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Kate is a Partner based in Jersey. She specialises in guiding clients through the regulatory, structural and financing landscape involved in establishing, maintaining and reorganising group investment structures and vehicles. These structures range from fully regulated collective investment funds to large group arrangements and joint venture vehicles, primarily for ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW), entrepreneurial, and high-net-worth (HNW) clients.

Senior Associate. Kirsten is a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team, currently on secondment in our Cayman office. She advises clients on contentious matters in various areas of law, including contractual disputes, torts and general commercial disputes. Kirsten also advises on dispute prevention and risk mitigation measures, such as effective contract drafting and negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. She has a particular focus on securing the best solution in the circumstances, whether through litigation or otherwise. Kirsten has a keen interest in the development of the law in relation to financial technology, especially blockchain and other distributed ledger technology. She advises clients on how fintech can be integrated into dispute resolution mechanisms, and on the resolution of disputes within the sphere.

Jonathan Barham

Jonathan is a Partner and former English Solicitor, English Barrister and Jersey Advocate. He also sits as a Commissioner of Appeal for Tax. He has more than 20 years’ experience of dealing with all aspects of commercial litigation, encompassing a broad range of business, corporate and insolvency disputes. He has regularly acted for well-known companies, shareholders and office holders, dealing with matters from inception through to trial as a solicitor and appearing before the English and Jersey courts on a broad range of interim applications, trials and appeals. He has also represented clients in mediations and other non-court based dispute resolution processes.

Daisy Bovingdon

Daisy is an Advocate and Senior Associate in Jersey, specialising in high-value, cross-border commercial litigation. Daisy's particular expertise includes asset recovery and enforcement (including interim relief); corporate and partnership disputes; and insolvency applications and advice. Daisy has a particular passion for ADR, and regularly achieves substantial success for clients through negotiated settlement, and mediation. Working in partnership with Collas Crill's leading regulatory and corporate teams, Daisy routinely advises on issues concerning international tax cooperation treaties, the obligations of corporate services providers and trustees, and the duties of directors.

Dan is a Consultant in the dispute resolution team of Collas Crill in Jersey. He also performs an important role within the Private Client and Trusts team, providing detailed legal research and document due diligence across matters involving complex issues of trust law, historic claims of mismanagement and large volumes of documents is a Group Partner. He is highly experienced in large case management, dealing with high-value, complex commercial and trust litigation through all degrees of contentiousness. Dan is often involved in the larger international disputes, working closely with Damian James on high-end trust and corporate/ financial services cases that involve extended teams of international advisors. While Dan is a member of the Dispute Resolution team, he also performs an important role within the non-contentious private client team, providing detailed legal research and document due-diligence across matters involving complex issues of trust law, historic claims of mismanagement and large volumes of documents.

Lynne is a Jersey Advocate and a Partner in the Jersey office. She undertakes a wide range of civil, commercial and regulatory matters. She undertakes a wide range of civil and commercial and regulatory matters with particular emphasis on construction disputes, contentious trusts, banking litigation, property and professional negligence claims. Lynne has significant experience representing high-profile clients in a range of contractual and commercial disputes, the team being the favoured advisor for many of Jersey's high net worth individuals and families on their private, property, trust and family disputes.

Carol is a Senior Associate in the Jersey office. She has experience in all aspects of commercial property transactions particularly commercial lending and borrowing, leasehold matters, development work, commercial sales and acquisitions and corporate support. Carol has previous experience in all aspects of family law, public law proceedings and petty debt claims. Having successfully passed the notary exam in 2024, Carol is waiting to be sworn in as a Notary Public.

Pamela is Jersey Managing Partner. She is an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey and a member of the real estate team. Pamela has extensive experience in all aspects of residential and commercial property work, with significant expertise in property development, investment acquisitions and sales, agreements for lease, leasing and lease management, corporate support, banking and development finance and insolvency. She has sat on the board as non-executive director of a number of property companies with substantial UK commercial property assets. She joined Collas Crill in October 2017, having previously worked at offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes and leading UK law firm Pinsent Masons for a number of years. Pamela studied law at the University of Glasgow and qualified as a Solicitor in Scotland in 2003 and is a member of The Law Society of Scotland. She is also Scottish Notary Public (registered with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office).

Fritha is a Partner and a Jersey Advocate. She is an experienced litigator who specialises in contentious and semi-contentious trust work and private client disputes. Fritha has extensive experience of complex, high value, multijurisdictional trust disputes and has been involved in some of the largest and most advanced trust litigation to come before the Royal Court in Jersey. In addition to hostile litigation matters, Fritha is regularly involved in applications concerning the blessing of momentous trustee decisions and applications to set aside trusts on grounds of mistake. Fritha is also frequently instructed to provide Jersey trust law advice in the context of high net worth divorces.

Dionne is a Partner in Jersey and a highly skilled litigator with 20 years' experience offering an impressive range of private client expertise to the firm's UHNW client base. Her work focuses on: complex and cross border family matters, advising and representing clients in high value divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving on and offshore assets; child law matters including complex relocation cases and residency matters; negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements on behalf of clients wishing to protect pre-marital assets, and advising on the protection of family wealth; civil disputes, including contractual disputes, professional negligence and personal injury as well as Landlord and Tenant issues. Dionne was involved in the leading case in Jersey on establishing the prescription period for Voisinage, a customary law doctrine; contentious probate matters; corporate disputes, including asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgments; criminal litigation, having appeared in a large number of high profile cases, including the first ever prosecution for money laundering in Jersey which went to the Privy Council for determination; cases involving capacity issues including court appointments of Case Delegate (acting to manage the financial affairs of an individual lacking capacity - broadly speaking, the Jersey equivalent to Guardianships) in two particularly complex cases and cases involving the appointment of Tuteur to deal with a minor's property.

Matt is an Advocate in the Jersey office, specialising in financing transactions for international banks, Matt has acted for a wide range of Jersey, UK and European financial institutions, senior and mezzanine lenders. He has particular expertise in the financing and structuring of commercial real estate transactions and loan portfolio sales and acquisitions, alongside experience in fund finance and general banking transactions. Matt also works on a broad range of corporate transactions, including establishing investment vehicles, particularly JPUTs, to acquire a range of assets including real estate, private M&A, group reorganisations and advising listed clients on general company law and corporate governance matters. He advises high net worth individuals and family offices on the reorganisation and redomiciliation of multi-jurisdictional holding structures as well as philanthropic transactions.

Matt is an Advocate in the Jersey office, specialising in financing transactions for international banks, Matt has acted for a wide range of Jersey, UK and European financial institutions, senior and mezzanine lenders. He has particular expertise in the financing and structuring of commercial real estate transactions and loan portfolio sales and acquisitions, alongside experience in fund finance and general banking transactions. Matt also works on a broad range of corporate transactions, including establishing investment vehicles, particularly JPUTs, to acquire a range of assets including real estate, private M&A, group reorganisations and advising listed clients on general company law and corporate governance matters. He advises high net worth individuals and family offices on the reorganisation and redomiciliation of multi-jurisdictional holding structures as well as philanthropic transactions.

Arcadius Gregory

Arcadius is a Senior Associate in Jersey. Arcadius has a broad practice covering private wealth and trust matters. This includes advising on all aspects of inheritance and succession planning, and preparing all types of fully bespoke wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney and trust instruments. Arcadius’s private client practice includes acting on behalf of, and advising, executors and trustees (both professional and individual) and beneficiaries. With more than ten years of private practice experience, Arcadius counts a number of highly successful individuals, entrepreneurs, landowners, farmers and lottery winners among his clients. He is well regarded for his strategic approach to inheritance planning for high-net-worth individuals and their families.

Damian is an experienced litigator who specialises in contentious and semi-contentious trust work and heavyweight commercial litigation. Damian is a member of the Fraud Network and is highly ranked in both the main legal directories. He is listed as a prominent figure in the contentious trust sector and he sits on the board of one of the world's largest litigation funds. The company specialises in funding high profile, multi billion-pound, international group action claims.

Martin Le Boutillier

Martin is a Jersey Solicitor specialising in all aspects of commercial property and real estate finance in Jersey. He has a particular focus on real estate finance and corporate acquisitions and disposals. Martin has recently acted on a number of high profile developments in Jersey both for developers and funders, as well as in respect of a number of acquisitions and disposals of prestigious office buildings in the heart of St Helier's financial district.

Laura has broad practical experience in the establishment and administration of corporate and trust structures, in addition to her legal expertise both in private practice and in-house.

Bonnie McPartland

Bonnie joined Collas Crill in 2016 and specialises in both non-contentious and contentious trust matters. She enjoys good relationships with local trustees and onshore intermediaries alike, and advises on the establishment and lifecycle administration of Jersey trusts.

Alexander Price

Alexander is a Senior Associate in Jersey. He advises on matters of both Jersey and British Virgin Islands law and has a broad understanding of both conventional and Islamic forms of finance. Although he regularly acts for conventional lending institutions, Alexander specialises in cross-border Islamic financing transactions which involve offshore entities structured in a Shariah-compliant manner. He has acted for Islamic banks and financial institutions, in both the UK and the Middle East, for over nine years and is familiar with a range of Shariah-compliant products. Alexander also acts for investors (both individuals and institutional) looking to obtain financing, and structure their investments, through offshore entities.

Jason is Collas Crill's Group Managing Partner. He is responsible for setting and implementing the group's strategy together with the Strategy Board and Management Committee. Jason has been a partner of the firm since 2007, became Managing Partner in Guernsey in 2010 then Group Managing Partner in 2012. He led the firm's mergers in the Channel Islands, Cayman and BVI. Jason has been instrumental in evolving Collas Crill's brand to challenge the 'traditional law firm' attitude with a focus on exceeding client expectations and reflecting the firm's core value of being easy to do business with. He has completed a number of leadership programmes including Leading Professional Service Firms with Harvard Business School and Professional Service Firm Leader with Cambridge Judge Business School. Previously, Jason worked for 'magic circle' firm Linklaters. Before joining Collas Day in 2007, he was Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Cable & Wireless in Guernsey. Jason relocated to Jersey in 2019.

Nuno Santos-Costa

Nuno is one of the most highly regarded Jersey advocates. He has over 30 years' experience and his profile has resulted in Collas Crill attracting some of the island's best known and most complex, top-flight litigation work. Nuno's experience, at the highest level, is extensive and he has been instructed by a wide variety of clients, ranging from international financial institutions to countries. He specialises in commercial litigation and regularly represents clients in highly complex and important trust, contract and fraud cases many of which are now leading cases in their areas of law. The favoured advisor for many of Jersey's wealthiest families on their private, property and trust disputes, he has appeared in many substantial Jersey cases including acting for the first defendant in the Alhamrani trusts litigation, Jersey's biggest ever litigation dispute.

James is a Partner and joined Collas Crill in January 2024. James is an English barrister and Jersey Advocate and has a busy practice with a particular focus on contentious and non-contentious trust work. James advises, undertakes drafting work, and acts for beneficiaries, trustees and other power-holders in relation to: Breach of trust claims, asset tracing/recovery and claims for secondary liability against accessories. Issues concerning trust administration, the appointment and removal of trustees and the exercise of powers. Applications to court for directions, the variation and rectification of trusts and the disclosure of information to beneficiaries and third parties. Jurisdiction disputes and the enforcement of foreign judgments against trustees and beneficiaries. Issues concerning trustees’ rights of indemnity, fees and legal cost. James also advises in relation to a broad range of contentious commercial and company law disputes.

Khetha is an Associate in the Jersey office. He is an accomplished corporate attorney with extensive experience in general corporate and commercial law, due diligence, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions transactions and regulatory matters across a broad spectrum of industries including mining, infrastructure, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, renewable energy and the public sector. Khetha also has strong expertise in structuring and negotiating a wide variety of contracts, agreements, transactions and legal relationships.

Karen specialises in high-value, cross-border insolvency and commercial litigation. She routinely advises on issues concerning insolvency, shareholder disputes, and directors' duties. Her expertise includes asset recovery and enforcement; corporate and partnership disputes; and insolvency applications. Karen regularly advises directors, limited partners and insolvency practitioners. She also advises on professional negligence claims involving directors; trustees; solicitors; and construction professionals.

Daniel is of Counsel in the Jersey team. He specialises in all aspects of Jersey corporate, banking and trust law.

Conor advises on all aspects of corporate law, including advising on trademark and probate matters. He is currently on secondment from the BVI to the firm's Jersey office. Prior to joining Collas Crill in 2015, Conor worked as a Solicitor in the banking and finance department of a major international firm in Dublin, Ireland. Conor was promoted to Senior Associate in January 2023.

Nick is a Partner in the Jersey office. He has more than 30 years’ legal experience, including over 20 years offshore. He has significant expertise advising on the full range of legal, commercial and regulatory issues relevant to the establishment, operation and financing of Jersey vehicles ranging from companies and partnerships through to trusts and foundations.