Department profile
Walkers

FinTech Legal

FinTech Guide 2026 : Guernsey


Walkers

About

Provided by Walkers

We are actively engaged in advising fintech clients: both new entrants and global leaders – on a wide array of complex, high-value, and multi-jurisdictional matters. Our team is uniquely positioned at the intersection of financial services law and digital innovation, and we are increasingly recognised as a market leader in Guernsey for advising digital asset businesses, both from offshore and on-island.

Our expertise spans the full spectrum of fintech legal and regulatory needs, including corporate structuring, seed financing, licensing applications, ongoing regulatory compliance (including AML/ CTF, data privacy and cybersecurity), establishing a Guernsey presence, employment law, user terms and agreements, security and loan documentation, disputes and insolvency.

Our firm works with the world’s largest financial institutions: banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, trading platforms, insurers, payment services providers and fintech companies – supporting them across both traditional financial services and emerging fintech mandates.

We are proud to be the leading firm in Guernsey at the intersection of crypto assets and trust law: a cutting-edge and increasingly significant area of practice where we are uniquely positioned to advise. Our unmatched expertise in this niche field has positioned us as the go-to counsel for structuring and holding digital assets within fiduciary and trust arrangements.

Industries (8)

  • Financial Institutions
  • Banks
  • Asset Managers
  • Broker-dealers
  • Trading platforms
  • Insurers
  • Payment services providers
  • Fintech companies

Chambers Review

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FinTech Legal - Guernsey

Band 1

Band 1


What the Team is Known For

Walkers has an established FinTech presence in Guernsey, assisting on matters including regulatory compliance as well as insolvency proceedings for a number of clients. The firm assists both internationally leading firms as well as startups.

Notable practitioners

Chris Hutley-Hurst is a key contact at Walkers.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Walkers has expertise on really niche areas. It is very impressive.

    FinTech Legal respondentFinTech
  • It has great responsiveness, the fee structures are great and Walkers is really nice to work with.

    FinTech Legal respondentFinTech

Members

Provided by Walkers

  • Chris Hutley-Hurst

  • Matt Sanders

  • David Cooney

  • Rupert Morris

  • Craig Cordle

  • Jamie Bookless

  • Charlotte Goncalves

  • Marcel Treurnicht

  • Annaliese McGeoch

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