Todd McGuffin

As the Head of the Disputes & Risk team, Advocate McGuffin specialises in contentious funds, trust and cross-border insolvency matters. He has extensive experience in areas such as fraud, constructive trusts and tracing, trustees’ and directors’ duties, financial services regulatory investigations, with most having multi-jurisdictional element. He frequently advises stakeholders and local and foreign insolvency practitioners in corporate distress situations and is regularly instructed by foreign lawyers to provide commercial cross-border advice. He has also provided expert evidence on Guernsey law to the courts in the United States and Australia.

Advocate McGuffin has been at Babbé since 2008 and has practised as a Guernsey Advocate since 2013. He was appointed a Partner in 2016 and Head of the Disputes & Risk team in 2022. Initially qualifying in 2002 whilst at a boutique Sydney firm, later he worked in London at a number of City powerhouses qualifying in England in 2007. He is also qualified in the Republic of Ireland.

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Legal and Regulatory Committee, Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (Channel Islands)

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Guernsey Financial Services Commission/ Guernsey Bar Forum

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