Walkers

Investment Funds & Corporate

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.

Chris spent six years working with another leading offshore law firm in Guernsey before joining Walkers' Guernsey office in January 2021.

Prior to that he spent a combined 12 years working in the London offices of two leading US law firms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP, and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, spending a year in the New York office of the latter.

Admitted in:

Guernsey England and Wales