Paula Fry

Advocate Paula Fry, Counsel, is an established and dual-qualified lawyer of 23 years’ call, (also TEP qualified) of which thirteen years have been spent in Guernsey building a wide-ranging private client and trust practice. Her work covers both non-contentious and contentious trust and private client practice as well as corporate and finance work.

She has a wealth of experience and has, in particular, been involved in numerous re-structuring exercises, a number of momentous decision applications (including applications relating to a deferred prosecution agreement and critical trustee decisions), various mistake applications, trustee and protector removal applications, various applications and advice in relation to the defective appointment of trustees, a significant court application concerning the construction of a will and a novel court application in relation to the rectification of companies’ share registers.

Paula is well acquainted with a very broad spectrum of trust and estate related matters, including the establishment of trusts, foundations, private trust companies, the preparation of wills and the administration of estates. She also advises trustees, protectors, beneficiaries, enforcers and private banks on all aspects of trusts.

Additionally, Paula has built up a practice which goes beyond the remit of traditional private client work, having dealt with substantial corporate transactions and numerous financing arrangements involving trustees.

Paula qualified as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey in January 2021.

Prior to joining Appleby in 2017, she had worked for a major law firm in Guernsey since 2011.

Paula has also been recognised in the highly respected ALM and Law.com Private Client Global Elite 2024 Directory in the 'Excellence' category.