Guernsey

Ogier’s Guernsey team provides a full range of legal and corporate and fiduciary services and regularly acts for leading global financial institutions, investment managers and corporate entities, law firms, intermediaries and private clients.

We provide legal expertise in finance, including banking and finance, insurance and reinsurance, investment funds and private equity, restructuring and insolvency and commercial and trust dispute resolution.

In addition, we offer pan-Channel Islands local legal services for Guernsey and Jersey businesses and individuals. Our practice focuses on employment and immigration law, property law (including a specialist property, planning and construction service) and all aspects of trust and private wealth matters. 

Our Corporate and Fiduciary services team, Ogier Global, works closely with Ogier's partner-led legal teams to incorporate and administer a wide variety of vehicles.

Ogier in Guernsey

Our track record

Guernsey is home to The International Stock Exchange (TISE), and through our listing agent, Ogier Corporate Finance Limited, we are one of the leading listing agents in the offshore listing market.

For our transactional works, we are instructed on many of the noteworthy and complex matters that involve Guernsey including: 

• Advising Natwest on its £2.7 billion acquistion of Evelyn Partners Group 
• Advising SMBC on its facility to Janus Bidco for the take-private of Apax Global Alpha 
• Advising Portunes Pension Capital on landmark UK capital-backed pension transaction 
• Advising 1818 Fund Management Limited on the launch and restructuring of 1818 VC Fund I LP 
• Advising BNP Paribas on the integration of its asset management activities 
• Advising Honeywell of its US$2 billion acquisition of Sundyne 

We are also involved in some of the substantial dispute resolution cases in Guernsey, including the noteworthy insolvencies of Woolworths, Huelin Renouf and Zavvi online and the US$1 billion Carlyle Group investment fund dispute which is Guernsey's most substantial piece of litigation. 

We have been at the heart of the island since 1998 and were a founding member of TISE when it launched in the same year.

Global recognition 

Ogier in Guernsey is highly ranked by Legal 500, Chambers UK and IFLR1000 for corporate, finance, banking and investment funds work. 

The firm has maintained top rankings in the Chambers High Net Worth guide 2026 for Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey, with Guernsey practice clients praising Ogier as the “first port of call for complex and sophisticated instructions”. 

Ogier has been recognised among the leading law firms globally for its restructuring and insolvency offering by independent media group Global Restructuring Review (GRR). 

Why Guernsey? 

Guernsey's is a leading international finance centre. Its long history of financial and political stability, good banking and professional infrastructure, GMT time zone and proximity to the UK and Europe, have helped maintain its reputation as a first-class jurisdiction to conduct business.

Being a Crown Dependency, the island benefits from constitutional rights of self-government and judicial independence. Guernsey provides an independent international finance centre for businesses and investors which remains close to the major economic hubs in the UK and Europe.

The Bailiwick of Guernsey has a well-established legal and regulatory system which has been enhanced over the years by the introduction of modern legislation covering all important aspects of the finance industry. Guernsey is a G20 whitelist approved jurisdiction and an associate member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The island’s sound reputation has made it a jurisdiction of choice for London Stock Exchange (LSE) listings. Guernsey has more entities listed on the LSE than any other jurisdiction globally (excluding the UK), according to figures from the market authority. 

Guernsey is a leader in sustainable finance, boasting significant new product launches over the past 10 years. These include a world-first regulated green fund product, the Guernsey Green Fund, and the launch of the world’s first regulated natural capital and diversity investment funds designation, the Natural Capital Fund. As at Q1 2026, Guernsey sustainable funds held a total NAV of £4.4 billion.