Nelsons Legal

Managing Partner and Head of Corporate: Steven Barrie
Head of Litigation: Colm Flanagan
Number of partners: 6
Number of other lawyers: 8

Firm Overview:
Nelsons is a well-established legal firm located in Grand Cayman, widely regarded for its high level of service and expertise within its practice areas.

The firm's guiding ethic is consistently to provide an efficient, personal and highly responsive service combined with a pragmatic approach to the law.

The team's extensive experience of doing business in the Cayman Islands, coupled with its noted expertise, make the firm ideally placed to provide a wide range of high-quality legal services.

Nelsons' clients include several financial institutions that are household names, as well as smaller companies, firms and private clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate and Commercial:
Nelsons provides a full service including asset finance and banking, funds and investment services, insurance, capital markets, securitisations and structured finance and, through our associated corporate management company, Trafalgar CS, a wide-ranging company administration service including the formation, management and maintenance of companies and limited partnerships,

Litigation and Insolvency:
Nelsons has a well-established and highly regarded Litigation, Insolvency and Dispute Resolution department, with a foremost reputation for high-quality service and results. The firm's litigation attorneys are committed to providing practical and cost-effective solutions, and to deliver a personal and approachable service. The firm is regularly instructed in some of the most high profile, complex and high value cases to come before the Grand Court.

Practice areas include financial services disputes, contentious trusts and estates, professional negligence, corporate and shareholder disputes, claims involving breach of directors' duties, commercial litigation, cross-border insolvency, fraud and asset tracing, insurance and financial crime. The firm also has a growing reputation in public law, having acted on a number of significant judicial review proceedings

Private Client and Trusts:
Nelsons has a highly experienced trust team which advises exclusively on Cayman Islands trusts. The team is led by Steven Barrie, who has over 24 years of experience in advising high net worth individuals on the establishment, administration and termination of Cayman trusts. The firm acts for several leading international trust companies advising them and their clients on trust solutions tailored to their client’s individual needs, and has recognised expertise in the creation of fixed and discretionary trusts, STAR trusts, reserved powers trusts, asset protection trusts, private trust companies, drafting wills and advising on estate and succession issues.

Nelsons has been involved in many of the leading trust dispute cases in the Cayman Islands over the last two decades, acting in several high-profile trust cases involving international trust structures, dealing with disputes between trustees, protectors and beneficiaries. .

Immigration and Local Licensing:
Nelsons provide comprehensive Immigration Law advice regarding applications for short-term visitor work visas, business visitor permits, temporary and long-term work permit grants and renewals for expatriate staff, together with applications for permanent residency (for work permit holders, those of independent means or those making a significant financial investment on the Islands), naturalisation and the right to be Caymanian, together with appeals to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal.

Nelsons also advises in relation to the establishment of Cayman Islands offices and branches, including registration, licensing and/or exemption applications under the Companies Act, the Companies Management Act, the Securities Investment Business Act, the Mutual Funds Act, the Banks and Trust Companies Act, the Insurance Act, the Trade and Business Licensing Act and (if necessary) the Local Companies (Control) Act.

Property:
Nelsons advises on a variety of property matters including the purchase, sale and development of commercial and residential properties in the Cayman Islands, and provides advice to banks and other institutions and individuals in connection with mortgage financing, property developers in connection with property development and landlords and tenants in connection with leases and tenancies.

Family Law:
Nelsons boasts a team of family law specialists with a wealth of experience acting both for those seeking to protect wealth and those seeking their fair share of it.The attorneys in the family law team also have experience in commercial litigation, trusts and private client work, ensuring clients receive expert advice and representation in respect to the wide ranging and sometimes complex financial arrangements that come under scrutiny in the divorce process.

In addition to the financial aspects of a divorce, Nelsons also provides advice to people considering separation, all children related matters including relocation cases. The family law team also includes an accredited mediator.