Trusts - Jersey
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What the Team is Known For
Carey Olsen specialises in trust matters in Jersey. It has a strong team for contentious and non-contentious Jersey trust structuring and is well regarded in the jurisdiction.

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Carey Olsen has one of the largest trusts and private wealth teams in the offshore world with 50 partners and associates providing advice on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey to local and international clients and their advisers.
Our offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, with growing private wealth practices, also ensure that we are able to advise clients in Asia on both contentious and non-contentious trusts and private wealth matters.
We represent professional trustees, private individuals and families, banks, financial institutions and charities from all over the world. International law firms and accountancy practices look to us for support on projects that require specialist advice on the laws and regulations of our jurisdictions.
Our lawyers work across a range of structures including private, corporate, charitable, purpose and commercial trusts, foundations, 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.
With a fully integrated practice, we also represent trustees and beneficiaries in contentious matters and administrative applications that need to be made to the court.
Provided by Chambers
Carey Olsen specialises in trust matters in Jersey. It has a strong team for contentious and non-contentious Jersey trust structuring and is well regarded in the jurisdiction.
Provided by Chambers
Carey Olsen is very technically strong and has the resources to deal with client matters. It is an international law firm with great depth and breadth.
Carey Olsen is made up of high-calibre, client-facing professionals who maintain a strong commercial focus.
Carey Olsen has hard-working, knowledgeable attorneys with a great deal of experience in trust matters.
Carey Olsen has a breadth of experience across the private client and corporate world and is a go-to legal adviser.
Carey Olsen is one of my go-to firms for Jersey litigation.
Provided by Chambers
Alexa Saunders is a trusts lawyer in Jersey specialising in non-contentious matters. She is head of the trusts and private wealth team at Carey Olsen in Jersey and has a well-regarded practice.
Alexa Saunders provides amazing service.
Alexa Saunders has a level of charm and sophistication only surpassed by the quality of her advocacy.
Alexa Saunders is a superb lawyer. She is brilliant: user-friendly, hard-working and a real team player. She has great people skills. When she talks, everyone listens.
Alexa Saunders takes on exciting opportunities rather than run-of-the-mill work and shows expertise in light of these complex opportunities.
Keith Dixon is engaged in a range of trusts work including establishment and restructuring.
Keith Dixon is very good - knowledgeable, hard-working and interested in getting good results. He is engaged in understanding the whole picture.
Keith Dixon is very responsive and easy to deal with.
Robert Dobbyn is a go-to trust lawyer when available. He is sensible, pragmatic, clear and concise in providing legal frameworks for structuring.
Robert Dobbyn is particularly user-friendly with private clients.
Robert Dobbyn always makes us feel he has all the time we need. He is technically excellent and pragmatic in his approach.
Robert Dobbyn is exceptionally bright and extremely easy-going - the perfect combination for a lawyer.
Sarah Farrow is counsel at the firm and advises clients on a range of trusts and private wealth matters, including structuring and wealth planning.
Sarah Farrow provides an amazing service.
Carla Plater is a senior associate at Carey Olsen. She often handles high-value trust matters, including those that involve restructuring, cross-border tax disclosure and succession advice.
Carla Plater is a great lawyer who focuses on her clients with skill.
Carla Plater is honing her skills to be a force for the future. She is approachable and easy to work with.
Carla Plater is helpful, available, friendly and pragmatic.
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Andreas Kistler
Elizabeth Le Guillou
Huw Thomas
Stephen Fitzgerald
Julie Currie
Louise Woolrich
Keith Dixon
Sarah Farrow
Victoria Connolly
Tarina Le Boutillier
Carla Plater
Robert Dobbyn
Alexa Saunders
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