Carey Olsen’s trusts and private client team is highly regarded for advising a wide range of clients, including UHNW and HNW individuals, family offices, professional trustees, protectors, and major financial institutions. The group has deep expertise across all aspects of trusts and estate law, covering both contentious and non-contentious work. Practice head Bernadette Carey is a leading figure in the jurisdiction, frequently instructed on high-value, cross-border trust litigation, restructuring exercises, and complex estate matters. Graham Stoute complements the team with his focus on non-contentious issues, including trust structuring, estate administration, and probate advisory work.
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'We do a good amount of work with the private client team in Cayman, who we find excellent to deal with. They are calm, knowledgeable, and thorough and seem to have a good global outlook and enjoy good working relationships with their client families.’
‘Bernadette Carey is organised and across everything. She is a really brilliant operator in that she is able to understand and explain the technical and strategic aspects in a very relaxed, reassuring manner. She seems very in control. She is well supported by Katie Turney, who has been great to work with.’
'Bernadette Carey is an outstanding Cayman Islands-based private client services lawyer. She is a go-to for private client work in the Cayman Islands and can handle highly complex matters with relative ease.'
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Practice head
Bernadette Carey
Other key lawyers
Graham Stoute; Katie Turney