Matt Guthrie
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Matt Guthrie
Partner
Guernsey
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.
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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.
Legal
Corporate and Fiduciary
Consulting
Practical, commercial advice on the unique combination of BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg laws.
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Dispute Resolution
Employment and Immigration
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds
Listing Services
Local Legal Services
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.
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Matt Guthrie
Partner
Guernsey
Global Senior Partner | Legal
Cayman Islands
Rachael Reynolds KC
Global Senior Partner
Cayman Islands
Partner | Legal
Jersey
James Campbell
Partner
Jersey
Partner | Legal
Jersey
Josephine Howe
Partner
Jersey
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Sandie Lyne
Partner
Guernsey
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Catherine Moore
Partner
Guernsey
Partner | Legal
Guernsey
Mathew Newman
Partner
Guernsey
Partner | Legal
Cayman Islands
Anthony Partridge
Partner
Cayman Islands
Partner | Legal
Jersey
Nick Williams
Partner
Jersey

21 July 2026 | 2 min read
Ogier secures Court of Appeal victory in Guernsey trust declaration dispute
Case
1 December 2024 | 1 min read
Advice to PE real estate firm on bespoke Jersey non-charitable purpose trust
Richard Laignel
Jersey
Deal
24 April 2024 | 1 min read
Ogier succeeds in obtaining a decision that trust funds were not the proceeds of crime
Bryan De Verneuil-Smith
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
Alex Horsbrugh-Porter
Guernsey
Case
10 August 2022 | 1 min read
Ogier acts for Equiom in complex cross-border trust case
Mathew Newman
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
James Angus
Team: Nick Williams, Matthew Davies
Jersey
Case
28 March 2022 | 1 min read
Ogier in Guernsey advises Downing on £388 million disposal
Bryon Rees
Team: Diana Collas, Catherine Moore
Guernsey
Deal
2 February 2022 | 1 min read
Ogier advises multi-family office on the structuring of a number of Jersey investment vehicles
Niamh Lalor
Team: Emily Haithwaite
Jersey
Deal
1 February 2022 | 1 min read
Ogier advises Canadian family office on establishing investment vehicle to hold private equity asset
James Campbell
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
Raulin Amy
Team: Emily Haithwaite, Jonathan Hughes
Jersey
Deal
Trusts Advisory Group
"Extremely client focused, very practical, creative thinkers"
Legal 500, 2023
22 October 2024 | 5 min read
Advising the new generation of private clients – modern entrepreneurs and wealth creators
Catherine Moore
Team: Andrew Tautscher
Guernsey
Insight
24 May 2024 | 4 min read
Safeguarding seabound assets: how to use an incorporated cell company to protect family-owned shipping ventures
Jonathan Hughes
Team: Sarah Mercury
Jersey, Guernsey
Insight
27 March 2024 | 1 min read
Executor removal in Jersey: Insights from Lakeman case
Henry Wickham
Team: Rebecca McNulty
Jersey
Insight
18 March 2024 | 3 min read
Is it time for the flee clause to come in from the cold?
Jordan Constable
Team: Gregory Haddow
Cayman Islands
Insight
28 February 2024 | 4 min read
No contest clauses: a Cayman perspective
Jordan Constable
Team: Gregory Haddow
Cayman Islands
Insight
28 February 2024 | 4 min read
Variations to trusts: what does the Court need to know before it will give its approval?
James Angus
Team: Rebecca McNulty, Matthew Davies
Jersey
Insight

24 January 2024 | 7 min read
Conversations with the next gen: the big picture in private wealth – balancing trustee duties in an ESG-driven environment
Insight
19 January 2024 | 8 min read
Private Trust Companies, Single Family Offices and Governance Entities – Registering for AML supervision under Jersey's proceeds of crime legislation
James Campbell
Team: Emily Haithwaite, Josephine Howe, Matthew Shaxson, George Yates, Jamie Biddle
Jersey
Insight
14 December 2023 | 3 min read
Update for registered Guernsey entities
Catherine Moore
Team: Richard Sharp
Guernsey
Insight
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