Walkers

Dispute Resolution, Insolvency & Restructuring

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.

Prior to joining Walkers, Helena worked for six years in a top tier dispute resolution department of another offshore firm in Guernsey.

She spent just over a year working as a litigator in the UAE and has experience in both in private practice and in an in-house role – she has been admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales since 2008.

English

Law Society of England and Wales Guernsey International Legal Association Association of Reconstruction and Insolvency Experts INSOL International

Admitted in:

England and Wales (not practising) Guernsey

Education:

LPC, BPP Law School, London, UK PgDL, BPP Law School, London, UK BA (Hons) English, University of Liverpool, UK