Carey Olsen

Firm Details

Group Managing Partners: Michael Hanson and Simon Marks

Managing Partners: Michael Hanson (Bermuda), Alex Hall-Taylor (British Virgin Islands), Sam Dawson (Cayman Islands), Tom Carey (Guernsey), Michael Padarin (Hong Kong), Simon Marks (Jersey), Anthony McKenzie (Singapore)

Number of partners: 83

Number of lawyers: 300+

Staff worldwide: 650+

Languages: The firm accommodates a wide range of languages

Firm Overview:

Carey Olsen is one of the leading offshore law firms and has one of the largest trusts and private wealth legal teams in the offshore world. The team has 55 partners and associates advising in this sector on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey to local and international clients and their advisers.

The offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, with growing private wealth practices, also ensure that clients in Asia are advised on both contentious and non-contentious trusts and private wealth matters.

The firm's global reach, scale and experience makes it perfectly positioned to assist and advise on the most demanding and complex cases concerning wealth planning and asset protection as well as the more straightforward day-to-day instructions. Carey Olsen understands the longevity of trusts and private client work, which is why it focuses on building long-term relationships with its clients and their other advisers.

Carey Olsen represents professional trustees, private individuals and families, banks, financial institutions and charities from all over the world. International law firms and accountancy practices look at the firm for support on projects that require specialist advice on the laws and regulations of its jurisdictions.

The team of lawyers work across a range of structures including private, corporate, charitable, purpose and commercial trusts, foundations, family offices, partnerships and companies. They advise on settlor reserved powers, pension and employee benefit schemes, wills and matters of inheritance, international estate planning and regulatory advice.

With a fully integrated practice, trustees, executors and beneficiaries are also represented in contentious matters such as breach of trust actions, estate disputes, and other administrative applications that need to be made to the courts. The team's contentious trust lawyers have appeared in many significant offshore trust cases to come before the courts, including representing clients before the Privy Council in the UK.

Many of the firm's lawyers are recognised by the legal directories as leaders in their jurisdictions for their trusts and private wealth advice. The firm was named "Offshore Law Firm of the Year" in 2023 2024 at the Chambers HNW awards - the last two times the category has been awarded.

Carey Olsen is also a full service law firm working across banking and finance, corporate and M&A, investment funds and private equity, trusts and private wealth, dispute resolution, insolvency and property law. For further information on the services offered please visit www.careyolsen.com.