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The below article, written by Collas Crill's Of Counsel in Jersey Sam Williams and first published on Lexis PSL, provides an update on the latest developments in the Z Trusts insolvency case...

In a series of 3 articles (Rounds 1 to 3), we explore Jersey's approach to the concept of transparency in respect of beneficial ownership information.

As the requirements (and subsequent disputes) of HNW individuals and families continue to increase in complexity, courts across our jurisdictions are frequently seeing cases that are establishing new...

A private trust company (PTC) is a private company established to serve as a trustee for a particular trust or a group of related trusts.

This is an area of the law dominated by rebuttable presumptions and there are few, if any, hard and fast rules.

The Court in this case was asked to bless a decision of the Trustees to exclude against her wishes one of the beneficiaries of two Jersey family trusts of which they were trustee.

A mistake or a failure to take into account relevant considerations? The Royal Court is asked to consider its jurisdiction to declare voidable the exercise of a power on both grounds.

The Foundations (Jersey) Law 2009 (the "Law") introduced a new type of entity, the foundation, into Jersey's legal landscape in 2009. This note is a brief summary of the Law.

The Foundations ( Jersey) Law 2009 (the "Law") introduced a new type of entity, the foundation, into Jersey’s legal landscape in 2009.

Much has been written in recent years regarding the somewhat vexed question of what happens when a trust becomes ‘insolvent'.

Last year, we reported on the important decision of the Royal Court of Jersey in April 2020 in Re Grundy [2020] JRC 071, which case our firm presented to the Royal Court and which demonstrated...

Many EU countries have missed the deadline for the establishment of beneficial ownership registers for companies and trusts.

"Family governance" is a term to describe a system of how a family together makes decisions in governing its wealth and enterprises. Often the family will have a board of directors...

Jersey is one of the world's leading jurisdictions in which to establish and manage private wealth through trusts.

A trust is a legal arrangement which distinguishes between the legal ownership and the beneficial ownership of property.

In a landmark decision of the Privy Council, Ashley Dawson-Damer v Grampian Trust Company Ltd [2025] UKPC 32 (Dawson-Damer), the Privy Council has grappled with a US$402m trust dispute in which a discretionary beneficiary sought to set aside appointments that transferred 98% of trust assets to new trusts from which she was excluded from benefit.

This recent judgment of the Royal Court of Jersey is a wake-up call to offshore fiduciaries and corporate service providers

Jersey has made no secret of the fact that it strives to be a leading jurisdiction for private wealth management and that it is open for family office business.