We advise on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law across a global network of nine international offices.
We are 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.
Our clients include global financial institutions, investment funds, private equity houses, multi-national corporations, public organisations, sovereign wealth funds, ultra high net worth individuals, family offices, directors, trustees and private clients.
We work alongside all of the major onshore law firms, accountancy firms and insolvency practitioners on corporate transactions and matters involving our jurisdictions.
Our advice is delivered by an approachable and experienced team of globally-minded lawyers who work in partnership with our clients to help them achieve their objectives. We have the expertise and resources to handle the most complex international transactions combined with a personal approach to business.
In the face of opportunities or challenges, our clients know that the advice and guidance they receive from us will be based on a complete understanding of their goals and objectives combined with outstanding client service, technical excellence and commercial insight.
Whether playing a lead or a supporting role, we always look at the bigger picture.
We act for a diverse range of international and local organisations and represent more LSE-listed clients than any other offshore law firm (Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide).
Our lawyers are skilled at creating new structures for commercial growth, advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions and completing exchange-based listings, as well as advising boards and shareholders.
The scale of our corporate practice enables us to structure the team according to our role, whether we are providing focused advice directly to our clients or acting in partnership with onshore advisers on complex international transactions. We match the level of resource to your requirements, expectations and deadlines, giving you the commercial agility to achieve your objectives.
We have a global approach and, alongside our corporate specialisms, we provide regulatory, employment, pensions, litigation, property and commercial advice. This integrated expertise enables us to form broader teams across legal disciplines and jurisdictions when necessary.
We are widely recognised for our expertise in both international and domestic cases, including investment fund, corporate, commercial and civil disputes, banking, financial services and trusts litigation, fraud and asset tracing claims, regulatory investigations, employment disputes and advisory work.
Our experts are well-versed in claims against directors, directors' duties, shareholder and investor activism, joint venture and M&A disputes, claims arising from demergers and reorganisations, derivative proceedings, unfair prejudice petitions and contested schemes of arrangement and insolvencies. We also provide board advisory services to distressed corporates facing financial and other pressures.
We are counsel to multinational corporations, financial institutions, banks, funds, insurers, trust companies, governments and private individuals. We regularly work in partnership with international law firms on the most complex and significant cases.
From mediation to trial advocacy, we successfully guide our clients through the full range of disputes, from multi-party, cross-jurisdictional corporate litigation to domestic claims before the local courts. We have also represented clients before the Privy Council. Many of our cases have established judicial precedents that are referred to in jurisdictions around the world.
For further information about our services, please download our global dispute resolution brochure.
Our clients include financial institutions, commercial businesses, actuaries, pension consultants and trustees who come to us either on an ad hoc basis or who retain our services for ongoing advice.
We work with clients in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey as well as being instructed by international law firms, accountancy practices and tax advisers.
We have the scale and expertise to resource heavyweight contentious employment disputes and tribunal matters and we can also support you and your business in non-contentious areas of work. We are well-versed in relation to large takeovers and business amalgamations and, as a full service firm, can provide support wherever you need it. This includes calling upon our established trusts and investment funds practices for their expertise on pensions matters.
Our lawyers are at the forefront of changes affecting the sector and work closely with clients and industry bodies on developments to the statutory and regulatory frameworks.
Carey Olsen has one of the largest trusts and private wealth teams in the offshore world, and provides advice on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey to local and international clients and their advisers.
Our offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, with growing private wealth practices, also ensure that we are able to advise clients in Asia on both contentious and non-contentious trusts and private wealth matters.
Our global reach, scale and experience means that we are 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. We understand the longevity of trusts work, which is why we focus on building long-term relationships with our clients and their other advisers.
We represent professional trustees, private individuals and families, banks, financial institutions and charities from all over the world. International law firms and accountancy practices look to us for support on projects that require specialist advice on the laws and regulations of our jurisdictions.
Our lawyers work across a range of structures including private, corporate, charitable, purpose and commercial trusts, foundations, family offices, partnerships and companies. We advise on settlor reserved power trusts, private trust company arrangements, pension and employee benefit schemes, wills and matters of inheritance, international estate planning, regulatory advice and trust-related disputes.
With a fully integrated practice, we also represent trustees, executors and beneficiaries in contentious matters such as breach of trust actions, estate disputes, and other administrative applications that need to be made to the courts. Our 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.
With a combined experience of over 150 years, we have one of the largest and most experienced commercial and residential advisory teams in the Channel Islands and we have acted on some of the significant and high value property transactions in these jurisdictions.
We apply consistently high standards of service and technical expertise to support our clients in every area of property law to help them reach their objectives.
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Our dedicated restructuring and insolvency lawyers across our international network of offices apply their knowledge of insolvency law, regulatory guidance and litigation practice to the full spectrum of cross-border restructuring, recovery and insolvency matters involving Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law.
We work in partnership with some of the world’s leading legal and accountancy practices advising clients operating across a range of industries. This includes private equity, venture capital, real estate, financial services, corporate and private trusts and pensions.
Our leading position in the investment funds market makes us the first port of call in times of distress for lenders, fund managers and directors.
We are frequently instructed on the planning and implementation of formal insolvency processes involving our jurisdictions. Our lawyers are skilled and experienced in contentious and non-contentious processes and have been involved in a significant number of the major formal insolvency proceedings in recent years. Leading practitioners across the jurisdictions in which we operate, have played key roles in the developing and extending many of the core areas of insolvency law and practice.
Our restructuring lawyers have a practical and in-depth understanding of the technical issues that can arise in restructuring situations, whether around merger, acquisition, reorganisation, workout or recapitalisation activities.
Our advice focusses on furthering our clients’ commercial aims; typically preserving the assets of a business or the value of an investment, while identifying and implementing a viable restructuring transaction, exit strategy or litigation plan.
Our teams have wide experience acting in respect of the structuring, acquisition and enforcement of debt. We have advised both borrowers and lenders in respect of security enforcement options including the implementation of strategies to achieve value for the acquirers of non-performing loans.
We recognise that insolvency processes are being employed in an ever more creative manner, whether to assist in the enforcement of judgments and awards, or to preserve assets for the victims of fraud. We continue to advise insolvency appointees, government agencies, judgment creditors and financial institutions in the exercise of their powers in foreign jurisdictions and to enforce their rights throughout the offshore world.
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