Helen Cooper

-Bermuda Wills & Estates

- Family Office

- Private Client & Trust

- Trust Services

Helen E. Cooper is a Director and Co-Head of the Bermuda Private Client & Trust practice. Helen joined Conyers in 2001 and became partner in 2009.

Her practice covers all aspects of trust and private client law with specialist expertise in private trust company structures, trust reorganisations and international and local estate planning arrangements, as well as providing advice to private banks, charities, beneficiaries and protectors on a variety of trust related matters.

- Lincoln’s Inn London

- International Bar Association

- Bermuda Bar Association

- Establishing a Bermuda private trust company for a Monaco resident client involving complex family and corporate governance issues

- Advising on the complicated reorganisation of a Bermuda law trust structure to facilitate the sale of a substantial UK retail business for a high profile client, where confidentiality and privacy issues were paramount

- Advising on the complex reorganisation of a Bermuda law trust with South American beneficiaries which facilitated the sale of the trust’s interest in a large family business, leading to a successful application to the Bermuda Court approving the reorganisation

- Advising a trustee on the reorganisation of a large Bermuda law trust structure for a Russian family and working closely with a US legal team on the restructuring of investments across multiple jurisdictions

- Advising the Trustees on the reorganisation of a Bermuda law trust with Italian resident beneficiaries, which involved substantive cross-jurisdictional issues, including forced heirship and succession issues