Ogier provides legal advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law. Our network of locations also includes Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.
Ogier's Trusts Advisory Group draws together experts from different disciplines and locations to provide a seamless contentious and non-contentious advisory service which also includes relevant corporate support.
Our Private Wealth team advises trustees, private banks and ultra-high net worth clients on the lifecycle of trusts from establishment, restructuring and administration to succession planning. We have in-depth knowledge of trusts and foundations, enabling us to provide flexible and practical guidance on choosing the most effective jurisdiction. The team combines with our corporate specialists to provide commercially focused corporate advice regarding companies that underlie trust structures or on new investments structures as they arise.
The Trusts Advisory Group draws together contentious and non-contentious trust practitioners. Our Dispute Resolution specialists have a particularly strong track record, having acted successfully in many of the headline international trust and private client matters in recent years in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey.
Carey Olsen is a leading offshore law firm advising on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law. We have one of the largest and experienced offshore trust litigation teams spanning our jurisdictions.
Our track record includes advising on the most significant cases to be heard by the local courts as well as representing clients before the Privy Council. Many of these trust cases have established judicial precedents that are referred to in jurisdictions around the world.
We advise corporate and individual trustees, settlors, beneficiaries, protectors and other fiduciaries on all areas of trust work that are or have the potential to become contentious. We also work with onshore advisers in the context of international trust disputes involving our offshore jurisdictions.
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Conyers’ Private Client and Trust team, one of the largest in the Caribbean region, has a long-established reputation for providing intelligent, dependable advice to some of the world’s wealthiest private clients.
The Conyers Private Client and Trust team is complemented by a team of experienced trust litigators with a worldwide reputation. The trust litigation team is at the forefront of both contentious and non-contentious trust litigation in Bermuda. They regularly act for act for trustees, beneficiaries, settlors and third parties.
Conyers is a leading international law firm with a broad client base including FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies, international finance houses and asset managers. The firm advises on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands laws, from offices in those jurisdictions and in the key financial centres of Hong Kong, London and Singapore.
Grant Thornton has over 700 offices in 140 countries with 50,000 plus people and for the year ended 2020 had revenue of US$5.76billion. Grant Thornton has the largest dedicated contentious insolvency team in the field which is focused on asset recovery, and which has pioneered the use of insolvency powers, along with other civil legislation, as a tool to trace and recover assets on an international basis, having recovered circa US$3billion of hidden and misappropriated assets over the last 8 years for creditors worldwide.
The Contentious estates and family disputes team sits within Grant Thorntons Insolvency and asset recovery practice. Hannah Davie leads the Contentious Estates and Family disputes team and works with her team to advise people who have suffered financial loss, or have a claim against another party, such as following a divorce, along with beneficiaries, trustees and representatives in family, trust and probate disputes, along with using the Insolvency Act along with other civil legislation to safeguard and recover assets in a variety of different situations and jurisdictions.
Summit Trust International is an independent trust services group, founded in 1999 as Close Trustees (Switzerland) SA and headquartered in Geneva. Summit Trust International also has offices in London and the Cayman Islands. The group philosophy is to provide robust, un-conflicted trust and company management on a multi-jurisdictional basis. Summit Trust International brings a combination of financial and management stability which enables it to provide continuity in personal relationships and the orderly passing of family wealth for high net worth individuals who require offshore trust and company management services. Summit Trust is characterized by specialization, professionalism and integrity. Because Summit Trust is committed to an independent trust administration policy, it is free to work with your existing financial advisers, lawyers, bankers and asset managers, or introduce you to suitable advisers if you do not yet have your preferred team. The bottom line? Expect to find familiar faces at Summit Trust International but not familiar solutions. Our people are under no pressure to sell you any particular product, just to provide you with the right service for your needs. We are not expecting to be the biggest offshore services provider, but we are striving to be the best.
Interpath Advisory is a conflict-free and independent Insolvency, Forensics and Valuations advisory practice with offices across the UK, Ireland, the BVI and Cayman Islands.
Kristina Kicks and Michael Leeds lead our Contentious Insolvency and Asset Recovery practice and with their Private Wealth Disputes team, bring significant experience and expertise to the full range of contentious situations. Working alongside external lawyers, barristers and other advisors they bring a senior-led and innovative approach to each matter.
Our current portfolio includes (1) acting as Receivers to trace $400million dissipated from a Trust, (2) enforcing matrimonial settlement awards worth £15million+ and (3) securing the key asset in a family trust, acting as Liquidators of a holding company with significant assets to maximise asset recoveries.
Serle Court offers genuine expertise across a broad range of chancery and commercial disciplines – covering the whole range of ‘business’ law, from offshore litigation about the world’s largest companies to domestic advice on probate matters, for both private and professional clients at home and abroad. One of our core practice areas is trusts and we are applauded for being “the leading chambers for the big offshore trusts disputes,” and for having “a varied spectrum of skilled practitioners.’”. Serle Court was named ‘Set of the Year’ at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2022.
