Collas Crill

Senior Associate. Alistair is a real estate lawyer providing both commercial and residential advice across a wide range of matters including acquisitions and disposals, insolvency, development funding and lettings. He is experienced in acting for developers, administrators, investors, lenders, landlords and tenant. Alistair has more than 10 years' experience in the real estate sector. Originally based in the UK, Alistair worked at DWF and then Shoosmiths acting for a wide range of clients managing transactions between £200k to £20m+ including a large number of Yorkshire-based private rental sector schemes.

Amy is a Senior Associate and Advocate in the Financial Services and Regulatory team in Guernsey. Her practice encompasses a wide range of work, including criminal, financial services disputes and regulatory. Amy has a wealth of advocacy experience, having spent 10 years working as a criminal lawyer in England and Wales. She assists individuals both at the police station and in Court, specialising in the defence of white collar and general crime. In addition to her criminal practice, Amy assists financial services businesses and their clients in all aspects of legal and regulatory work, including advising on: the formal and informal freezing of funds; the forfeiture of funds; the Guernsey disclosure and consent regime; and the potential regulatory implications of such matters.

Counsel. Andrew has a broad range of commercial litigation experience and frequently advises in relation to complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. He regularly acts for trustees, settlors, protectors, enforcers and beneficiaries in relation to trust disputes (both contentious and non-contentious). His practice also includes advising in relation to shareholder disputes, fund disputes and for dissenting shareholders in proceedings for the determination of the fair value of their shares. He also advises on regulatory matters. He has worked offshore since 2010, first in Guernsey, where he was heavily involved in one of the largest trust disputes in the Channel Islands, before moving to the Cayman Islands in late 2016.

Angela is a Partner in the Private Client and Trusts team. Angela's core strengths are in establishing, reorganising and winding up Guernsey trust and foundation structures (including pension and gratuity schemes) and also assisting trustees in navigating the administration of those structures in accordance with their fiduciary duties. As a former litigator prior to moving to Guernsey, Angela is great at spotting thorny issues early and assisting trustees and beneficiaries to resolve conflict before things escalate into litigation. Day to day, Angela's caseload is very varied. Recently she has established private trust companies and private trustee foundations with multiple underlying trusts and companies for both domestic and international families in conjunction with some of the UK's leading City firms. She has established multi-million dollar pensions and end of service gratuity schemes for multiple UAE companies and she has also assisted trustees in deliberating "momentous decisions" and mediating the interests of warring beneficiaries.

Associate. Annabel advises on a wide range of corporate matters, including banking and corporate finance, investment funds, mergers and acquisitions and general commercial work. She moved from the Guernsey to the BVI office in September 2022. Annabel has previously worked on a number of cross-jurisdictional and cross-departmental matters with our other offices. In particular, Annabel regularly worked with the property teams assisting property funds on the acquisition of large commercial properties both in Guernsey and Jersey and acting for the borrower in the financing for the development of Guernsey's Premier Inn. Annabel has undertaken client secondments to leading private banks in both Channel Islands. Being able to experience transactions from a client's perspective has enabled her to fully understand and appreciate their specific needs. Annabel is listed as a recommended lawyer in Legal 500 2024.

Annalisa Shibli

Counsel. Annalisa is a Counsel in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. She has a broad practice covering commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes work on high-value fraud and asset tracing claims, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and shareholder disputes. She regularly advises limited partners, shareholders, directors and fund managers on insolvency-related matters.

Ben is an Associate in Financial Services and Regulation team. He has advised on a number of cases in Guernsey, as well as cross-jurisdictional matters, involving our areas of expertise including: contentious risk and regulatory matters; contentious trusts; insolvency and restructuring; debt enforcement; and corporate, director and shareholder disputes. Ben previously gained experience at the firm as a paralegal and trainee solicitor where he completed seats in the firm's Corporate, Finance and Funds, International Private Client and Trusts and UK Property teams, as well as the Dispute Resolution team.

Ben is an Advocate and Senior Associate in the Financial Services and Regulatory team. Ben advises on all aspects of commercial law with a particular focus on banking and finance (including real estate finance, Islamic finance and fund finance), mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Ben regularly works with our BVI, Cayman and Jersey corporate and trust teams on cross-jurisdictional finance, corporate and trust matters. Ben also assists the Corporate, Finance and Funds team in their other core areas including funds, data protection and risk and regulatory.

Ben is a Guernsey Advocate and Partner of Collas Crill's Private Client and Trusts team. His practice is focused on contentious and semi-contentious trust work, advising both trustees and beneficiaries and appearing in the Royal Court in Guernsey on those matters. He has a particular interest in the issues around the succession to wealth by the next generation. Recent work: Acting for the beneficiary of a trust in a proposed restructuring of an UHNW family's wealth following a dispute with their trustee. Planning for the splintering-off of our client's interests, and negotiating the necessary protections. Acting for the corporate trustee of a discretionary trust settled for the benefit of the Settlor's children. The Settlor was domiciled in a jurisdiction in which Sharia law would have applied on succession. The trust imported aspects of Sharia law, while also providing for the settlor's daughters. A family dispute resulted in various challenges relating to the trust. Acting for the corporate trustee of a trust during the course of a significant family dispute. The aim was to divide the assets of the trust against a lack of any agreement between the beneficiaries as to how that should be done. Acting for two beneficiaries of a Guernsey trust in an application seeking disclosure of information from the trustees (who were family members) – Patel v Patel (Judgment 36/2016)

Cerisse is a Group Partner in the Private Client and Trusts team, joining in September 2018. She specialises in all aspects of Guernsey trust and private client law and regularly advises trustees, family offices, high net worth individuals and intermediaries on the creation, restructuring and winding up of trusts and a wide scope of cross-jurisdictional fiduciary transactions. Cerisse has invaluable experience working within a trust company on both legal and direct client matters. She has a broad knowledge of the challenges and pitfalls for trustees plus the practical aspects of trusteeship and requirements of corporate service providers and their clients.

Partner. Chantelle has extensive experience with various investment fund structures, including hedge funds, private equity funds, technology and venture capital funds, cryptocurrency funds, segregated portfolio companies and unit trusts. She has worked on a variety of corporate matters including joint ventures, SPACs, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and migrations. She also advises on regulatory matters, including data protection, economic substance, beneficial ownership, FATCA/CRS, VASP and fintech matters, as well as CIMA enforcement matters for corporate service providers.

Christian is global head of the Private Client and Trusts team. He leads a team of talented lawyers across Guernsey, Jersey and Cayman with strong expertise in contentious and non-contentious trust and estate matters. Christian is a CEDR-accredited mediator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He regularly acts as mediator or arbitrator in trust, financial services and commercial disputes in Guernsey and Jersey. Christian is among the leading commercial litigators at the Guernsey Bar with a particular expertise in contentious trust related matters and corporate disputes. Christian has extensive experience of financial services related litigation and particular expertise in contentious trust and probate related matters. As well as acting for trust companies, local banks and other financial services businesses on routine contentious issues, he has represented parties to some of the most substantial and significant proceedings before the Royal Court of Guernsey in recent years.

Associate. Ciara is an Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. Her practice includes commercial litigation across a wide range of financial and commercial disputes relating to investment funds, commercial contracts, economic valuation, shareholder agreements, breaches of director duties and cross-border insolvency. Ciara was awarded the The Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA) Rising Star Award in 2021.

Counsel. Dave has a broad civil and commercial litigation practice in the BVI, appearing before all Courts in the Territory up to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. He specialises in insolvency and restructuring; director and shareholder disputes; contentious probate matters; employment disputes; contentious trusts; and fraud, asset tracing and freezing injunctions.

David is a Partner in the Private Client and Trusts team in Guernsey. He has a broad experience of commercial litigation and professional negligence matters, often with cross-border or jurisdictional issues.He has a broad experience of commercial litigation and professional negligence matters, often with cross-border or jurisdictional issues. His primary areas of focus are: Trust Matters David has acted for trustees, investment banks and beneficiaries in contentious or semi-contentious matters, such as defending trustees against claims for breach of trust, acting in relation to variations of trust and advising trustees and beneficiaries on their obligations and rights in respect of the trusts. Recent public matters include: Walker et al –v- Egerton-Vernon et al in which David acted for one of the former trustees of a settlement established by the late entrepreneur Jack Walker in defending a claim in excess of £100 million (and settled on confidential terms). Corporate Disputes David advises directors, shareholders and corporate service providers on contentious corporate matters such as shareholder or board disputes, claims against directors and advice on issues such as potential conflicts of interest. Recent work includes acting for the Independent Directors in Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in liquidation) and ors –v- Conway Jr and ors in their successful defence of a claim for in excess of $1 billion brought by the liquidators of Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in liquidation).

David is a Consultant in the Financial Services and Regulatory team. He has more than 30 years' experience in corporate law, having practiced for over 20 years in Guernsey and ten years in London prior to that. He specialises in corporate finance, insurance, offshore funds, trusts and regulatory issues and is highly regarded as one of Guernsey's leading corporate lawyers. He is also a non-executive director of a number of investment and insurance companies, both listed and unlisted.

David is a Senior Associate in the Private Client and Trusts team, with over 15 years' experience of general litigation, with a particular focus on contentious wills and estates, as well as high value personal injury and complex medical negligence actions. David advises on all aspects of contentious wills and estates matters, including claims for financial provision under the Inheritance (Guernsey) Law, 2011, challenges to the validity of a Will on the grounds of undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval, and also contested executorship applications. His personal injury and medical negligence practice sees him accept instructions from both Plaintiffs and Defendants, and has represented some of the largest insurers in the UK. He has a particular focus on high-value RTAs, complex brain injury and birth defect/traumatic birth cases. David is also admitted as solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the territory of the Virgin Islands, where he has been heavily involved in providing assistance to our BVI Dispute Resolution Team in a number of significant medical negligence cases being litigated in the BVI High Court

Associate. Dawn is an Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman, having joined Collas Crill in September 2019.

Ellie is BVI Managing Partner and Head of Financial Services and Regulatory across the Caribbean. Ellie practises BVI and Cayman laws and advises on all elements of corporate, capital markets and banking transactions as well as restructurings. Her clients include leading onshore law firms, private equity investors, major international financial institutions, listed and private companies and British Virgin Islands statutory and public bodies. Ellie has been practising since 2006 and has built a global client base, advising on top-ticket corporate, finance and capital markets transactions in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Her experience practising and living in Western Europe, the CIS, Asia and the Caribbean brings a nuanced cultural understanding to complex, cross-border transactions with global stakeholders. Ellie has maintained recommendations by Legal 500 and IFLR since 2015. In 2020, she was recommended and recognised by Legal 500 as a 'Leading Individual' and in 2024 she was ranked in Band 4 in Chambers & Partners . She was nominated by peers as Lawyer of the Year in BVI Finance's 2020 Financial Services Awards.

Emma is an Advocate and Senior Associate in the Private Client and Trusts team in Guernsey. Emma advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on contentious and semi-contentious trust matters. She regularly advises corporate trustees and beneficiaries alike on the full spectrum of trust disputes from breach of trust claims to information requests. In addition to trust matters, Emma regularly assists clients in respect of commercial disputes and contentious risk and regulatory matters, including enforcement action. Emma also has considerable experience acting for Insured parties.

Fay is an Associate within the firm's Commercial Dispute Resolution Department, based in the British Virgin Islands. She is admitted to practice as a solicitor in the British Virgin Islands and England & Wales.

Gareth is Group Partner in the Financial Services and Regulatory team, working primarily in the areas of banking and corporate finance, security, investment funds and listings. Gareth has extensive experience with high value, complex, multi-jurisdictional structures and regularly advises both institutional and private lenders at all stages of the lending process. He also regularly advises clients on the establishment of all types of regulated investment fund structures, both open and closed-ended, and issuers of structured debt.

Gareth is a litigation lawyer who specialises in trust, company (including directors' duties), insolvency, professional negligence and other financial services disputes. He also has an active practice in semi-contentious trust matters. A qualified Guernsey Advocate, Gareth is the firm's Guernsey Managing Partner and leads its Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team on the island. Gareth has been involved in a number of trials in the Royal Court of Guernsey and several appeals to the Court of Appeal and Privy Council. He acted for the successful non-executive director defendants in the long running, multi-billion dollar Carlyle litigation that eventually concluded in 2020. He also recently acted for the Registrar of the Chambre de Discipline (the disciplinary body for Advocates) on the first ever appeal of a disciplinary matter to the Court of Appeal, where he was successful

Partner and Local Practice Head of the Real Estate team in the Cayman Islands. Gina’s brand of excellence is well known especially in the Cayman Islands, which she has called home for more than 20 years. She maintains an unblemished reputation for accurately getting the job done, listening to and caring for her clients, seamlessly navigating tight timelines, bringing additional value to transactions and exceeding clients’ expectations. Gina’s breadth of experience includes conveyancing and real property law, probate and estate administration, planning and development law, corporate and commercial law. She represents many of Cayman’s “Class A” banks and also conducts a full real estate practice servicing a wide range of international and local clients. Gina is ranked in Band 2 in Chambers and Partners and recognised as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 2024. She was ranked as Recommended in Who's Who Legal (WWL) in 2024.

Partner. Greg is one of the BVI’s most experienced transactional lawyers with more than 15 years' experience in BVI law and more than 20 years of cross-border corporate finance law experience. He joined Collas Crill in 2023. He is a specialist in cross-border corporate and finance transactions with particular expertise in using the progressive corporate laws of the BVI to protect investment into emerging markets thereby promoting project viability. Greg works with a broad spectrum of clients that includes financial institutions, public and private businesses, private equity funds, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and start-ups. He collaborates with international clients on cross-border transactions spanning seed and series capital raising rounds, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), corporate reorganisations, IPOs and take privates. In addition to advising on market-leading transactions, he works to maximise investment and sustainability using the BVI Company and BVI Corporate Law to attract multinational investment and reduce corporate risk. Over the years, he has advised many multilateral lending agencies, development financial institutions and private equity firms on their emerging market and frontier market investments. Greg has strong expertise in M&A, joint ventures, shareholding arrangements, public and private equity, group restructurings and secured financings, having advised on many of the BVI's ground-breaking (and record-breaking) transactions.

Harry Rasmussen

Counsel. Harry is an offshore litigator with experience in managing high-profile, high-value, complex commercial disputes, including through to trial. He specialises in shareholder disputes, including s.238 'fair value' appraisal proceedings. Harry has more than a decade's experience managing complex cross-border litigation, including high-profile insolvency and restructuring mandates. Routinely acting for the world's pre-eminent investment managers and institutional shareholders, he is a leading and trusted advisor to clients dealing with s.238 merger appraisal disputes and has acted on the most prominent and high-value matters to come before the Cayman courts. Harry's experience includes advising the largest ever group of dissenting shareholders litigating the c.$9billion privatisation of 58.com; and the largest body of dissenting shareholders in the matter of Nord Anglia, successfully securing hundreds of millions of dollars at trial. Before moving to the Cayman Islands, Harry worked in England at some of the world's largest law firms, focussing on risk management, litigation, and investigations for household-name commercial clients, governments, and local authorities. He joined Collas Crill in 2024. Harry is listed by Legal 500 2020 as a 'key lawyer'. He is presently engaged on several multi-billion-dollar s.238 appraisal disputes proceedings through the Cayman court. Harry is conversant with the key principles underpinning expert valuation and has successfully completed the Harvard (online) Certificate in Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers.

James is a Partner in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team and is based in Guernsey. James advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on insolvency matters. He regularly advises insolvency practitioners, creditors and directors alike on all aspect of insolvency matters from appointments to directions applications. Additionally, James has experience in contentious trusts matters. James advises on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with a particular focus on insolvency matters. He regularly advises insolvency practitioners, creditors and directors alike on all aspect of insolvency matters from appointments to directions applications. Additionally, James has experience regarding other matters in the core areas of the Dispute Resolution team including Corporate Disputes and Contentious Trusts.

Associate. Janeen has more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry in the Cayman Islands. She is also a qualified attorney at law, licensed to practice in both the Cayman Islands and New York State. Janeen has a broad practice advising clients on various transactional matters, as well as private client estate and succession planning. Additionally, she advises on various regulatory and local licencing matters and has acted as an independent director on a wide range of alternative investment funds. Previously, Janeen has advised on the relocation of a ultra HNW family office to Cayman advising on all Regulatory and Estate Planning aspects.

Jason is the Senior Partner of Collas Crill, and global head of the firm's Real Estate team. Jason acts for numerous high net-worth individuals with property portfolios as well as banks, companies and other clients with commercial and residential property portfolios. He also acts for high net-worth individuals moving to Guernsey and sits on the Guernsey Property Forum. The role of Senior Partner encompasses being an ambassador for the Collas Crill group across its offices in Guernsey, Jersey, Cayman and BVI, and raising its profile across the globe. As the most senior figure within the firm, Jason is involved in the strategic direction and decision making of the firm.

Jazzmin Le Prevost

Jazz is an Associate in the Private Client and Trusts team in Guernsey. Jazzmin has experience in family and matrimonial law, as well as most general litigation matters, having worked in dispute resolution for a number of years.

Jessica Burgess

Jessica is an Associate in the Private Client and Trusts team in Guernsey.

Joanne is a Group Partner in the Private Client and Trusts team. Having led an international offshore private client practice for over 10 years, she now heads up our wills and estates services in Guernsey. Joanne specialises in estate planning and advising on inheritance matters, focusing on complex wills for both local and non-resident individuals. She advises on all aspects of estate administration, from undertaking executorships, advising on Guernsey's probate procedures, dealing with intestacies (where someone has died without a will), to preparing instruments of variation and obtaining Guernsey grants of probate and representation. Joanne and her team also advise upon local guardianships and powers of attorney, and the recognition of foreign equivalents, property matters with estate connections and a variety of other private client matters. Joanne also acts as the Primary Deputy Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of Guernsey which oversees the issuing of documentation such as grants of representation and local marriage licences. Advising UHNW individual (GBP £700+ million) in relation to his estate planning and potential claims against his estate post death. Acting as lead advisor for UHNW client with assets in C.I., South Africa and Scotland co-ordinating multi jurisdiction team of lawyers and tax advisors in relation to lifetime succession planning and involving trusts, foundations and will drafting. Acting for HNW individual (GBP £75+ million) in relation to estate planning and the establishment of trust structures over Guernsey, Canadian and French company assets. Acting as Attorney for HNW individual with physical incapacity (management of assets with value in excess of £2+ million).

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.

Laura is an Associate in the Private Client and Trusts team.

Matthew Harders

Senior Associate. Matthew is a highly skilled commercial litigation attorney with a focus on insolvency, restructuring, and debt recovery. He joined Collas Crill's Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team as a Senior Associate in October 2024 and is based in the Cayman Islands. Matthew has substantial experience in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring, financial services and general commercial litigation practice, including complex contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, trusts and trust management, urgent and interlocutory injunctions, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, restructuring and schemes of arrangement, asset recovery, secured and unsecured debt recovery and security enforcement. Matthew practiced in Australia for more than five years before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2023. Previously a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Litigation team of Thomson Geer Lawyers, Matthew was the only solicitor within Thomson Geer engaged directly by upper management to recover debts owed to the Firm on a national basis, successfully recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to the Firm, slashing the Firm's Bad Debts liability.

Partner. Matthew is a Partner in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team and is based in the Cayman Islands specialising in high-value and high-profile cross-border commercial litigation, insolvency and restructuring. Matthew has particular expertise in complex cross-border insolvencies and restructurings and regularly advises and represents liquidators and stakeholders in relation to contentious and non-contentious matters, including seeking court assistance for foreign insolvency proceedings. He has regularly advised financial institutions in relation to fraud and asset recovery matters (including obtaining urgent relief such as freezing injunctions and disclosure orders). Prior to moving to Cayman in 2013, Matthew practiced for a number of years as a Barrister in England and Wales, with a focus on complex trust, insolvency and property disputes. He has extensive advocacy experience, having regularly appeared in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Matthew is listed as a recommended lawyer in Legal 500 2024 and in Band 5 in Chambers and Partners.

Michael is global head of the firm's Financial Services and Regulatory team and has previously acted as Head of Litigation and Managing Partner of the firm's BVI Office. He is a litigation lawyer, specialising in insolvency, regulatory/ public law, trust and other financial services disputes. Michael is a qualified Guernsey Advocate and BVI Attorney and maintains an active litigation practice in both jurisdictions. Since joining Collas Crill in 2009, Michael has taken a leading role in a number of significant and high profile matters, including advising the liquidators of Landsbanki Guernsey Limited in relation to all aspects of the liquidation of the £120 million Guernsey subsidiary of the failed Icelandic Bank, and Sark Electricity Limited in its challenge to the implementation of pricing regulation. Michael is frequently instructed for individuals and companies in disputes with regulatory bodies and state agencies. In 2019, Michael was appointed to a four year term as Chairman of the Complaints Panel of the Administrative Decision Review Board.

Natascha Steiner-Smith

Counsel. Natascha has a wide range of experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration. Her practice is focused on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes arising out of commercial contracts, shareholders agreements as well as disputes involving financial institutions and high net-worth individuals. She regularly advises shareholders, insolvency practitioners, banks and energy companies in cross-border proceedings. Natascha also has experience acting in section 238 fair value appraisal proceedings.

Nicholas Batten

Senior Associate. Nick joined Collas Crill in 2024. He is an experienced commercial litigator who has acted for a mix of public companies, large private corporations and high net worth individuals in the Federal Court of Australia and State Supreme Courts. Nick has nine years' post-admission experience working as a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills' litigation team in Melbourne. Prior to that, he worked at the boutique litigation firm Arnold Bloch Liebler and before that at MinterEllison in Australia. Nick has experience acting for both Australian and US subsidiaries of Bayer in relation to alleged carcinogenicity of glyphosate-based products in Federal Court of Australia, as well as acting for a 'Big Four' Australian bank and (separately) ASX100 public.

Nin is a Group Partner in the Financial Services and Regulatory team and is based in Guernsey. She is a well established dispute resolution practitioner with a loyal client base comprising finance services businesses and those from other regulated sectors, spanning risk and regulatory, corporate disputes and contentious trust matters many of which have multi-jurisdictional/international elements. She leads the risk and regulatory team in Guernsey to deliver a seamless offering to clients with complex and varied needs. Nin works closely with the Jersey-based risk and regulatory team to ensure that clients with a presence across the Channel Islands are able to receive a blended Channel Islands service. Nin has a strong sanctions practice that extends across transactional, advisory and contentious matters and is an expert in this legally complex and important developing area of practice. Nin has an established international network where clients require cross-jurisdictional sanctions advice.

Paul is a Consultant in the Financial Services and Regulatory team. He advises on all elements of investment fund establishment, regulation and downstream transactional work. His clients include venture capital, private equity, real estate and hedge fund managers based in the key fund markets of London, New York and Asia with a fast-growing following in South Africa. Always having taken a commercially-minded approach, in 2021 Paul moved to a consultancy role with the firm alongside an external position as founding partner of a venture capital firm. This brings unique and invaluable experience and perspective to the team in advising fund managers.

Paul Nettleship

Paul is a Partner and heads up the Real Estate team in Guernsey. He has a broad practice covering local real estate and private client matters. This includes advising on commercial property development, acquisitions, and disposals (both freehold and leasehold); funding and security over real property; planning matters; property disputes; and small business acquisitions and disposals. He acts for landlords, tenants, funders, brokers, P2P lenders, and private and high street banks. As well as Paul's commercial property business, his private client practice includes advising and acting for clients moving to the island, will drafting and inheritance matters, and guardianship issues. He generally oversees the firm's conveyancing practice.

Quentin is a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Guernsey. Quentin specialises in complex commercial litigation with a focus on financial services, insolvency and regulatory disputes. Whilst on secondment working in-house in the litigation team of a large global bank, he dealt with a variety of commercial disputes. He regularly advises clients on a variety of commercial disputes, including those involving contracts, debt recovery, insolvency and professional negligence. He has a particular interest in cross-border litigation and freezing orders.

Partner. Rocco leads Collas Crill's market-leading s.238 merger appraisal team and is a highly sought after and trusted advisor to shareholders in merger appraisal disputes. His clients include some of the world's leading investment managers and institutional shareholders. Rocco has unparalleled experience and expertise in merger appraisal litigation and has acted for shareholders in most of the major cases, including 51job, Inc., New Frontier Health Corporation, SINA Corporation, 58.com Limited, Changyou.com Ltd, eHi Car Services Ltd, Bitauto Holdings Limited, China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc., Nord Anglia Education, iKang Healthcare Group, Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd, Zhaopin Limited, and Kongzhong Corporation. He has also advised shareholders on numerous other Cayman Islands mergers which have not proceeded to litigation. Rocco regularly advises shareholders of Cayman Islands companies on a range of matters including disputes against investment funds, derivative actions, and just and equitable winding ups involving minority oppression. Rocco also regularly acts as Cayman Islands counsel in respect of United States securities actions brought by shareholders against Cayman Islands companies. In addition to his shareholder disputes practice, Rocco has a busy insolvency and commercial litigation practice. He acts for creditors, Cayman Islands liquidators and US SEC-appointed receivers.

Ronan O'Doherty

Senior Associate. Ronan is a Senior Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team, specialising in cross-border commercial litigation, contentious high value insolvency and section 238 'fair value' appraisal proceedings. Ronan regularly advises shareholders, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions and private individuals in a wide variety of cross-border proceedings. He has extensive experience advising clients in relation to insolvency matters including liquidations, receiverships, complex restructuring and enforcement options as well as commercial disputes, injunctions and company related applications.

Counsel. Sally specialises in both contentious and non-contentious international trusts and private client work. As a commercial litigator, Sally has experience in shareholder disputes, and insolvency litigation and general commercial disputes. She has more than 13 years of experience working offshore, in both Cayman and Guernsey. Sally regularly advises trustees, high net worth individuals, family offices and charitable organisations on the establishment, restructuring and administration of trust structures, including in relation to the use of STAR trusts, Foundation Companies and private trust companies. Sally also advises on trust matters relating to the establishment and administration of investment funds structured as unit trusts, pension trusts and employee benefit trusts. Sally has significant experience in relation to trust litigation matters, including in relation to applications for directions, court blessings, mistake and rectification, as well as grants of probate and letters of administration, and resealing foreign grants. Prior to moving to Cayman in December 2016, Sally worked in Guernsey and in Australia for several years.

Simon is a Partner in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. Simon has more than 15 years of multi-jurisdictional litigation and alternative dispute resolution experience and specialises in high-value commercial and trust litigation (including 'trust busting'), enforcement and asset-tracing and cross-border insolvency matters. Simon has extensive experience in dispute resolution matters and has been involved in some of the Island's largest and most complex cases, most recently in the Privy Council in the Z Trusts saga. He regularly appears before the Jersey courts at all levels. Simon has refined his practice to focus on commercial and trust litigation, enforcement and asset recovery (including the obtaining of urgent injunctive relief and trust 'busting') and cross-border insolvency. He is regularly instructed to advise office holders, boards of companies, creditors and shareholders. Simon's reputation as a leader in his respective fields continues to grow. He has been praised for his strong technical skills, attention to detail and for having a 'real world' approach to the law. He is regularly instructed by large onshore firms in complex cross-jurisdictional matters with a Jersey element and has a strong local network. In 2024, Simon became the first lawyer and one of only four individuals in the Channel Islands to be recognised as an INSOL Fellow, having passed the Global Insolvency Practice Course. Simon relocated to the Cayman Islands from Jersey in October 2024, having previously spent a number of years there prior to his stint in the Channel Islands.

Simon is a Group Partner the Financial Services and Regulatory team. Simon advises on all aspects of commercial law, with a particular focus on public equity and debt, banking and finance (including real estate, private client and fund finance), private equity investment and mergers and acquisitions. Simon regularly leads cross border matters involving our Guernsey, Jersey, BVI and Cayman teams and acts as lead counsel to a number of Guernsey based Banks and family offices. Recent highlights: Acting for Credit Agricole in respect of their €50bn Structured Debt Instruments Issuance Programme. Acting for SafeCharge International Group Limited, an AIM Listed company, on its successful $889m takeover by the Nuvei Corporation by way of a Guernsey scheme of arrangement. Advising Pizza Hut UK on the early settlement and de-listing of their TISE listed debt securities as part of their wider CVA. Acting for Intertrust in their €500m bond issuance and the refinance of their existing debt facility. Acting for Ferro-Alloy Resources in their migration from the BVI and joint listing on London and Kazak Stock Exchanges. Acting as lead counsel to a Guernsey family office in the acquisition of two Guernsey commercial real estate companies. Acting for Fairtree Hospitality Real Estate Private Equity Limited Partnership in the refinance of their group's property investment portfolio.

Stephen Leontsinis

Stephen is Managing Partner in the Cayman Islands and the Global Head of the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team. He has a demonstrated history of advocacy in the practice of corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on offshore insolvency and restructuring of companies. Stephen's practice has a strong focus on company law including corporate insolvency; schemes of arrangements; capital reductions; shareholder disputes; director's liability; international asset tracing; the enforcement of foreign judgments; worldwide Mareva injunctions, Anton Piller orders, and Norwich Pharmacal orders. Stephen has significant contentious litigation experience arising from the representation of both liquidators, shareholders and creditors of companies and hedge funds including the claw back of fraudulent conveyances and undue preferences, allegations of investment fraud and investment manager disputes. Since he began heading up our team of Cayman litigators, Stephen has grown the team from two to eight lawyers, all with a strong background in insolvency and restructuring matters. Prior to joining the firm Stephen spent two and a half years in Miami as a member of a boutique litigation firm in the United States which focused on cross border insolvency and trust disputes.

Steve is an Associate in the Financial Services and Regulatory team in Guernsey where he is building a broad practice in corporate advisory, acquisitions, collective investment schemes, payment services regulations and financial services regulation. He has experience and a specific interest in cryptoassets and FinTech applications, particularly with the tokenisation of real-world assets, investment schemes offered to retail consumers and the use of cryptoassets in collective investment vehicles.

Thomas Cutts-Watson

Tom is an Senior associate in the Private Client and Trusts team in Guernsey. He regularly assists with the large financial services-based litigation and trust disputes for which the firm is well known. His practice extends beyond these matters, though, touching on a range of contentious and non-contentious areas for clients in Guernsey and abroad. Tom has recently advised on a host of debt recovery matters, property disputes and nuisance claims and has hands-on experience of the full range of resolution options available to clients – from early mediation to trial. Tom's non-contentious work includes employment and local housing licence advice (to both employers and employees) as well as licensing advice to individual landlords and the hospitality industry in the Bailiwick.

Associate. Tom is an Associate in the Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team in Cayman. He joined Collas Crill in 2024 and was admitted as an Attorney in the Cayman Islands in September 2024. Tom has experience in advising clients across a wide range of contentious matters, including large-scale litigation, insolvency proceedings, regulatory investigations and prosecutions, commissions of inquiry and alternative dispute resolution.

Wayne is a Partner and heads up the Financial Services and Regulatory team in the Channel Islands. He is a qualified Guernsey Advocate and BVI Attorney. Wayne works with a broad range of regulated entities and investment funds on fundraising, transaction and investment structuring, commercial contracts and mergers and acquisitions. As one of the leaders of Collas Crill's risk and regulatory team he also regularly advises businesses on regulatory compliance including money-laundering issues, listing rules requirements, competition law, data protection, ESG matters and Guernsey financial services regulation more generally. Wayne has built considerable expertise in assisting company boards and activist shareholders in relation to contentious general meetings and associated issues arising out of investor actions. A regular speaker at seminars and conferences in relation to company law, regulatory and fund matters, Wayne is well known for his down-to-earth plain speaking approach to explaining complex legal and regulatory issues

Partner. Zachary is an experienced offshore litigator with significant experience in trusts and financial services litigation, section 238 'fair value' appraisal proceedings and professional indemnity/insurance litigation.Zachary is also experienced in advising and assisting financial institutions that are the subject of regulatory investigations and proposed enforcement actions, and in advising trustees, beneficiaries, settlors, enforcers and protectors in relation to non-contentious and semi-contentious trust matters. Prior to joining Collas Crill, Zachary spent 10 years at another leading offshore law firm in both Guernsey and the Cayman Islands. He has completed the STEP advanced certificate in trust disputes, and has been recognised as 'one to watch' by the prestigious Private Client Global Elite in both 2019 and 2020.

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