Damian Evans

Damian specialises in all aspects of dispute resolution and insolvency with a particular emphasis on contentious and non-contentious trust cases.

Background and experience

Damian has been involved in some of the most advanced trust litigation in Jersey as well as being regularly engaged in applications concerning the blessing of momentous trustee decisions, rectification, mistake and ratification.

Damian is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring & Insolvency Recovery team. He specialises in illiquid or insolvent trusts and formal insolvency procedures with experience in member and creditor schemes of arrangement. 

Damian has also been involved in the leading Jersey cases concerning Tax Information Exchange Agreements and the application of Sovereign Immunity in the context of enforcement of international arbitration awards.

Damian joined Ogier in January 2019, having previously been head of the Trust Disputes group at another large firm in Jersey.

Damian is a member of:

• The Jersey Law Society;
• The Middle Temple;
• The Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS);
• The Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts (ARIES); and
• An overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association of England and Wales.

Admitted in:
2012 - Jersey
2000 - England and Wales