legal Business in its Offshore Client Choice List for client service in Asia. Clients describe Anthony as "a clear market leader in the offshore space. Top notch service, deep commercial understanding, striking a great balance between legal precision and commercial wisdom." He is also noted for being "extremely approachable with a can-do attitude to providing the advice needed to get transactions over the line."

Michelle Meyer

As an associate within the corporate team of Carey Olsen Bermuda, Michelle advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and commercial law. Michelle has notable and varied commercial transactional experience having worked with JSE listed companies, multinational banks, and some of the world's largest providers of financial markets data.

Harriet Mills

Harriet is a senior associate in the property team in the Cayman Islands. She advises on all aspects of Cayman real estate including development, high value investment, landlord and tenant, joint ventures, real estate finance and corporate structured real estate transactions. Harriet has acted for a range of clients in respect of their property activities with particular focus on hotel and mixed-use development schemes and infrastructure projects. Her client base ranges from experienced property developers, local banks, to entrepreneurs and start-ups looking to open a new business in the Cayman Islands.

Patricia Montgomery

Patricia is a partner in the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey with over 20 years' experience in her specialist field. She advises a variety of private clients and fiduciaries on all fiduciary law aspects, in particular the creation and administration of offshore trusts and corporate and charitable structures, including commercial and private trusts and foundations. She also advises in relation to succession, pensions and estate planning matters. Patricia’s advice is frequently sought by fiduciaries in relation to their regulatory and compliance obligations, terms of business and take-on documentation. She is also regularly instructed by private individuals, global institutions and law firms to assist regarding Guernsey inheritance laws, the creation of wills, grants of probate, lasting powers of attorney and the administration of estates. She has vast experience in managing the process of the winding up of straight forward and the more complex estates, which may involve significant assets, multiple beneficiaries or potential disputes, and she ensures all legal obligations are met and the process runs smoothly.

Ben Morgan

Ben is head of the corporate and finance group in Guernsey and has significant experience in investment funds and corporate law gained from practising with Carey Olsen. Ben advises on the formation of all types of alternative investment funds including hedge funds, property funds and private equity funds as well as banking and finance transactions. He acts for a large number of the well-known private equity fund managers and is recognised as one of the most prominent investment funds lawyers in the Channel Islands by the Legal Media Group’s ‘Expert Guide’ on investment funds.Ben was listed in the International Who's Who Legal of Private Funds Lawyers in 2014. Ben is also a member of Carey Olsen LLP which is the firm's London office.

Richard Munden

Richard advises clients on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions with particular expertise in asset and fund finance. He has deep experience of advising on cross-border transactions, debt capital market transactions, domestic infrastructure projects and joint venture and shareholder arrangements. He also works for a broad range of clients in the rapidly growing digital assets, DEFI and blockchain sector, advising on structures for investing in digital assets and on the regulation of digital assets, exchanges, custodians, liquidity providers and coin and token issuances.

Andrew Munro

Andrew is an advocate of ten years' standing with twenty years' corporate experience, including fifteen years in a senior role at another offshore magic circle firm prior to joining Carey Olsen. He has covered all core areas of offshore non-contentious practice and has managed many large transactions including Guernsey firsts. Andrew has also gained experience as a director of Guernsey regulated financial services businesses and listed vehicles.

Oliver Nicholas

Oliver is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. He maintains a broad practice which includes regulatory and trust disputes as well as general commercial litigation.

James Noble

Based in our Tier 1 ranked (Legal 500) Singapore office, James Noble TEP leads the litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Asia and the largest offshore litigation team in Singapore. James advises on Cayman, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Bermuda law, and is the only Cayman and BVI admitted (and Bermuda registered) litigator in Singapore. A specialist in complex and high profile multi-jurisdictional litigation, asset recovery, cross-border enforcement and insolvency, James has over 20 years' experience working in a wide variety of commercial disputes, many of which involve multi-billion dollar claims. James regularly acts in market leading cases, particularly in connection with listed companies and has specialist expertise in appellate matters in both the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. He is often instructed to give expert evidence on Cayman or BVI law in onshore proceedings before the Singapore and Hong Kong Courts. James is frequently recognised as one of the outstanding offshore litigators in Asia by market leading legal directories and publications. In particular, he is ranked consistently by Chambers Asia and is listed as a Leading Partner for the Offshore category in Singapore and the Caribbean by The Legal 500. He has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List and as one of the Top Offshore Litigators in Asia in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. In addition, James was recognised in the Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022 and 2024 by Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) as part of the publication's prestigious annual A-List series. James was also named as an expert in asset recovery by Who's Who Legal in its 2023 Southeast Asia guide. He was most recently recognised amongst premier online business news platform Business Today's Top 10 Influential Offshore Dispute Resolution Lawyers of Asia-Pacific for 2023. James' expertise and insights are regularly sought after by the industry. He is frequently invited to speak at conferences and panel discussions and was part of the Main Organising Committee of INSOL San Diego. James is also the author of the 2023 textbook, "Commercial Litigation and Enforcement", published by The Global Legal Post. Clients describe James as "quite simply the best of the best. James possesses that rare combination in a team leader of great legal insight, great leadership skills and a frightening eye for detail." He is also noted as "an outstanding team leader, able to integrate a high level awareness of his clients’ commercial objectives with an uncanny oversight of what the most junior associate, or busiest London silk, is doing to deliver the results needed for a positive outcome. Always calm in a tough and highly competitive environment."

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Erinn O\'Brien

Erinn is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. She advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and commercial law. Erinn has notable and varied corporate, commercial, and regulatory experience, having worked with multinational companies, financial institutions, and other stakeholders on various complex matters.

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Catherine O\'Connell

Catherine is a senior associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team, based in the British Virgin Islands. Catherine moved to the BVI in 2018 and since then has gained considerable BVI litigation experience. Her caseload has largely involved shareholder disputes, fraud and asset tracing, trust litigation and insolvency proceedings. She has conducted litigation before the BVI Commercial Court, ECSC Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. Catherine has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of corporate disputes, including obtaining injunctive relief and breach of contract claims.

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Greg O\'Keefe-Davis

Greg is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's British Virgin Islands (BVI) dispute resolution and litigation team, based in London. He advises on all aspects of commercial and insolvency litigation, and has particular experience in high-value, cross-border insolvencies and restructuring, and high-value contentious probate and trust disputes. Greg has also regularly acted for liquidators and receivers in the BVI, and has advised on both in and out of court appointments. Greg has regularly appeared in the Civil and Commercial Divisions of the BVI High Court, and has also appeared in the Court of Appeal, as well as running appeals up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

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Padraic O\'Shaughnessy

Padraic is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Padraic advises local and international clients on a range of matters including corporate and company law disputes, restructuring and insolvency, trust disputes and commercial litigation.

Kieran Ogilvie

Kieran Ogilvie is a senior associate in our commercial property team in Guernsey. Kieran has extensive experience advising on a wide range of commercial property matters with a particular focus on commercial leasing (for both landlord and tenant), property development, property finance, property investment, and the property aspects of corporate transactions having acted on many high-profile acquisitions. Particular project experience includes: acting in the purchase of a portfolio of medical surgeries in 2022, that included some of the largest and longest standing medical centres in Guernsey. acting in the sale of a premium office building in Guernsey in 2019 for circa £60m, the largest office sale in the Island's history, and then in 2021 in the purchase of another premium office building on Island for circa £55m, the second largest office sale on record for the Island. acting in a number of high value property financing and securitisation mandates, that include taking security over one of the largest multi-let retail complexes in Guernsey. acting in the purchase of a portfolio of hotels in Guernsey, that included some of the largest and longest standing hotel operations on the Island. providing property support for a number of M&A transactions in Guernsey, as well as in the UK, and in particular acting on a US corporate acquisition involving a target company with an annual revenue of circa $3 billion. acting for a large public body in a UK wide lease renewal project for over 300 office buildings – the portfolio value exceeded £400 million. acting for one of the largest landowners in Scotland, advising on numerous renewable energy developments, ranging from micro hydro schemes to some of the largest on shore wind developments in the UK.

Denis Olarou

Denis is a partner in the firm's dispute resolution, litigation and insolvency practice. He advises on the laws of the Cayman Islands and of the British Virgin Islands. Denis has over a decade of experience in helping clients resolve complex high-value multi-jurisdictional disputes. His broad practice spans all aspects of insolvency litigation, fraud litigation, shareholder and partnership disputes, as well as general contract and tort claims, including applications for urgent injunctive relief. Denis has also represented clients in international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and advised on the enforcement of arbitral awards. Denis acts for insolvency practitioners, corporates, high net worth individuals and government entities. He has acted for clients from a wide variety of jurisdictions, including in particular the FSU, and the East Asia region. Denis entered the rankings in Chambers & Partners for the first time as an associate in 2018, and maintained his ranking in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Denis has published a number of articles on the subjects of insolvency, litigation, arbitration, and anti-corruption regulations. He has given numerous presentations on the subjects of enforcement, injunctive relief, and asset tracing at a variety of conferences.

Michael Padarin

Michael's practice concentrates on the formation, operation and restructuring of offshore private investment funds, across the alternatives spectrum including private equity, venture, credit and secondaries funds, and their related fund sponsor vehicles. He specialises in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda law. Michael is highly regarded for his breadth of experience advising across the spectrum from emerging managers to the most sophisticated global institutional players. Michael also represents early and later stage companies in a range of industries, including fintech, blockchain, life sciences and technology, in relation to private financings, listings, cross-border investments and other M&A transactions. He is regularly instructed by leading international firms as specialist Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands counsel on complex corporate transactions. Michael lived and worked in the Cayman Islands before returning to Hong Kong and has a wealth of experience dealing with inbound and outbound China deals. During his time in the Cayman Islands Michael acted for some of North America's largest private equity houses on both fund formation and downstream transactional work. He is one of the most experienced offshore private equity specialists in the Hong Kong market.

Kim Paiva

Kim Paiva is a partner in Carey Olsen's Guernsey office with more than 17 years’ experience advising on banking and finance matters under Guernsey law. She acts for lenders and borrowers across a broad range of transactions, including asset finance, corporate finance, including leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance, and non-contentious restructuring and security enforcement matters. Kim advises financial institutions, alternative lenders, private credit funds, private equity sponsors and corporate clients. She is widely recognised for her expertise in aviation finance and regularly advises lenders, borrowers and leasing companies on aircraft registered, or to be registered, on Guernsey’s aircraft registry, 2-REG. Kim established the Guernsey Aviation Working Group in collaboration with 2-REG and continues to play an active role in promoting Guernsey’s aviation offering internationally.

Kim Paiva

Kim Paiva is a Group Partner in Walker's top-tier Guernsey Banking & Finance team – she has 15 years' experience in private practice in onshore and offshore roles, and leads the Guernsey acquisition finance and general secured lending team. Kim has a broad range of expertise encompassing Banking & Finance and Corporate law matters, and specialises in acquisition and asset financing deals, advising borrowers and lenders predominantly in London and within the Channel Islands on matters of Guernsey law. She is part of the market-leading Walkers Global Aviation Group, and advises both owners and financiers in relation to transactions involving aircraft registered or to be registered on 2-REG (Guernsey's Aircraft Registry). Kim has ten years' experience advising on Guernsey law, and also advises on leveraged finance, and in acquisitions of regulated trust and company services providers. Having spent five years practising in South Africa's largest law firm, Kim also works with clients from South Africa on funds and private capital matters, advising clients in respect of asset protection and succession planning structures.

Imogen Payne

Imogen is a senior associate in the corporate and finance team in Carey Olsen’s London office. Imogen advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including banking finance, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, collective investment schemes and group reorganisations.

Emma Penney

Emma is a senior associate in the corporate and finance. Emma has experience in advising clients on a wide range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, open and closed-ended investment funds in Guernsey and also undertakes a range of finance transactions.

Matthew Perriment

Matthew is a senior associate in the corporate team located in our Bermuda office. Matthew's practice covers a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial and regulatory law with specific focus on corporate governance and regulation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), fintech and digital assets, intellectual property and wider technology sectors. He also has particular expertise in artificial intelligence, media and data communications.

Jordan Powell

Jordan is an associate in Carey Olsen’s corporate team in Bermuda. He advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and finance law.

Tracey Powell

Tracey is a senior associate in the corporate team based in London. Tracey advises on a broad range of corporate, banking and finance, funds and regulatory matters, with particular focus on the establishment, regulation and management of investment funds, including advising on fund financing.

Gerald Quinn

Gerald is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. Gerald advises on a wide variety of corporate matters including mergers, sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, IPOs, corporate restructurings, commercial contracts, and general corporate law and governance.

Steven Rees Davies

Steven's practice covers a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial and regulatory law with specific depth and experience in corporate governance and regulation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), finance, securities and restructuring. A recognised specialist in the fintech and digital asset sector, Steven worked with the Bermuda government in the introduction and development of its digital asset legal and regulatory regime, and represents a significant number of digital asset companies headquartered, or with operations, in Bermuda. He also has particular expertise in infrastructure projects and the wider technology, telecommunications and energy sectors. Steven regularly represents clients on a wide variety of local and cross-jurisdictional corporate and regulatory transactions and restructurings as well as public offerings (IPOs), private placements and listings on the Bermuda, New York and London stock exchanges. He also advises on complex multinational joint ventures and private equity projects. Steven has acted as a director on the boards of US and European listed companies as well as smaller entrepreneurial private companies and has advised on all aspects of business law that affect such entities. He is as comfortable advising technology start-ups as he is with the boards of international conglomerates.

Matthew Rhodes

Matthew is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team as well as the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Matthew's practice has a particular focus on commercial, trust, estate and insolvency litigation. In commercial disputes, Matthew assists companies, directors, shareholders, liquidators, administrators and creditors in achieving successful outcomes both in and out of Court. He has particular expertise in applications for interim relief, including injunctions, freezing orders, preservation orders and Anton Piller orders, and in the enforcement of judgments on both a domestic and cross-border basis. In addition, he also has expertise in high-value trust and estate litigation and court approved trust restructurings, often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Matthew represents global businesses, trustees, beneficiaries, settlors and protectors in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious cases before the Bermuda courts. He is currently working towards obtaining his TEP designation with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Keith Robinson

Keith Robinson is the global head of the trusts and private wealth practice at Carey Olsen and head of the dispute resolution and trusts and private wealth practice of Carey Olsen Bermuda. With more than 20 years' experience in a wide range of commercial litigation, Keith is highly recognised by publications, peers and clients; being described as "extremely well respected globally" and someone who "knows how to handle big offshore disputes". Often engaged by clients for "significantly challenging" litigation and high value civil matters where his "wider experience and knowledge gives him a very good forensic edge", Keith's dispute resolution practice ranges from corporate and commercial disputes, arbitration, breach of contract and public law to restructuring and insolvency matters. His restructuring and insolvency expertise includes advising on a number of cross-border insolvencies, asset recovery/tracing cases and receiverships, as well as schemes of arrangement. He regularly advises liquidators and receivers, the boards of distressed entities, investors and unsecured creditors in relation to both contentious and non-contentious insolvency issues. In addition, he also has expertise in high-value trust litigation and court approved trust restructurings, often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Keith represents global businesses, trustees, beneficiaries, settlors and protectors in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious cases before the Supreme Court of Bermuda, drawing on his extensive advocacy experience. Keith has been involved in many of the major insolvency and trust cases in Bermuda in recent years and has written widely and spoken internationally on Bermuda law.

Dean Robson

Dean is counsel in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution and litigation team based in the BVI. His practice includes a range of commercial litigation matters with a focus on cross-border litigation, corporate insolvency, and contentious trusts work. Dean was named as one of eprivateclient's Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 private client practitioners in 2020 and 2021 before making both the Channel Islands and UK lists in 2022. Dean co-authored the Chambers Global Litigation and Lexology Restructuring and Insolvency practice guides for Jersey. He is a member of INSOL and the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA).

Yan-Xia Rogers

Yan-Xia is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in Bermuda. She advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate, finance and commercial law.

Alistair Russell

Alistair is a partner in the corporate and finance group of Carey Olsen in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of finance, fund finance, venture capital, corporate, investment funds and commercial law. He has advised clients on a broad range of transactions, including financing, private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets, and is described by clients in IFLR1000 as "the best Cayman lawyer we've ever worked with".

Catriona Severns

Catriona is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate, banking and finance matters.

Peter Sherwood

Peter is a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team in the Cayman Islands. He advises on all aspects of insolvency litigation, general banking and commercial litigation and non-contentious insolvency and restructurings.

Henry Simpson

Henry is a senior associate in the corporate and finance team, advising on a wide range of corporate matters with particular emphasis on banking and finance and investment funds. Henry has experience in acting for both international and local clients in relation to complex and high value finance transactions, as well as on general corporate and regulatory issues.

Nigel Smith

Nigel is counsel in the dispute resolution and litigation team in Carey Olsen's Cayman Island office. Nigel has a range of experience in all general litigation matters, primarily in the financial services sector. He acts in general commercial matters, including inter-party disputes and disputes between shareholders and directors of a company, and routinely acts in insolvency matters for liquidators, receivers, creditors and other interested parties. Almost all of his work involves the resolution of cross-jurisdictional issues. He has extensive experience in valuation matters in particular, including acting in a number of proceedings to determine the fair value of shares in multi-billion dollar companies, following shareholders dissenting in take-private transactions for those companies. Additionally, Nigel regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious employment matters.

Andrea Steel

Andrea has considerable expertise in a wide range of fund structuring, formation, administration and regulatory matters, with particular knowledge of private equity and real estate funds. She has a track record of building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and demonstrating commitment to organisational aims, values and strategies.

Evan Stitt

Evan is a senior associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. He advises on a wide range of corporate and corporate finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on venture capital and mergers and acquisitions.

Graham Stoute

Graham is based in Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office and advises private and institutional clients on the establishment, re-organisation and administration of Cayman and BVI trusts and trust structures, including STAR and VISTA trusts, private trust companies, commercial trust arrangements and charitable trusts. Graham also advises generally on wills and estate planning matters, probate and resealing applications, and the administration of complex estates.

Matthew Summers

Matthew is an associate in the dispute resolution and litigation team at Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. His practice focuses primarily on litigation and arbitration in the corporate and commercial context. Matthew has experience litigating a wide variety of commercial disputes, as well as securing injunctions and other orders protecting his client’s business interests. Some of Matthew’s recent experience includes litigating contract, insurance, debt, civil fraud, and corporate governance matters. Examples include advising clients on corporate director and shareholder disputes, such as in relation to oppression claims and other shareholder remedies.

Ardra Swaraj

Ardra is an associate in the trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. She advises a variety of private clients and fiduciaries on all aspects of Guernsey fiduciary law, including the creation and administration of offshore trusts and corporate structures. Ardra also advises on Guernsey inheritance laws, the creation of wills and the administration of estates.

Richard Sykes

Richard is partner in our corporate practice in the Cayman Islands. Richard advises on Cayman real estate, development and all aspects of local leasing and licensing. Richard's practice focuses on complex real estate transactions and structuring. In addition Richard has significant experience in hospitality and infrastructure. Since arriving in Cayman in 2008, Richard has been involved in almost every major hotel acquisition as well as guiding the development of Camana Bay, Cayman's only mixed use community. Richard has significant experience in public sector projects and is the lead legal advisor in Cayman's first Public Private Partnership established to modernise the Islands' solid waste infrastructure. Richard also has hotel and commercial development experience in a number of other Caribbean jurisdictions. Richard is a CIMA approved director and sits on the executive committees of several strata corporations.

Marcus Symonds

Marcus is an associate with Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited, working across the employment and dispute resolution and litigation teams.

Amelia Tan

Amelia is counsel in Carey Olsen's litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation, with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder / director litigation, corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Amelia also has significant experience in seeking urgent interlocutory relief for clients, including freezing orders and injunctions, and enforcement matters and has represented clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. She regularly advises listed companies and financial institutions, high net worth individuals and insolvency practitioners in the region. Amelia has been listed as a Leading Associate (previously known as Rising Star) consecutively by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List in 2024 and 2025. She was also selected to participate in the inaugural Singapore Leaders Network fellowship programme (SGLN), an initiative led by the Singapore government, the Singapore Economic Development Board, and supported by the private sector. Amelia is one of the five global finalists (and only recipient in Asia) of the IWIRC Rising Star Award in 2022 and is also part of the International Insolvency Institute's (III) highly prestigious and successful NextGen Leadership Program Class XII (2023). Clients speak highly of Amelia, describing her as an "outstanding individual within Carey Olsen" and who is "technically solid, business savvy and always responsive".

Alex Thornton de Mauroy

Alex is counsel to the dispute resolution and litigation team with experience in complex commercial litigation, contentious insolvency matters, public law cases and regulatory enforcement. Since moving to Guernsey, Alex has been involved in a range of matters. These include acting for certain directors to defend claims in the region of USD 1 billion brought by joint liquidators, advising parties involved in regulatory enforcement proceedings at the Royal Court and Court of Appeal level, acting for high net worth individuals in connection with a range of issues, and advising on various public law matters including judicial review. Alex has been recognised as a Future Leader (non-partner) for Commercial Litigation by Lexology in 2023, 2024 and 2025. Alex is also ranked in the Citywealth Leaders List 2025, and received the Citywealth Future Leaders Awards 2023 – Lawyer of the Year IFC (Senior Associate) – Silver Award. Clients say that Alex has "exceptional attention to detail", and that his "Client service and delivery was exceptional, never missed a deadline and was on every aspect of the detail".

Andrew Tually

Andrew is a partner in Carey Olsen's Guernsey office. Andrew has significant experience in connection with the structuring, formation and regulation of Guernsey open and closed-ended collective investment schemes investing in private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds. He also advises upon significant and high value corporate and M&A transactions, including court-sanctioned schemes of arrangement, group restructures and migrations. Andrew advises a wide range of fund managers across the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Solita Turner

Solita is an associate in the corporate group of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office. She advises on a range of corporate, investment funds and regulatory matters.

Katie Turney

Katie is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team in the Cayman Islands. Katie is a qualified Trusts and Estate Practitioner with a strong foundation in traditional private client work. She advises HNW and UHNW individuals, beneficiaries, trustees, executors and other fiduciaries across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious trusts and estates matters and has a particular interest in matters where dispute resolution and advisory work intersect. Katie advises on wills and estate planning, often with a cross-border aspect, and wealth structuring including the creation, restructuring and termination of trusts and foundation companies. In her litigation practice she acts for trustees and beneficiaries in actions for directions, blessings and breach of trust claims.

Nicholas Vasic

Nicholas is an associate in Carey Olsen's corporate team, based in the Cayman Islands. He advises companies across a wide range of corporate and finance transactions. Nicholas' work has included representing clients in mergers, acquisitions, financings and re-structuring along with a variety of other corporate matters.

Dhanshuklal Vekaria

Dhanshuklal Vekaria is partner in the dispute resolution and insolvency team in Hong Kong. He has a broad range of experience in the offshore and general commercial litigation context most recently advising and acting in relation to the liquidation and winding up of a number of offshore private corporates, trust and fund structures, disputes in relation to private client trusts, fair valuation disputes, injunction and freezing orders and corporate restructuring disputes. Dhanshuklal is an experienced commercial litigator and advocate with particular expertise in valuation disputes.

Tiffy Wan

Tiffy is a cousel in Carey Olsen's corporate, M&A and finance team in Hong Kong where she advises our Asia and PRC-based clients on a wide variety of offshore corporate transactional matters. Tiffy’s legal practice focuses on commercial and corporate finance transactions, including Hong Kong and US-based initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary securities offerings, restructurings (including schemes of arrangement), mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments, fund-raising and fund finance transactions for both public and private companies, and other general corporate instructions. Tiffy has acted for a broad range of corporations and financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region with particular experience in acting for China-based issuers and strategic acquirers.

Helen Wang

Helen TEP is a partner in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, estate and private clients related disputes, fraud and investigatory cases and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin and fluent in English. Helen has extensive experiences advising clients on cross-border litigation and handling high value disputes, covering a broad range of sectors, including financial services, energy and resources, insurance and high net-worth individuals. Helen has been listed as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 Asia 2025 and 2024 Guides. She is also ranked in the Up and Coming category in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026 Guide. She has also been recognised as a Rising Star in China Business Law Journal's 2023-24 A-List of elite private practice lawyers in the Chinese market. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers (2024), Offshore Client Choice List (2023 and 2024), Top 10 Offshore Litigators (2023 and 2024) and Asia 40 under 40 List (2023). Clients have praised Helen for being "extremely personable, super responsive and hard working" and for her "excellent legal knowledge and commercial sense." As an active supporter of advancing women's interest in the legal community, Helen is a committee member on the IWIRC Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee. She is also the Asia lead of Carey Olsen's Women's Network which aims to facilitate meaningful collaboration and support amongst women across the firm and provide a framework to help women at Carey Olsen build on their talents and achieve their potential. Helen is also the Vice President of Women in Law Singapore (WILSG), a community open to all female members of the legal industry. Helen is an officer to the International Bar Association (IBA) Litigation Committee, acting as Secretary to The Hague Conference on Private International Law Subcommittee. She is also appointed as a Expert Consultant by the Guangzhou Association of Bankruptcy Administrators. She is also a full TEP member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and an elected member of the STEP Contentious Trusts and Estates Special Interest Group Steering Committee. She is also an appointed member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel in Singapore.

Matthew Watson

Matthew is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution and Litigation practice in the Hong Kong office. His practice is focused on acting for high-net-worth clients and major corporations in insolvency and restructuring contexts, as well as high value and complex commercial, corporate, trust and estate litigation under the law of Bermuda. Matthew is highly recommended by peers and clients and is ranked in leading legal directories Chambers and the Legal 500, where he has been described as, "an absolute delight to work with: incredibly hard-working, excellent commercial brain, superb attention to detail and a first-rate lawyer." Other client testimonials praise his "superb tactical litigation skill" and "unwavering dedication to excellence and total commitment to the case". Matthew is also one of the leading private client professionals ranked in the Global Private Client Elite.

Jay Webster

Jay Webster is a partner in the dispute resolution team at Carey Olsen Bermuda specialising in employment and immigration law matters. Jay has more than 15 years’ experience advising multinational companies, partnerships, LLPs and senior executives on all aspects of employment and immigration law. Jay's practice is diverse and his clients include both local and exempt companies involved in a wide variety of sectors including telecoms, insurance and reinsurance, digital assets, financial and professional services. Jay regularly provides clients with strategic advice on commercially sensitive employment matters often with significant reputational implications including complex workplace and regulatory investigations, high value discrimination and bonus claims, and crisis management scenarios. Jay prides himself on taking a pragmatic, commercial and business focused approach to all his work. In particular, Jay enjoys resolving high value disputes, and has significant experience advising clients on: senior executive dismissals; multi-jurisdictional workplace restructures; trade union disputes; business protection issues (enforcement of restrictive covenants, team moves and breaches of confidentiality); privacy law and data protection issues and sensitive grievance and disciplinary investigations. Jay is a member of Carey Olsen Bermuda's Regulatory Team and acts as a Panel Chair in the Bermuda Human Rights Tribunal. Whilst practicing in the UK, Jay was named as a recommended employment law practitioner in the UK Legal 500 (London Human Resources: Employer and Senior Executives).

Shane Westin

Shane is counsel in Carey Olsen's corporate, commercial and property law groups in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of corporate, commercial and property law.

Dylan Wiltermuth

Dylan has extensive experience in all aspects of corporate work, including joint ventures, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets and structured finance transactions, including credit-linked and equity derivative trades, preference share financings, arbitrage and other tax structured transactions, index-linked and credit-linked note issues and structured repo and stock lending transactions. Dylan maintains a strong focus on public company work, private equity, financial services, and energy spheres. He has spent many years advising clients on complex cross-border transactions across a wide range of jurisdictions and has a demonstrable track record of success in mitigating risk and delivering results. Commercially astute, Dylan is a transactional lawyer with a reputation for implementing complicated deals in a straightforward manner.

Gavin Woods

Gavin is a partner in Carey Olsen's Bermuda corporate and finance team and is also deputy managing partner of Carey Olsen in Bermuda. He advises on all forms of corporate and finance transactions. In particular, Gavin is recognised as one of Bermuda's leading practitioners in the insurance/reinsurance sector and has extensive experience working with insurance and financial services companies and industry participants on all matters relating to insurers, reinsurers and insurance intermediaries. In his corporate practice, Gavin advises on all matters relating to Bermuda entities, including local, exempted, permit and segregated accounts companies, partnerships and limited liability companies. Gavin's practice includes corporate governance, equity issuances, joint ventures, listings, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, regulatory compliance and licensing advice related to financial services, insurance, investment business, investment funds and fund management. In his finance practice, Gavin advises local and international clients, including banks, corporates, funds, insurance companies, investment managers and investors on matters relating to lending, structured finance, fund financing, asset finance, securitisation (including ILS), debt capital markets, securities issuances, derivatives and restructuring, together with related regulatory and collateral advice. Gavin is also a member of the listing committee of the Bermuda Stock Exchange.

Tim Wright

Tim is a partner in Carey Olsen's British Virgin Islands (BVI) Dispute Resolution and Litigation team, practising BVI law from Carey Olsen’s London office. Tim has over 15 years' onshore and offshore experience of high profile and complex cross-border litigation and insolvency work and has recently relocated to London after living and working in the BVI for eight years. Tim is qualified as a Solicitor and Barrister and regularly appears in Court. He is a highly experienced offshore litigator, working on all elements of shareholder and company disputes, cross-border fraud and asset tracing, injunctions, trusts, insolvency and restructuring. Tim's cases are often complex multi-jurisdictional disputes which involve working with professional advisors in other countries and time zones. Tim is well versed in new litigation trends such as cryptocurrency and digital asset disputes, and cases involving economic sanctions. Tim is a business minded and pragmatic litigator who takes the time to understand his clients' needs and objectives. He recognises that legal disputes can be stressful and destructive for businesses. He aims to find the best outcome for his clients, whether in court or by commercial settlement.

Maggie Yan

Maggie is based in Carey Olsen’s Singapore office. She specialises in corporate law and capital market regulations as well as IPO and financing projects. She advises PRC based clients with regards to investments, commercial contracts with BVI and/or Cayman entities and private equity investment transactions and IPO projects with offshore structures.

Yi Yang

Yi has a wide range of experience assisting in cross-border commercial litigation, including shareholder disputes, derivative actions, contentious insolvency and appraisal actions involving offshore companies.

Rachel Yao

Rachel TEP is counsel based in Singapore and leads the firm's trusts and private wealth practice in Asia. She is the only native Chinese Mandarin speaking trusts and private wealth lawyer based in Singapore who specialises in offshore law. Rachel has particular experience advising high net worth individuals and ultra-high net worth individuals from the Asia-Pacific region, many of whom are ranked on the Forbes World's Billionaires List and the Hurun China Rich List (which ranks China's wealthiest people with a minimum net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$690m)). Rachel advises these clients on family wealth preservation, global asset allocation and the establishment and restructuring of a wide range of trust structures including private family trusts and employee benefit trusts and philanthropic, and charitable structures and foundations. On a day-to-day basis, Rachel plans and sets up new trust structures, drafts trust documents and related instruments, and offers guidance on the ongoing management and restructuring of complex trusts for her clients. Her clients range from wealthy individuals and families, professional trustees, single family offices and multi-family offices, wealth management companies to private banks. In addition to her specialisation in trusts and private wealth matters, Rachel also has a broad range of experience in corporate and commercial transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign direct investment-related general corporate law. She advises international companies from a wide range of industries on their legal matters and business transactions worldwide.

Isabella Zuill-McKenzie

Isabella is an associate in the trusts and private wealth team of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited. Isabella advises local and international clients on a range of matters including corporate and company law disputes, restructuring and insolvency, trust disputes and commercial litigation.