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Dispute Resolution

Jersey

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Provided by Nick Williams

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Practice Areas

Banking Disputes, Channel Islands Local Legal Services, Corporate and Financial Services Disputes, Crypto Disputes, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement of Judgments and Awards, Family Office, Fraud and Asset Tracing, Funds Disputes, International Arbitration, Investigations and Regulatory Advice, Regulatory, Restructuring and Insolvency, Shareholder and Valuation Disputes, Trusts Advisory Group, Trusts Disputes

Career

Nick is a partner and Head of Ogier's Jersey Dispute Resolution team, specialising in contentious restructuring, contentious trusts matters and cross-border commercial litigation. He is also a key member of the firm's global Regulatory Group.

Nick specialises in complex and cross-jurisdictional commercial litigation. He is an experienced and persuasive Advocate, regularly appearing in the Royal Court. Clients praise Nick for his strategic sense and his sound, solutions-based advice.

Nick acts for many of the leading trust companies in the Island, assisting them in the full range of contentious trustee, company and regulatory issues that they may face. He also specialises in shareholder litigation and claims of unfair prejudice and breaches of contract and fiduciary duty. He has extensive experience in insolvency and regulatory matters.

Nick joined Ogier in 2007, having previously practised in England with Clifford Chance. He was admitted as a Jersey Advocate in 2010, and became a Partner in 2013.

His practice includes:

- Contentious and semi-contentious trust work: Nick advises on a range of trust and fiduciary matters including in relation to trustee duties and powers, rights of beneficiaries, breaches of trust, validity of trust instruments and mistake/Hastings Bass applications.

- Contentious regulatory and enforcement matters: Nick advises financial services clients on the scope of their regulatory duties, as well as on related questions of civil and criminal liability.

- Contentious restructuring and corporate recovery: Nick has successfully acted for applicants in a range of contentious insolvency matters.

- Corporate and fund litigation: Nick advises on a broad range of corporate issues including directors’ duties and shareholder rights. In particular, Nick has acted both for and against companies in minority shareholder actions (both statutory unfair prejudice and common law derivative actions). Nick has also acted in connection with a number of non-contentious company applications.

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Nick Williams serves as head of Ogier's Jersey disputes team. He operates a broad practice where he advises on both trust and general commercial litigation matters.

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