Victoria Yates
Global Guide 2024
Band 2 : Trusts
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About
Provided by Victoria Yates
Practice Areas
Victoria is a Jersey advocate and Partner with more than 20 years' offshore legal experience specialising in corporate and non-contentious trust law.
Victoria has significant expertise advising on the establishment, administration, financing, disposal and termination of a wide range of Jersey trust and corporate structures. She has particular expertise in commercial trusts and real estate investment vehicles, including JPUTs, having acted for several sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity firms on their indirect investment in UK commercial real estate utilising Jersey entities.
She also advises major trust company clients and family offices on the establishment and administration of complex structures for high net worth individuals looking to create comprehensive estate plans, including family unit trusts and limited partnerships.
Career
Victoria begun her legal career with Crill Canavan in 1998 and qualified as a Jersey lawyer with the firm in 2001. She then joined Ogier where she became a partner in 2013 before establishing her own law firm in 2014.
She graduated from Exeter University in 1998 with a first class degree in Law, qualified as a Jersey solicitor in 2001 and was sworn in as an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey in 2005.
Victoria was a Committee member of the Jersey Association of Trust Companies for a number of years and is a full member of STEP.
Chambers Review
Global
Victoria Yates specialises in corporate trust matters. She has considerable experience in the establishment and administration of trusts.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Victoria is very good, with a steady reputation and high quality of work."
"Victoria has a good market following in Jersey."
"Victoria is very good, with a steady reputation and high quality of work."
"Victoria has a good market following in Jersey."
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