
Jonathan Hughes
Partner
Legal
Jersey

Jonathan Hughes
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.
Services
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.
Sectors
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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Corporate and Fiduciary
Consulting
Ogier provides practical advice on a unique combination of six laws: BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg. Our global network covers Asian, European and US time zones.
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Dispute Resolution
Employment law
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds
Listing services
Local Legal Services
Private Wealth
Property law
Regulatory
Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Tax
Banking and Finance overview
Asset Finance
CAYLUX Fund Finance
Debt Capital Markets
Derivatives
Fund Finance
Islamic Finance
Leveraged Finance
Listing services
Real Estate Finance
Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Structured Finance
Sustainable Finance
Regulatory
Corporate overview
Economic Substance
Equity Capital Markets
Listing services
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity
Real Estate Structuring, Acquisitions and Disposals
Regulatory
Technology and Web3
Dispute Resolution overview
Banking Disputes
Corporate and Financial Services Disputes
Crypto Disputes
Enforcement of Judgments and Awards
Fraud and Asset Tracing
Funds Disputes
Insurance Disputes
International Arbitration
Regulatory
Restructuring and Corporate Recovery
Section 238 Shareholder Appraisal Rights
Shareholder and Valuation Disputes
Trusts Disputes and Applications
Investment Funds overview
Hedge Funds
Managers and Sponsors
Private Equity
Real Estate, Infrastructure and Energy Funds
Regulatory
Sustainable Investing and Impact Funds
Technology and Web3
Local Legal Services overview
Cayman Local Legal Services
Channel Islands Local Legal Services
Ireland Local Legal Services
Employment law
Estate Planning, Wills and Probate
Expat services
Family Office
Intellectual Property
Make your Guernsey will online
Make your Jersey lasting power of attorney online
Make your Jersey will online
Notary public services
Relocating your business
Relocating your family
Property law
Providing exceptional and efficient service, our Corporate, Funds, Private Wealth and Capital Markets teams offer clients integrated legal and corporate administration services with a strong reputation in governance and regulatory compliance.
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Debt Capital Markets - Ogier Global
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Investor Services - Ogier Global
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Private Wealth Services - Ogier Global
Real Estate Services - Ogier Global
Regulatory and Compliance Services - Ogier Global
Our experts provide independent guidance spanning advice and training to implementation and evaluation across sustainable investing, regulatory compliance and tech. Our tailored advice meets clients' specific needs, delivering flexible solutions and support.
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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We get straight to the point, managing complexity to get to the essentials. Our global network of offices covers every time zone.Â
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Local businesses are the engine room of the Channel Islands’ economy.
With 12 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.
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Jonathan Hughes
Partner
Legal
Jersey
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Partner
Jersey
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Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services
Legal
Jersey
Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services
Jersey
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Martyn Baudains
Partner
Legal
Guernsey
Martyn Baudains
Partner
Guernsey
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Katharine Marshall
Partner
Legal
Jersey
Katharine Marshall
Partner
Jersey
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Jonathan Anderson
Counsel
Legal
Guernsey, Jersey
Jonathan Anderson
Counsel
Guernsey, Jersey
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Rachel DeSanges
Head of Employment, Guernsey
Legal
Guernsey, London
Rachel DeSanges
Head of Employment, Guernsey
Guernsey, London
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Deal
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Deal
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Deal
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Team: Martín Casas, Piers Dereham, Daniel Harradine
Guernsey
Deal
25 September 2019
Ogier advises Jersey Evening Post on relocation
Jonathan Hughes
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
Bryon Rees
Team: Matthew Shaxson, Rachel DeSanges, Rebekah Agyeman, Will Austin-Vautier, Martín Casas, Michelle Watson Bunn, and 3 more
Jersey, Guernsey
Deal
26 November 2018
Ogier advises on £43.7m IFC deal
Jonathan Hughes
Team: Martín Casas, Sarah Parish, Chloe Watson-Hill
Jersey, Guernsey
Deal
Channel Islands local legal services
"High-calibre, experienced experts"
Chambers, 2023
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Henry Wickham
Jersey, Guernsey
Insight
17 July 2023 | 2 min read
Who will inherit your home? Important things to consider
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Jersey
Insight
13 July 2023 | 5 min read
The new JFSC Outsourcing Policy: overview, impact and actions required
Matt McManus
Team: Emily Haithwaite, Niamh Lalor, Sophie Reguengo
Jersey
Insight
5 July 2023 | 5 min read
Jersey: a home for private equity fund managers
Jonathan Hughes
Team: Emily Haithwaite
Jersey
Insight
30 June 2023 | 3 min read
Proposed changes to Jersey's Probate Law
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Jersey
Insight
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Insight
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Insight
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Jersey
Insight
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Insight
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