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Our skilled corporate and commercial team is known for their commercial acumen and problem-solving skills, advising on all aspects of corporate transactions. This includes corporate restructurings, sales and acquisitions, business reorganisations, private equity transactions, joint venture arrangements, financial recapitalisation, and all aspects of company law process, including statutory mergers, liquidations, and migrations to and from other jurisdictions.

The team has extensive experience in a variety of domestic and cross-border investment structures as well as schemes with a sustainability and impact objective.

Key Contacts

Leanne Wallser, Head of Investment Funds and Corporate

Ruth Hatt, Head of Investment Funds, Corporate and Regulatory – Cayman Islands

Our banking and finance team advises on all aspects of banking, structured and fund finance. We act for lenders, borrowers, arrangers, sponsors, fund managers, and private equity houses on transactions ranging from intra-group financing arrangements to multinational financings and refinancings.

Key Contacts

Fiona Dalton, Head of Banking and Finance

Sam Sturrock, Advocate – Funds / Corporate / Regulatory

Our widely recognised Insolvency and Restructuring team provides dedicated advice on all aspects of insolvency, restructuring, and corporate recovery. We advise on complex cross-border restructurings, refinancings, conflicts of law, contentious and non-contentious insolvencies and financial issues, corporate winding up/liquidations, distressed situations, enforcement proceedings, fraud and asset tracing, distressed collective investment structures, regulatory investigations, employment disputes, schemes of arrangement, enforcement of security and illiquid or insolvent trust litigation.

We advise both international and domestic clients, including financial institutions, trust companies, banks, investment funds, multinational corporations, and private individuals. We also often work in partnership with international law firms for cases with cross-border aspects.

Key Contacts

Jeremy Garrood, Head of Insolvency and Dispute Resolution

Mark Groben, Senior Counsel

We have extensive experience in fund formation and advisory work. We advise fund managers, financial institutions, sponsors, advisors, and intermediary law firms on the full spectrum of fund structures and strategies throughout the investment fund life cycle. We will support your journey from inception, structuring and formation, capital raising and subsequent closings, financings, and downstream transactions, through to end-of-life restructuring options and wind down.

We also assist clients with all aspects of fund regulatory advice, including the establishment of new fund managers and investment advisory businesses in Jersey, as well as assisting with personnel relocations.

We have extensive experience in the fields of private equity, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure, technology, and impact funds, and work closely with our private client, corporate, employment, and dispute resolution teams to offer a comprehensive legal service.

Key Contacts

Leanne Wallser, Head of Investment Funds and Corporate

Sam Sturrock, Advocate – Funds / Corporate / Regulatory

Our highly regarded litigators represent clients across the full spectrum of contentious and semi-contentious matters, having considerable experience in some of Jersey’s most high-profile disputes. Our specialist lawyers assist clients through corporate disputes, commercial litigation, banking and finance litigations, trust disputes, employment, pensions and incentive issues, and all aspects of restructuring and insolvency disputes, as well as insurance, fraud, and asset tracing.

Our experience includes cases of negligence, representation in regulatory breach and defence matters, investor and shareholder disputes, joint venture and M&A disputes, mis-selling, distressed situations, service disputes, and claims of breach of duty.

Key Contacts

Jeremy Garrood, Head of Insolvency and Dispute Resolution

Mark Groben, Senior Counsel

Our in-house notary provides notarial services to corporate and private clients in Jersey, including authenticating and certifying governing documents, statutory records, signatures and capacity of officers, contents of certificates of incumbency, and witnessing documents, such as powers of attorney, oaths, and affidavits. We can assist with the legalisation of documents in Jersey and in arranging legalisation overseas in certain circumstances.

Key Contacts

David Dorgan, Head of Private Client and International Trusts

The team advises on the establishment, administration, restructuring, and termination of fidéicommis, l’incorporation d’associations, trusts, and foundations structures used by domestic and international clients for charitable and/or philanthropic intentions and pension schemes established under the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961 as amended. We also advise on employer benefit trusts, including share ownership or option plans, employee incentive schemes, customer reward schemes, and debt restructuring.

Key Contacts

David Dorgan, Head of Private Client and International Trusts

Mark Groben, Senior Counsel

Our renowned private client team advises trustees, fiduciaries, individuals, family offices, and other advisers on all aspects of trusts and foundations law including the establishment, administration, restructuring, and termination of private, charitable, wills, and commercial trust and foundation structures.

Additionally, we offer a seamless contentious and non-contentious trust advisory service. Our trust dispute lawyers can guide clients through various trust disputes offering pragmatic solutions to complex litigious and potentially litigious issues arising in the course of the administration of trusts and foundations.

Key Contacts

David Dorgan, Head of Private Client and International Trusts

Fiona Dalton, Head of Banking and Finance

As the global regulatory landscape continues to develop and evolve, it is important to have a trusted regulatory advisor who understands the business you operate in. Jersey has always prided itself on being an early adopter of global standards when it comes to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism legislation, and its AML/CFT framework is designed to reflect the Island’s position as a leading international financial centre.

Our team of regulatory experts, combined with our senior regulatory consultants, are well-versed in advising a range of leading offshore fiduciary firms and banks on all aspects of regulatory advice and are specialists in regulatory investigations.

Key Contacts

Sam Sturrock, Advocate – Funds / Corporate / Regulatory

Ruth Hatt, Head of Investment Funds, Corporate and Regulatory – Cayman Islands