Carey Olsen has one of the largest offshore trusts and private wealth legal practices covering Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. Our offices in Hong Kong and Singapore also ensure we can advise on both contentious and non-contentious matters in the Asian time zone. We work across a range of structures including private, corporate, charitable, purpose and commercial trusts, foundations, family offices, partnerships and companies. We advise on settlor reserved power trusts, private trust company arrangements, pension and employee benefit schemes, wills and matters of inheritance, international estate planning, regulatory advice and trust-related disputes. Our contentious trust team have appeared in many significant offshore trust cases to come before the courts, including representing clients before the Privy Council in the UK.
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Ogier provides legal advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, 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.
Serle Court is a leading, award-winning set of barristers' chambers, renowned for its expertise across a broad range of chancery and commercial disciplines. Described as "a really top set home to some of the best people in the industry" by Chambers & Partners, we are known for handling complex, high-value matters for private and professional clients, both nationally and internationally.
Our barristers cover all aspects of business law, from offshore litigation involving global corporations to domestic advisory work in probate. We are widely recognised as "the market leader for offshore trust litigation" and praised as “a quality set that rightly deserves its first-class reputation" (Legal 500).
As one of the top sets at the UK Bar, we are recommended in 25 practice areas by Chambers UK and 22 by The Legal 500. With 84 barristers, including 28 silks, we offer tailored teams for each case. Under the leadership of Head of Chambers Elizabeth Jones KC, our commitment to excellence earned us nominations in 10 categories at the Legal 500 Bar Awards and 5 at the Chambers UK Bar Awards in 2024.
We are a strategic communications firm that specialises in campaigns around litigation and disputes. We help our clients win their disputes and to protect their reputations. We have worked in over 30 jurisdictions for a range of clients including UHNWIs, ruling families, hedge funds, and private businesses.
Our team is made up of former barristers, intelligence experts and communications specialists, enabling us to devise communications strategies that achieve clients’ goals and meet discreet objectives. We work closely with legal teams on a wide variety of disputes and litigation and align our strategies fully with the legal action.