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Alison Antill

Alison Antill is a senior associate in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Guernsey. Alison advises on corporate and commercial disputes and trust litigation, with a particular interest in insolvency. She also has experience in regulatory investigations and GFSC enforcement proceedings. Alison has been an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey since December 2021 and has been practising in Guernsey since 2018. Prior to returning to Guernsey, Alison practised as a solicitor in England. Alongside her legal practice, Alison is the Guernsey Bar Secretary as a member of the Guernsey Bar Council. She is a member of the Guernsey International Legal Association (GILA), the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES) and the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTra).

Sarah Ash

Sarah leads Walkers' Channel Islands Employment Law Group and is the head of our Employment team in Guernsey. She advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. Sarah advises companies in sectors ranging from financial services, insurance and legal to media on: tribunal claims and procedure contracts of employment internal grievance and disciplinary matters managing sickness absence misconduct and capability issues dismissals discrimination employment policies and procedures redundancies aspects of mergers, acquisitions and disposals. She has been seconded to Employment Legal and HR teams, and has spent time in a major international bank where she gained experience of employment matters from a client’s perspective.

Sarah Ball

Sarah Ball is an associate in Walker's Guernsey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and advises on contentious trusts matters, insolvencies, and commercial litigation. Sarah has onshore and offshore experience in advising on a wide range of disputes, working with corporates and HNWIs, mainly on cross-border matters.

Jamie Bookless

Jamie Bookless is a Partner in Walkers' Guernsey office advising on disputes and regulatory matters involving regulated businesses and structures in Guernsey. He has been in private practice for 20 years and has been working offshore since 2015. Jamie's regulatory practice primarily focuses on advice to regulated and licensed businesses on a wide variety of matters including AML and CFT related issues, GFSC investigations and remediation programmes, data protection, SARs and sanctions. His disputes practice focuses on complex and high-value commercial disputes and insolvency matters, as well as disputes related to competition law and data protection. Jamie regularly acts for large commercial clients, corporate trustees, major accountancy firms and investment banks. Jamie works with both Walkers' global Insolvency & Dispute Resolution practice, and Walkers' global Regulatory & Risk Advisory practice.

Sarah Brehaut

Sarah is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group specialising in contentious insolvency and regulatory disputes. She is an experienced court-going Advocate who frequently represents liquidators in respect of contentious and non-contentious matters before Guernsey's Royal Court in relation to compulsory and voluntary winding-up, and holds the BPP Certificate of Proficiency in Corporate Insolvency (for which she received the highest exam result in the country). Sarah also advises and represents directors of regulated entities in respect of regulatory investigations and disputes. She has significant experience in all aspects of commercial dispute as well as considerable experience of appearing in the Magistrate’s Court, Royal Court and Court of Appeal.

Danielle Brouard

Danielle Brouard is a Senior Counsel in the Walkers' Employment practice group and advises on all aspects of employment law, focusing in particular on discrimination and employment-related disputes. Danielle spent 14 years practising in the London office of a major international law firm, working across the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Her core practice involves: drafting and negotiating employment documentation, including restrictive covenants assisting with HR processes and employee relations matters representing clients in employment tribunal litigation advising on employment aspects of transactions assisting with the relocation of employees into Guernsey advising on pension issues Danielle also has in-house experience, having undertaken a six-month client secondment with British Airways, advising on employee relations and trade union issues.

Adam Cole

Advocate Adam Cole is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution team, with wide commercial litigation experience and a particular interest in contentious insolvency matters, regulatory enforcement referrals and trust disputes. He has been practising for over a decade and has been admitted in Guernsey since 2014. Prior to that Adam worked with a major international firm in London, specialising in insurance-related litigation. Adam is a member of the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES) and was awarded a Distinction for the STEP Advanced Certificate in International Trusts Disputes.

Craig Cordle

Craig is an asset management lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in private practice. This includes all aspects of structuring, restructuring, merging, selling, establishing and operating listed and private investment funds, private equity funds, real-estate funds, single-asset vehicles and all other collective investment arrangements. He regularly advises on mergers and acquisition of private and listed companies, schemes of arrangement, and regulatory and competition issues. In addition, following his extensive experience of working on capital markets transactions in the UK, he continues to work with companies listed on stock markets in London and across Europe. He has been consistently recognised for the quality of his advice by Chambers UK, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. Admitted in: Guernsey England & Wales

Grace Cummings

Associate

Mutsa Dodzo

Senior Associate

Charlotte Gonçalves

Charlotte is a partner in Walkers' Investment Funds & Corporate Practice Group in Guernsey and has been practising in the jurisdiction since 2013, qualifying as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2016 and admitted as a Guernsey Advocate in 2022. Charlotte advises on all aspects of Guernsey corporate and regulatory law across the financial and insurance markets, most notably in the asset management and investment funds industry. In her investment funds practice Charlotte advises investment fund sponsors and other stakeholders in respect of the full range of private and public investment funds and other collective investment arrangements, including in relation to the formation (both open and closed ended), ongoing operation (including regulatory compliance, sales and acquisitions, transfers of limited partner interests, extensions), restructuring and end-of-life for funds. Her broader corporate and regulatory practice includes advisory work in relation to the range of Guernsey corporate structures, including in relation to economic substance, data protection and corporate governance/best practice. Charlotte has been recognised for the quality of her work by Legal 500, who have rated her as a Rising Star for Corporate & M&A and for Capital Markets. Admitted in: Guernsey England & Wales (not practising)

Samantha Gramoney

Samantha is an Associate in the Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds and Corporate Practice Group, with experience across a wide range of listed and unlisted Investment Funds and Corporate Law matters. Having practised onshore as a corporate lawyer at top-tier regional and international law firms Samantha has experience working on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and negotiation of contracts. More recently, Samantha has worked in the Guernsey Corporate Funds team of a London Listed Fund Administrator where she gained several years of cross-jurisdictional governance and operational experience in Investment Funds and Financial Services. She has experience across the full life-cycle, being establishment, acquisitions, divestments and termination of Investments Funds of a wide range of asset classes including private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency.

Rebecca Hale

Rebecca Hale is an senior associate in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Guernsey. Rebecca advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial disputes including contentious trust matters, administrations and insolvencies, regulatory matters and general civil and commercial litigation. She has been practising in Guernsey since 2016, and works with a broad range of clients including financial institutions and trust companies on complex cross-border matters.

Zoë Hallam

Zoë Hallam is a Group Partner in the Banking & Finance team in Walkers' Guernsey office, having previously spent eight years in the firm's Cayman office.Zoë advises on a broad range of finance-related matters, with a specialised focus on Fund Finance, Real Estate Finance and Islamic Finance transactions. In the Fund Finance sector she has advised both borrowers and lender on subscription facilities, NAV facilities and GP financing and her clients include leading international banks, alternative lenders and fund managers.

Chris Hutley-Hurst

Chris Hutley-Hurst heads up the Walkers' Channel Islands Regulatory and Risk Advisory Group. Chris is a Guernsey Advocate, with more than 20 years' experience in private practice in Guernsey, London and New York. He specialises in financial services regulation, digital assets and corporate tax. Chris advises on Guernsey regulatory matters, covering fintech, digital assets, financial services, licensing regimes, consumer lending, data protection and GDPR, beneficial ownership and anti-money laundering. He advises various financial services businesses, including banks, payment providers, CSPs, fund administrators and asset managers. Having worked as a tax lawyer previously, he has a unique experience in international tax matters, including VAT and GST. He advises on Guernsey and Jersey corporate tax (including Pillar 2), economic substance requirements, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the OECD's Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), together with other initiatives. Chris is the author of the Bloomberg Tax Guide Guernsey chapter. He is also a board member for the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce.

Lauren James

Associate

Jarrad Knoetze

Jarrad Knoetze is a senior associate in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution practice group and advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial disputes, including insolvency and trust disputes. Jarrad also advises on contentious and non-contentious regulatory matters, with a focus on matters relating to data protection, AML and CFT related issues, GFSC investigations and remediation programmes and SARs. He has been practising in Guernsey since 2019, and works with clients including financial institutions, trust companies and onshore law firms. He spent more than three years in the dispute resolution team of a major South African law firm before moving offshore in 2019.

Helena Lavin

Helena Lavin is a Partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Group, specialising in contentious trust and insolvency matters. She is a Guernsey Advocate and has been practising in Guernsey for around eleven years– prior to that she worked in the Middle East, and with a leading national law firm in England. Helena has broad expertise acting for and advising predominantly international clients in disputes often with a multi-jurisdictional element. She is a founder of the Channel Islands Chapter of the International Womens Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and she has a particular interest in contentious insolvency and trust matters. Her cases have involved acting for trustees beneficiaries and other parties to trusts in seeking disclosure from trustees, obtaining injunctive relief pertaining to trust assets, applications to vary trusts and challenged Beddoe applications. She also has extensive experience acting for insolvency office holders, directors, shareholders and other stakeholders and corporate entities in a wide range of disputes covering breach of fiduciary duties, professional negligence, enforcement of judgments and contested winding up proceedings.

Martha Male

Martha is a senior associate in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Guernsey. She advises on a range of commercial, trust, insolvency, and regulatory disputes, and her clients include governments, banks, companies, trustees, families, and individuals. She has practised law in England, the British Virgin Islands, and most recently in Guernsey, and is dual qualified as a solicitor-advocate in England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands.

Gareth Morgan

Gareth is a group partner in our Investment Funds & Corporate practice group where he specialises in complex fund and corporate structuring. He advises fund managers, institutional investors and local financial institutions on the establishment, restructuring and ongoing operation of investment funds across a wide range of asset classes. Gareth also has extensive experience on relocating investment structures into and out of Guernsey, helping clients manage jurisdictional shifts with minimal disruption and regulatory risk. In the private capital space, Gareth supports clients with the structuring of bespoke holding platforms, co-investment arrangements and carried interest vehicles, often involving multi-jurisdictional considerations and close coordination with onshore counsel. His work also extends to advising fintech and digital asset businesses on fund formation and regulatory positioning in a fast-moving environment. Gareth also advises on a broad range of corporate transactions, with particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions involving regulated structures and international counterparties. He acts for buyers, sellers and investors across sectors, offering strategic guidance on deal structuring, regulatory approvals and post transaction matters, especially where fund or holding vehicle considerations are central to the transaction. *not admitted in Guernsey and not a member of Walkers (Guernsey) LLP

Rupert Morris

Rupert heads Walkers' Private Capital & Trusts practice group and has over 15 years’ experience as a private wealth specialist focusing on private client advisory and structuring work. Since qualifying as a Guernsey Advocate, Rupert also has experience as a contentious practitioner, appearing before the Guernsey courts at all levels. He is recognised as one of the leading lawyers in his field in Guernsey, and sits on the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ (STEP) worldwide council and is a former Chair of their Guernsey branch. Rupert’s clients include leading trust companies, financial institutions, government departments and ultra-high net worth individuals. He helps them with all aspects of local and cross-border advisory and structuring work, impact investment, charitable structures, and regulatory matters including tax investigations and dawn raids.

Shumona Neswar

Senior Associate

Victoria Pratt

Victoria is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Channel Islands Employment Practice Group, supporting the team across Guernsey and Jersey. Her employment law practice includes specialisms in data protection, executive exits and team moves and employment connected with regulated financial services business. Victoria's data protection work focuses on staff data (including data subject access requests and cross-border data transfers), frequently in the context of regulated industries, mergers & acquisitions and litigation. Her practice relating to senior exits and team moves involves advising both employers and employees on contentious exits and enforcement of post termination restrictions as well as constructive and unfair dismissal. Having worked as a commercial and fiduciary lawyer in London and Guernsey, and attaining STEP qualifications prior to specialising in employment work, Victoria has relevant experience of working within a regulated environment. Victoria is a Guernsey Advocate and also advises on housing and immigration matters.

Angela Proctor

Angela is a senior associate in Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds and Corporate Practice Group, with experience across a wide range of listed and unlisted investment funds and corporate law matters. Angela has experience working on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity multi-jurisdictional corporate restructuring as well as the establishment and restructuring of investment funds of a wide range of asset classes including private equity, real estate and energy. After qualifying in South Africa and gaining experience in private M&A at a top-tier law firm, Angela has worked in the offshore space at Walkers since 2019.

Jessica Robinson

Jessica Robinson is a senior counsel based in Walkers' Guernsey office, specialising in advising on M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and corporate finance matters. Her experience includes M&A transactions involving regulated trust company service providers, as well as a major Middle East acquisition for Amazon.com Inc. Jessica has worked in Walkers' BVI, Guernsey and Jersey offices, and advises on BVI, Cayman and Guernsey law. Prior to moving offshore, she practised in the London office of a major international firm for five years, during which time she completed two secondments with major banking clients. Jessica also completed another secondment with a major international bank in Jersey, providing training and designing and implementing robust internal legal procedures. Jessica speaks French.

Aaron Sanders

Senior Associate

Matt Sanders

Matt is the Managing Partner of Walkers' Guernsey office, where he specialises in investment funds and corporate matters. He is a Group Partner* with more than a decade's experience offshore, and works as part of Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds and Corporate teams on a wide variety of matters relating to the structuring and restructuring of investment funds and high value transactions involving Guernsey company law. He has particular expertise in respect of Guernsey Private Fund structures, and M&A deals involving regulated corporate service providers and trust companies. Matt's work includes advising on complex issues relating to funds, including having acted on the first conversion and migration of the cells of a Guernsey protected cell company to Malta. *Admitted in England & Wales and New Zealand – not admitted in Guernsey

William Schofield

William Schofield is a senior associate in Walkers' Investment Funds & Corporate group in Guernsey. William advises on all areas of corporate law within the jurisdiction's financial and insurance sectors. His M&A practice has seen him advise on some of Guernsey's most notable deals of the past few years and he has frequently advised where cross-border considerations have played a significant factor. He also has experience with deals involving the local regulators; the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and GCRA. William's investment funds practice features a broad range of clients including sovereign wealth funds and large private equity houses. He has a particular interest in restructuring and end-of-life funds and downstream private equity transactions.

Kellie Sherwill

Kellie specialises in commercial disputes and trust litigation. She also has experience advising on regulatory and banking matters, including compliance, corporate governance, and financial crime. She has experience of acting for a variety of clients on complex and high value matters. Kellie is a Senior Associate in the Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution team. She specialises in trust litigation acting for trustees, beneficiaries and protectors as well as in respect of non-contentious court applications and alternative dispute resolution. She also has transactional experience and has advised banks, companies, governments and individuals in relation to complex regulatory and banking matters, including compliance, corporate governance and financial crime and civil forfeiture matters. Kellie has represented clients in a variety of tribunals, including the employment tribunal and the Child, Youth and Community Tribunal.

Vikaash Singh

Vikaash is an associate in Walkers' Guernsey Investment Funds & Corporate team, advising on listed and unlisted funds and corporate law matters. Vikaash is an English-qualified solicitor who supports investment fund and corporate clients on a range of commercial matters. He acts across all stages of the fund lifecycle, in addition to cross-border corporate instructions, such as mergers and acquisitions and reorganisations.

Laurent Thibeault

Laurent is a Guernsey Advocate and Partner in Walker's Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group. He specialises in trust, finance and insolvency, and corporate disputes and advises leading global law firms, fiduciaries and high net-worth clients across these areas. Laurent has significant experience acting for trustees, beneficiaries and protectors in contentious matters as well as in respect of non-contentious court applications and wider negotiations. Having worked in the London and Paris offices of a Magic Circle firm's structured finance team and, previously, in financial restructuring and distressed debt, Laurent has a wealth of transactional experience and is uniquely placed to act on complex, cross-border contentious matters.

Jordan Trebert

Jordan Trebert is an associate in Walkers' Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Guernsey. Jordan advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial disputes, including insolvency disputes and contentious trust matters.

Marcél Treurnicht

Marcél Treurnicht is a Senior Counsel in the Walkers' Private Capital & Trusts practice group and specialises in advising clients on the establishment and use of Guernsey companies, trusts and foundations for both traditional private wealth and digital assets purposes (crypto and blockchain). Marcél's practice spans a range of areas, including traditional private wealth structures, employee benefit trusts, unit trusts and innovative trust structure tailored for the digital economy (crypto and blockchain). With a strong international background, Marcél brings valuable experience gained during his years in Hong Kong, where he advised on private wealth structures to assist wealthy families with tax mitigation, asset protection and succession planning. His corporate trust experience includes advising listed companies on the formation and implementation of employee benefit schemes in preparation for initial public offerings and/or secondary listings. In the digital economy, Marcél has worked with several of the largest decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) to develop trust structures that bridge the gap between traditional and digital economies while preserving decentralised principles. He has extensive experience in designing new trusts specifically for holding cryptoassets and monetising intellectual property assets connected to the blockchain space, as well as amending existing trusts, where feasible, to accommodate crypto and other blockchain assets. His expertise includes the use of purpose trusts and mixed trusts (which serve both purposes and beneficiaries). Additionally, he provides advice on holding cryptoassets through various entities such as foundations, foundation companies and standalone companies. He offers guidance on structures and entities across multiple jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Guernsey. These structures invest in a wide range of cryptoassets, including cryptoasset funds, high-profile NFTs and even cryptoasset infrastructure, such as crypto exchanges.

Alex Wickens

Alex Wickens is a group partner* in the Guernsey Banking & Finance team specialising in real estate finance, fund finance and acquisition finance. Alex has over 12 years' experience advising lenders and borrowers on all aspects of Guernsey banking & finance law from lending, to non-contentious restructuring and security enforcement. He advises on financings to complex real estate holding structures, including property unit trust structures and structures established to be shariah law compliant. Alex advises sponsors, private credit and traditional lenders on a range of acquisition finance transactions, but predominantly in respect of mid-market acquisitions of infrastructure and financial services targets acquired through Guernsey acquisition stacks. He also advises on all aspects of fund finance, including subscription line, net asset value and hybrid facilities. *not admitted in Guernsey and not a member of Walkers (Guernsey) LLP