Anthony Williams

Practice Areas

Anthony is Head of Dispute Resolution in Guernsey.

Anthony is an experienced trial and appellate advocate. He has significant experience in many areas of corporate litigation and dispute resolution. Anthony has a particular expertise in high value and complex commercial litigation, with particular focus on investment fund disputes, regulatory enforcement, contentious insolvency matters, asset-tracing and recovery work, and trust litigation. Anthony has also developed a market leading regulatory enforcement practice, which is highly regarded in the financial services industry and is considered as one of the “go to” firms in relation to regulatory enforcement actions.

In 2022 Anthony Williams was involved in a number of the leading cases on the island. Anthony is appearing as lead Advocate for a number of Defendants in a high profile and high value litigation, which is considered to be the biggest commercial case on the Island at present, worth circa USD1billion. This matter involves inter alia serious claims of fraudulent and insolvent trading, breaches of directors’ duties and false accounting. Moreover, Anthony appeared as trial Advocate in the Royal Court on behalf of a number of fiduciary directors defending them against onerous sanctions imposed by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission including substantial financial penalties and lengthy prohibition orders.

Previous to 2022 Anthony has appeared as the Court Advocate on several leading high profile cases including the Tchenguiz related litigation and the Rusnano disputes, including a two week trial and two successful appeals to the Court of Appeal.

Anthony has also been the Advocate in the leading financial crime cases in Guernsey, including the seminal RBC v Liang litigation. He regularly presents at seminars and conferences on issues concerning financial crime / AML issues and is considered a Guernsey law expert on these issues.

Career

Anthony qualified as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey in 2012.

Professional Memberships

Anthony is a prominent member of the local Bar having sat on the Guernsey Bar Council for the past 6 years as Treasurer and a Council member. In this role Anthony is responsible, alongside fellow council members, in considering issues impacting the future of the Guernsey Bar and the legal community on the island.

Anthony is also a member of a Royal Court Committee comprising senior Advocates and Judges considering reforms to the civil procedure rules in Guernsey, which will impact on the manner in which commercial litigation is conducted on the Island.

Finally Anthony is a member of R3, INSOL International, the Insolvency Practitioners Association, and the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts.