19 July 2022
Power struggles: challenges based on capacity and undue influence
Chris Vincent
Team: Samantha Conolly
Cayman Islands
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"Chris is calm, always concentrated, clear and straightforward even in the midst of the toughest litigation. I strongly recommend Chris's advice for any trust and/or business related matter."
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Chris is an associate in the Dispute Resolution team at Ogier. He specialises in commercial litigation and contentious advisory work. This includes multi-jurisdictional trust matters, banking, partnership, fund and company disputes. He also has broad experience in court-sanctioned restructurings, insolvency procedures and estate administration.
Background and experience
Chris joined the Dispute Resolution team as an associate in 2022 from another leading offshore law firm. He qualified as a Jersey Solicitor in 2017 and a Jersey Advocate in 2018.
Chris has broad experience in offshore contentious disputes and non-contentious applications, with a particular emphasis on trust and probate disputes. He regularly acts for ultra-high net worth families, trust companies and executors and has contributed, as part of a legal team, in securing certain of the highest value decisions in the offshore space. His experience includes trust and estate directions applications, restructuring applications, trustee removal applications, proceedings concerning the deprivation of a trustee's right of indemnity, proceedings concerning insolvent trusts and breach of trust proceedings. Since joining the team, Chris continues to advise and assist on extremely high value and cross-jurisdictional trust and probate matters in the private client space.
Chris has been named in ePrivateclient's Top 35 Under 35 (Channel Islands) and Citywealth's Future Leaders Top 100: Super Advisors lists. He has also been shortlisted for the Citywealth Future Leaders Awards in the Lawyer of the Year - IFC – Associate category
Admitted in:
2022 – Cayman Islands
2018 – England and Wales (non practising)
2017 – Jersey (non practising)
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Recognition
"It is a pleasure to work with Chris. He is a talented lawyer with an impressive ability to master the factual detail of a case quickly and to give clear and precise advice with authority. His written advocacy is tightly-crafted and compelling. Chris is an excellent team-team player who develops an easy rapport with colleagues and clients alike. He has the hallmarks of a first-rate litigator: he is tenacious and energetic, composed when under pressure, has a forensic eye for detail and displays sound judgment."
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