Alexa Saunders
High Net Worth Guide 2024
Band 1 : Offshore: Trusts
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About
Provided by Alexa Saunders
Practice Areas
Alexa is a partner in the trusts and private wealth group and has a broad non-contentious and semi-contentious trust practice.
Alexa regularly advises in connection with private family trusts, employee benefit trusts and pension trusts, including on the establishment of new trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising trustees in connection with the ongoing administration of trusts.
Alexa has also dealt with numerous applications to the Royal Court of Jersey acting for trustees, beneficiaries and protectors in all types of trust proceedings, including applications by trustees for directions from the Royal Court in the context of beneficiaries who are involved in divorce proceedings before foreign courts, applications for the setting aside of transactions on the ground of mistake or for the rectification of trust instruments and ancillary documents.
Career
Alexa qualified as a Jersey Advocate in 2009 and as an English solicitor in 2005 (currently non-practising). Prior to joining Carey Olsen in 2011, Alexa was a senior associate in the trusts group of another law firm in Jersey. She became a partner at Carey Olsen in 2016.
Chambers Review
High Net Worth
Alexa Saunders is a trusts lawyer in Jersey specialising in non-contentious matters. She has recently taken over as head of the trusts and private wealth team, and has a well-regarded practice.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Alexa Saunders is a great lawyer to work with as she is very approachable and has an excellent grasp of the Jersey legal landscape."
"I would very happily recommend Alexa. She's an extremely able trusts lawyer in Jersey. Her ability to come up with sound advice is hugely impressive. She's one of the leading Jersey trusts lawyers."
"Alexa Saunders is a great lawyer to work with as she is very approachable and has an excellent grasp of the Jersey legal landscape."
"I would very happily recommend Alexa. She's an extremely able trusts lawyer in Jersey. Her ability to come up with sound advice is hugely impressive. She's one of the leading Jersey trusts lawyers."