20 December 2019
Ogier's Guernsey teams demonstrate strength in complex, cross-border transactions through 2019

Martyn Baudains
Team: Simon Davies, Gavin Ferguson, Christopher Jones, Mathew Newman, Bryon Rees
Guernsey
Deal
Legal 500 UK, 2023
Gavin is partner in Ogier's Private Wealth team in Guernsey, and provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary services to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities, and is qualified in Guernsey, BVI and England and Wales.
Gavin is partner in Ogier's Private Wealth team in Guernsey, and provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary services to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities. He advises on all aspects of trust and foundation law, including in respect of their creation, reorganisation and administration.
He also advises on regulatory matters, general private client matters (including probate) and has an interest in Sharia compliant fiduciary structures.
Gavin is a qualified Guernsey Advocate, BVI solicitor, English solicitor and Notary Public, and holds a personal fiduciary license which permits him to act as a director, protector, enforcer, guardian and council member.
He was praised for his "very high degree of expertise" in trust and private wealth work, and described as "one of the island's top trust lawyers" in client feedback cited in the Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2017. Client feedback quotes by Legal 500 described him as "astute, affable, technically knowledgeable and efficient".
Gavin is a STEP member and a contributing author to the STEP Certificate in Foundations. He is a council member of the International Wealth Advisers Forum 2.0, a Chartered Member of the CISI, a member of the International Tax Planning Association and Jurisdiction Editor for the Guernsey section of the ITPA's Porfolio of Laws. Gavin is also a contributor to International Trust Precedents.
Gavin is a founding member and the current Guardian of local male cancer charity, MUG; and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands.
Admitted in:
2017 - Notary Public (Guernsey)
2014 - BVI
2007 - Guernsey
2003 - England & Wales
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"Top-quality lawyer who is very pragmatic and responsive"
Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2022
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