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Guiding clients through complex, cross-border trust and family disputes with clarity, sensitivity, and a focus on long-term solutions.
Disputes involving trusts, estates or family wealth can be deeply personal and highly complex, often involving significant assets held in multiple jurisdictions. Clients facing these challenges need more than just legal advice, they need clear guidance, sensitivity, and a robust strategy that protects both their financial interests and their relationships.
We support individuals, beneficiaries, trustees, protectors, and professional advisers through complex trust and family disputes, often involving substantial cross-border estates and offshore structures. Our focus is on resolving disagreements, whether between family members, trustees, or third parties, in a way that safeguards assets, preserves reputation, and supports long-term relationships wherever possible.
Recognised for our experience in the most challenging, high-value and multi-jurisdictional trust and family disputes, we bring in-depth knowledge of key trust jurisdictions including England, the Channel Islands, the Caribbean, Switzerland, Asia, and the Middle East. By combining technical expertise with a personal approach, we deliver tailored, long-term solutions that address both legal and emotional priorities.
Clients value our ability to navigate sensitive disputes with discretion, resolve issues efficiently, and protect what matters most - now and for the future.
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Stephenson Harwood provides global expertise to ultra-high net worth families and business owners in complex trust disputes. Clients may also benefit from the firm's highly rated non-contentious private wealth practice.
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The Stephenson Harwood team live and breathe their work. They're very impressive and hard-working. It's an excellent team.
Stephenson Harwood's private client department is booming: they go from strength to strength in terms of the work they get and the people they are hiring. They deal with complex, large-scale litigation.
They are very good and have high standards. They have a great team.
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Emma Jordan is a dual-qualified English barrister and Jersey advocate, and is well placed to handle significant offshore litigation. Jordan, who was previously head of contentious trusts at another international firm, joined Stephenson Harwood in February 2026.
Emma Jordan is responsive and thorough.
Emma Jordan has got an amazing reputation in Jersey, and she has an amazing practice. She's at the top of her game.
Jenny McKeown often advises clients on significant international trusts disputes. McKeown is head of Stephenson Harwood's employment, pensions, immigration, private wealth and tax practice group.
Jenny McKeown just has an answer for everything. She has great bedside manner, is really methodical, really knowledgeable, super responsive and super engaged.
Jenny is just brilliant. She manages a number of complex, high-value matters with ease.
Jenny McKeown is a consummate professional; she has amazing judgement, knows when to make hard decisions and has her clients interests at heart all the time. She goes the extra mile for them.
Helena Berman is a brilliant litigator – extremely tenacious and hard-working, she won't give up until the best outcome for clients has been achieved. She thinks carefully about her cases.
Peter Gillis regularly handles significant international trust litigation proceedings. He was promoted to partner at Stephenson Harwood in 2025.
Peter is really clever; a really bright guy.
Peter Gillis is very hard-working and analytical, but also personable.
Peter is brilliant. He is meticulous in terms of attention to detail.
Kate Silbermann is a managing associate specialising in contentious trusts and estates matters. She has assisted with various offshore trust disputes and brings expertise in fraud and asset tracing matters to her private wealth litigation work.
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