Offshore: Trusts
UK Guide 2025 : Guernsey
Band 1
Email address
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+44 1481 721672About
Provided by Ogier
Ogier's Guernsey Private Client and Trusts team is led by partner Gavin Ferguson. The team advises trustees, private banks and ultra-high net worth clients on the lifecycle of trusts from establishment, restructuring and administration to succession planning. We have in-depth knowledge of trusts and foundations, enabling us to provide flexible and practical guidance on choosing the most effective jurisdiction. The team combines with our corporate specialists to provide commercially focused corporate advice regarding companies that underlie trust structures or on new investments structures as they arise.
Ogier's Trusts Advisory Group draws together experts from different disciplines and locations - Jersey, Guernsey, BVI, Cayman and Hong Kong - to provide a seamless contentious and non-contentious advisory service which also includes relevant corporate support.
Key contacts
Gavin Ferguson provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary services to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities, and is qualified in Guernsey, BVI and England and Wales. Chambers UK 2017: "One of the island's top trust lawyers."
Marcus Leese specialises in banking and finance (including structured finance), corporate and commercial, investment funds, private wealth and trusts. Client feedback: "Marcus has always been available and truly provides a practical, partner led, and personal service."
Chambers Review
Ogier advises on the creation and administration of trusts for asset protection, succession, tax and family governance purposes. The firm can also represent clients involved in trusts disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ogier is pragmatic, alert to risks and engaging enough to listen to clients in order to carve the most sensible path."
"Ogier are always very knowledgeable and provide excellent guidance and advice on complex matters."
"Ogier is pragmatic, alert to risks and engaging enough to listen to clients in order to carve the most sensible path."
"Ogier are always very knowledgeable and provide excellent guidance and advice on complex matters."
Notable Practitioners
Matthew Guthrie leads the firm's private wealth team in Guernsey and is hugely well regarded for advising on complex trust matters.
"Matthew is absolutely first-rate counsel."
"Matthew is a lateral thinker and really goes beyond just the textbook. Innovation is where he really excels and thinks of solutions."
Catherine Moore advises on a range of non-contentious matters, including trust structuring and trust disputes. Her clients include high net worth individuals and fiduciaries.
"Catherine is a great technician with the ability to simplify the most complex matters."
Chris Hards advises on a range of non-contentious trust matters.
"Very sound legal advice with excellent commercial knowledge."
Ranked Lawyers at
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