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Private Wealth: Trusts - UK
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC boasts a strong reputation for handling matters including trusts and probate, commercial litigation and professional negligence cases. She is experienced in contentious trusts litigation between beneficiaries and trustees, international trusts litigation and trust arbitration.
Strengths
Clare is technically brilliant and able to see her way through a myriad of issues very easily. A pleasure to work with, she is unflappable and exceptional when before the court.
A barrister with a phenomenal brain, she really thinks things through and explains things to clients in a way that they can understand.
Clare is a very prepared and forceful advocate who is fun, hardworking and incredibly bright. What sets her apart is how calm she stays throughout.
Clare has got a great reputation, is robust in her views and is willing to take a position. She doesn't sit on the fence and that comes from experience.
Clare is great to work with and is a silk at the top of her game. She's highly technically skilled and a great advocate.
Offshore (Bar) - UK
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC is noted for her commercial and company law practice, encompassing the likes of insolvency and fraud matters. She has further expertise in handling trust dispute cases. She is well versed in the intricacies of acting in a number of offshore jurisdictions, frequently the Cayman Islands.
Strengths
Clare is technically brilliant. She is able to see her way through a myriad of issues very easily.
Clare is extremely engaging and ready to cut to the essence of what's important in client calls.
She knows the offshore market inside out, knows the judges and is a ferocious cross-examiner.
Clare is very good at taking a strategic approach to her advocacy.
Dispute Resolution: Commercial Chancery - UK
Strengths
Clare is an amazing advocate; judges love her. I go to her when I want to instruct a silk that knows Cayman law backwards and is known to the judges.
Clare is able to package up complex ideas and present them in a way that is easily understandable for both lawyers and lay clients.
Clare is very thorough and clients really like her.
Clare knows the offshore market inside out and is a ferocious cross-examiner. She has a wonderful breadth of experience.
Restructuring/Insolvency - UK
Individual Editorial
Clare Stanley KC is noted for her broad expertise covering trusts, company, fraud and insolvency. Stanley is often instructed on high-value, offshore insolvency matters across the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, with a particular focus on proceedings involving complex offshore structures and asset tracing.
Strengths
A ferocious cross-examiner with a wonderful overlap of experience.
She is extremely engaging and is ready to cut to the essence of what's important in client calls.