Victoria Yates

Private client, private wealth. trusts, corporate trust law, non contentious trusts

Victoria is a partner in the private client and trusts team in Jersey. She is a Jersey advocate 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.

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 joined Collas Crill in 2024.