Jonathan Hughes
Partner | Legal
Jersey
Partner
Jersey
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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Local businesses are the engine room of the Channel Islands’ economy.
With 13 international offices and a diverse practice, most of our work is for international organisations in the financial services sector. But our heart is in the Channel Islands and we’ve never taken our focus away from the local market.
Whether it’s a family business, an entrepreneurial start-up or the local arm of a larger operation, what businesses need to thrive in an ever-changing economy are trusted advisors who understand how to take advantage of opportunity, manage challenges and mitigate risk.
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We regularly assist clients in Jersey and Guernsey who are buying or selling a business, entering into a joint venture, or reorganising their existing structure.
We also provide advice on the day to day corporate and commercial issues that arise for businesses operating in the Islands, from financing and corporate governance issues to terms of business and commercial contracts.
We advise on all aspects of competition law in Jersey and Guernsey, not only where companies and businesses are being bought and sold but also where issues arise in relation to potentially anticompetitive arrangements or the abuse of a dominant position.
We advise and represent clients in a wide range of contentious matters in our jurisdictions. These can range from company commercial disputes through to property, contentious wills and trusts and financial claims, including those involving insolvency proceedings. Our advocates appear before the Royal Court regularly and we are also experienced in alternative forms of resolution such as mediation, arbitration and expert determination. Our Dispute Resolution team is equally renowned for its work offering guidance and support to clients in relation to contentious regulatory matters.
We provide a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law advice which includes guidance for HR teams on employment law, including legal developments across the Channel Islands. This includes advice on work and housing regulations and immigration issues, as well as on claims (or potential claims) around employee health and safety and fatal accidents.
We advise individuals, intermediaries and corporate trustees on Guernsey and Jersey trust law and the right structures for individuals and families.
Estate planning includes wills and will trusts for local residents. Whether the wealth structure is established for succession, asset protection, tax efficiency, family governance or confidentiality, our team of lawyers deliver a discreet and professional service that robustly meets your objectives.
Find out more about our Estate Planning, Wills and Probate services
Ogier's new lasting power of attorney questionnaire enables you, in your own space and time, to put together all of the information needed for us to draft lasting powers of attorney for you. Your answers to our questionnaire will be put into the required legal format and reviewed by our team before sending this to you so that you can make sure that the lasting powers of attorney reflect your wishes. We will then arrange a meeting at our offices where you will be able to sign your lasting powers of attorney before registering your lasting powers of attorney at the Greffe.
Our team has strong expertise in all local elements of planning, construction and environmental law, including health and safety requirements. We are regularly called on to give advice to developers and landowners, providing a clear, responsive and commercially minded service that enables clients to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate risks.
Our full-service Jersey and Guernsey property law teams are well known for executing some of the largest and most complex commercial property transactions with accuracy and speed. We provide a responsive, constructive and commercially aware client service for large and small businesses.
We work for local landlords, tenants, developers and financiers as well as institutional investors of international repute. We also handle a wide range of local residential transactions ranging from the purchase and sale of the most valuable and prestigious properties in the islands to flats and starter homes. Our residential property team is highly recommended by local agents, banks and the people we have helped to buy, sell and finance their property.
We help clients meet regulatory requirements when setting up and undertaking businesses in the islands. Our highly regarded local expertise, together with our long established and trusted reputation, enables us to give clients pragmatic and commercial regulatory advice.
An increasing number of businesses, their leading individuals and families are relocating to the Channel Islands, citing business friendly environments and quality of lifestyles as the motivating factors as well as being tax advantageous.
Choosing a jurisdiction that is to become your home is about finding somewhere that works for your wealth but, first and foremost, works for you and your family too.
Find out more about relocating with your family to the Channel Islands
Through our Trusts Advisory Group we offer an integrated contentious and non-contentious trusts advisory service. Our contentious trusts team can also help to resolve disputes concerning trusts and foundations, should the need arise.
Jonathan Hughes
Partner | Legal
Jersey
Partner
Jersey
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Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services | Legal
Jersey
Director of Local Legal Services
Jersey
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Martyn Baudains
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Partner
Guernsey
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Katharine Marshall
Partner | Legal
Jersey
Partner
Jersey
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Jonathan Anderson
Counsel | Legal
Guernsey, Jersey
Counsel
Guernsey, Jersey
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Rachel DeSanges
Head of Employment, Guernsey | Legal
Guernsey, London
Head of Employment, Guernsey
Guernsey, London
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30 March 2023
Ogier advises Yesss Electrical Guernsey on significant commercial premises purchase
Team: Jonathan Anderson, Martín Casas, Daniel Harradine
Guernsey
Deal
21 December 2022
Ogier advises on £4.65 million sale of industrial property unit in Guernsey
Team: Jonathan Anderson, Daniel Harradine
Guernsey
Deal
3 March 2022
Ogier's real estate team acts for lender in £12 million facility for Siena Group
Team: Laura Shirreffs, Stephanie Button
Jersey
Deal
13 December 2021
Ogier's real estate team act for lender in financing of Jersey's IFC6
Team: Katrina Edge, Kate McCaffrey, Laura Shirreffs
Jersey
Deal
25 June 2020 | 1 min read
Ogier advises Brooks Macdonald on acquisition of Channel Islands wealth management and funds business of Lloyds Bank International
Team: Bryon Rees, Matthew Shaxson, Helen Ruelle, Rachel DeSanges, Will Austin-Vautier, Joanna Christensen, and 1 more
Guernsey, Jersey
Deal
20 December 2019 | 1 min read
Ogier's Guernsey teams demonstrate strength in complex, cross-border transactions through 2019
Team: Simon Davies, Gavin Ferguson, Christopher Jones, Mathew Newman, Bryon Rees
Guernsey
Deal
2 October 2019
Ogier acts for major property developer RED Fund on purchase of Guernsey's L'Erée Bay Hotel
Team: Martín Casas, Piers Dereham, Daniel Harradine
Guernsey
Deal
25 September 2019
Ogier advises Jersey Evening Post on relocation
Team: Katharine Marshall, Sarah Parish
Jersey
Deal
14 January 2019
Ogier advises TMF Group on purchase of State Street’s Private Equity and Real Estate business
Team: Matthew Shaxson, Rachel DeSanges, Rebekah Agyeman, Will Austin-Vautier, Martín Casas, Michelle Watson Bunn, and 2 more
Jersey, Guernsey
Deal
26 November 2018
Ogier advises on £43.7m IFC deal
Team: Martín Casas, Sarah Parish, Chloe Watson-Hill
Jersey, Guernsey
Deal
Channel Islands local legal services
"High-calibre, experienced experts"
Chambers, 2023
2 October 2024 | 1 min read
Ogier ranked top tier in 15 practice areas in latest Legal 500 UK guide
News
19 June 2024 | 2 min read
Why not let out your Jersey property so others can enjoy an island retreat?
Jersey
Insight
6 May 2024 | 3 min read
Buying an Open Market house and living in Guernsey
Team: Jonathan Hughes
Guernsey
Insight
22 April 2024 | 2 min read
Jersey introduces licensing scheme for landlords
Jersey
Insight
22 April 2024 | 2 min read
Middle East focus: Family office investments and Jersey Private Funds
Team: James Campbell, Jonathan Hughes
Jersey, Dubai
Insight
14 April 2024 | 5 min read
Establishing a Family Office in Jersey
Team: James Campbell, Jonathan Hughes, Helen Ruelle
Jersey
Insight
27 March 2024 | 1 min read
Executor removal in Jersey: Insights from Lakeman case
Team: Rebecca McNulty
Jersey
Insight
1 January 2024 | 1 min read
I am domiciled in Jersey, do I have freedom to leave my assets to whomever I want when writing my Will
Team: Fiona Lilleyman
Jersey
Insight
4 December 2023 | 5 min read
Why do you need to protect the name of your fund as a trade mark?
Team: James Bergstrom, Emily Haithwaite, Tim Clipstone, Niamh Lalor, Sophie Reguengo, Bryon Rees
Jersey, London, British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, and 2 more
Insight
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