Collas Crill

Group Managing Partner: Jason Romer

Senior Partner: Jason Green

Managing Partners: Gareth Bell (Guernsey), Pamela Doherty (Jersey), Stephen Leontsinis (Cayman), Ellie Crespi (BVI)

Number of partners: 41

Number of other fee-earners: 63

International Offices: BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Jersey

Firm Overview

Collas Crill is an offshore law firm with offices in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Jersey and London.

The firm delivers a comprehensive range of legal services to clients locally and globally in four broad practice areas: Financial Services and Regulatory; Insolvency and Corporate Disputes; Private Client and Trusts; and Real Estate.

Clients include some of the world’s leading financial institutions, international businesses, trusts and funds, as well as high-net-worth individuals and families across the globe. The firm continues to build a network of independent and trusted partners around the world including the Caribbean, the Channel Islands, the UK, Europe, the US, the Middle East, South Africa and Asia.

Main Areas of Practice

Private Client and Trusts - Global Head, Christian Hay 

Collas Crill's full-service team offers wealth structuring, advisory and disputes expertise to trustees and high-net-worth individuals, and a range of services to clients within its local jurisdictions, working seamlessly across time zones. This strong global presence and its partner-led approach means that clients can benefit from the firm's leading expertise and experience around the world.

For wealthy individuals, family businesses and entrepreneurs managing wealth across generations, succession planning and transferring control of assets has never been more challenging. Collas Crill has many years of collective experience in providing trusts, foundations and other fiduciary services using Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey law - jurisdictions which are collectively recognised as leaders in the provision of offshore fiduciary services. The firms also has significant experience in specialist products and services, including pensions and Shariah, with many of the team having worked in the world of wealth management in other prominent offshore and onshore jurisdictions.

The team's experts in family law, wills, probate and estate planning offer discreet, practical advice to reach the best possible outcomes for its clients, many of whom have worked with Collas Crill for a number of years.

The team represents trust corporations, individual trustees and beneficiaries and has conduct of many of the leading cases in this area, dealing with novel points of law and creating new and innovative solutions.

Insolvency and Corporate Disputes - Global Head, Stephen Leontsinis

Collas Crill’s multi-jurisdictional Insolvency and Corporate Disputes team brings a wealth of experience from a range of diverse backgrounds to give quick, accurate, commercial advice across dispute resolution, restructuring, recovery and insolvency matters to clients across the globe.

The firm frequently advises top law firms from the UK, the US, China and other jurisdictions, and is working on some of the largest and most complex cross-border insolvencies in progress today. Collas Crill is regularly briefed by Sovereign Wealth Funds and Fortune 500 Companies to advise on particular restructurings, as well as investment managers from Europe and the US.

Financial Services and Regulatory - Global Head, Mick Adkins 

Collas Crill's global Financial Services and Regulatory team specialises in banking, capital markets, corporate advisory, corporate reorganisations, funds and regulatory.

With a depth of multi-jurisdictional experience and offices in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and London, the team ensures that advice is provided in the context of other key offshore centres and with a knowledge of the bigger global picture.

Its clients appreciate the firm's proactive attitude, sensible and user-friendly advice, accuracy and honesty in pricing matters, and senior-level involvement in all matters.

Real Estate - Global Head, Jason Green 

Collas Crill's full-service Real Estate teams - based in the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey - are recognised by clients for their responsive, friendly and commercially aware approach.

The teams offer services in commercial property including real estate financing, planning and property disputes, relocation services and residential property and planning services.

The partners take a hands-on approach, working in close collaboration with clients, their advisers and other legal professionals to ensure every deal and transaction is managed to successful completion.

Regardless of the prevailing economic and market conditions, Collas Crill's goal is to minimise the risks and drive maximum value for its clients in every property transaction. The firm's property specialists have the local knowledge and expertise to provide top quality advice on all commercial and residential transactions, as well as give meaningful opinions and anticipate challenges and opportunities, at every stage of the process.