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Trusts are intended to endure, often across generations. However, circumstances change: family dynamics evolve, assets are sold, restructured or decrease in value, beneficiary needs shift, tax regimes change.

It is rare that directors foreshadow claims against them, and often claims arise with little if any warning, from what directors may consider to have been historic transactional decision-making.

Granted, the Marks & Spencer reference may have worked slightly better prior to their recent cyber difficulties but, when is a trustee not just a trustee? When it's a private trust company (PTC)...

Guernsey has published regulations to implement and enable the administration and enforcement of the intergovernmental agreements entered into with the UK and the U.S.

Sinéad Leddy, Technical Director at Guernsey Finance, examines how the current European landscape is affecting the funds sector in the island.

Dominic Wheatley, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, delves into some of the latest developments to be launched on the island.

With Guernsey’s new Foundations law coming into effect back in January 2013, Guernsey now has the full ‘toolkit’ of fiduciary structures for wealth planning needs.

Guernsey law provides for the establishment and regulation of private trust companies (PTCs). In September 2025, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission...

The purpose of this briefing note is to set out some of the benefits of Guernsey purpose trusts, whether hybrid or non-charitable

Family practitioners are well-versed in avoiding potential pitfalls of implementing and enforcing settlements agreed in the family courts

In this note, we will focus on some of the key legal and practical considerations that a retiring trustee should take into account before it transfers information on the trust...

The last surviving Settlor died in July 2015 and there was an unfortunate family dispute between R1 and the other beneficiaries.

Although the UK government is gradually outlining its plan of action, what the Brexit process and outcome will actually look like is uncertain.

The Hong Kong office to be located at Three Pacific Place in Admiralty is Guernsey Finance's second overseas outpost, in addition to our Shanghai office which opened in 2008

With capital so portable in today's world, investment dollars continually seek to find homes where it makes most economic sense acknowledge market experts.

The entrepreneurial spirit has much to do with the successful evolution of the trust sector in Guernsey which has developed beyond all recognition from its embryonic state in the late 1960s.

Guernsey has a lot to offer high net worth individuals and their families, but what needs to be done to help them prepare for the move?