Matt Guthrie
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Partner
Guernsey
Big things are happening at Ogier. Change is embedded in everything we do. It is redefining our talent, our ways of working, our platforms of delivery, our culture.
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We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
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Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
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Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
Ogier provides practical advice on BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law through our global network of offices across the Asian, Caribbean and European timezones. Ogier is the only firm to advise on this unique combination of laws.
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Private clients need trusted advisers. The strength of our team is in the quality and breadth of experience of our lawyers, who work together to deliver a discreet and professional service.
Ogier's Trusts Advisory Group draws together experts from different disciplines and locations to provide a seamless contentious and non-contentious advisory service which also includes relevant corporate support.
Our Private Wealth 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.
The Trusts Advisory Group draws together contentious and non-contentious trust practitioners. Our Dispute Resolution specialists have a particularly strong track record, having acted successfully in many of the headline international trust and private client matters in recent years in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey.
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Matt Guthrie
Partner | Legal
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24 April 2024 | 1 min read
Ogier succeeds in obtaining a decision that trust funds were not the proceeds of crime
Team: Chloe Gill, Natália Jopling Tanser
Guernsey
Case
22 August 2022 | 0 min read
Ogier acts for members of the API Airline Pilots Medical Scheme
Guernsey
Case
10 August 2022 | 1 min read
Ogier acts for Equiom in complex cross-border trust case
Team: Bryan De Verneuil-Smith, Michael Rogers
Guernsey
Case
11 May 2022 | 1 min read
Ogier succeeds in securing a multi-million fraud judgment for BDO and Creditforce Limited
Team: Nick Williams, Matthew Davies
Jersey
Case
28 March 2022
Ogier in Guernsey advises Downing on £388 million disposal
Team: Diana Collas, Catherine Moore
Guernsey
Deal
2 February 2022
Ogier advises multi-family office on the structuring of a number of Jersey investment vehicles
Team: Emily Haithwaite
Jersey
Deal
1 February 2022
Ogier advises Canadian family office on establishing investment vehicle to hold private equity asset
Team: Emily Haithwaite, Richard Laignel
Jersey
Deal
10 June 2021 | 1 min read
Ogier advises family office on the establishment of a Jersey investment management company
Team: Emily Haithwaite, Jonathan Hughes
Jersey
Deal
3 June 2021 | 1 min read
Ogier advises UK-based family office on discretionary investment platform
Team: James Campbell, Emily Haithwaite
Jersey
Deal
9 March 2021 | 1 min read
Ogier successfully seeks stay in the matter of the Stingray Trust
Team: Deborah Barker Roye
Cayman Islands
Case
Trusts Advisory Group
"Extremely client focused, very practical, creative thinkers"
Legal 500, 2023
6 December 2024 | 6 min read
Shaping the future: 2024 trust law developments across Ogier's offshore jurisdictions
Team: Catherine Moore, Katherine Neal, Anthony Partridge, Jennifer Fox
Jersey, Guernsey, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands
Insight
6 December 2024 | 2 min read
Conversation with the next gen: preparing for the great wealth transfer
Insight
4 December 2024 | 6 min read
Can and should trust disputes be arbitrated in the BVI?
Team: Anna Snead, Aditi Kulshrestha
British Virgin Islands
Insight
20 November 2024 | 3 min read
International Fraud Awareness Week 2024: taking action internationally
Insight
14 November 2024 | 1 min read
Double award win at Citywealth Future Leaders Awards 2024: two of Ogier's Private Wealth rising stars recognised among industry leaders
News
8 November 2024 | 3 min read
Ogier in Cayman Islands recognised as a leading firm in Legal 500 Caribbean 2025 rankings
News
8 November 2024 | 1 min read
Praise for Ogier's BVI and Cayman offices in Legal 500 Caribbean 2025
News
4 November 2024 | 1 min read
Ogier recognised as the largest top-tier offshore law firm in eprivateclient 2024 listing
News
22 October 2024 | 5 min read
Advising the new generation of private clients – modern entrepreneurs and wealth creators
Team: Andrew Tautscher
Guernsey
Insight
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