Centurions Private Wealth Forum 2025
Pestana Palace Hotel, Lisbon
24 September 2025 to 26 September 2025
18:00 - 16:00 (WEST)
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"Josephine Howe is always a delight to work with, and her legal knowledge on charities and philanthropy is very impressive. She is keen to get involved and great to work with."
Chambers High Net Worth, 2025
Josephine acts for a wide range of professional trustees, high-net worth families and family offices on all issues concerning trusts and foundations as well as private wealth, probate and regulatory matters. Her principal areas of expertise include advising on the establishment, ongoing administration and restructuring of complex trust structures, family offices and private trust companies (together with all related company and commercial law issues) and on rectifying and mitigating breaches of trust. Josephine also advises on charitable and philanthropic structures.
Background and experience
Josephine works closely with her Dispute Resolution colleagues in connection with trustee representations to court and her Investment Fund colleagues in relation to Jersey's private fund regime.
Josephine has been recognised in Chambers HNW, Chambers UK, Legal 500 UK, Legal Week Private Client Global Elite and by Citywealth as a Future Leader.
Clients say that Josephine "has a huge amount of Jersey trust experience and is able to provide first-rate trust advice (technical, trustee advisory, and associated areas) in a very short timescale" and a "go-to name for establishing family offices".
Josephine is an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey, a BVI Solicitor and a Scottish Solicitor; a member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP); and a member of the Jersey Finance working party on Family Offices in Jersey. Ogier is a Platinum STEP Employer Partner.
Josephine contributes to various publications including Trust & Trustees, STEP Journal, Offshore Investment, Jersey Finance and e-private client and regularly presents to local trust companies. She is peer reviewer for 'Trust & Trustees: Foundations special edition'; co-author of the Jersey chapter of 'European Cross Border Estate Planning'; co-author of the Jersey chapter of 'Planning & Administration of Offshore & Onshore Trusts'; and a contributor to the Jersey chapter of International Succession Laws. Josephine has also spent time on secondment as in-house legal counsel to a local trust company.
Admitted in:
2021 - British Virgin Islands
2009 - Jersey
2005 - Scotland (not practising)
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News and insights
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25 July 2025 | 2 min read
"Uniformly excellent" Ogier retains tier one status in Chambers High Net Worth Guide for Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey
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Team: Rachael Reynolds KC, Anthony Partridge, Gregory Haddow, Catherine Moore, Chris Hards, James Campbell, and 2 more
Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey
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30 April 2025 | 3 min read
Meet Ogier's philanthropy expert Josephine Howe
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17 March 2025 | 5 min read
Structuring family office investments using Jersey Private Funds
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13 February 2025 | 1 min read
Ogier dominates Private Client Global Elite Directory 2025
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Team: Brian Lacy, Anthony Partridge, Rachael Reynolds KC, Jennifer Fox, Jordan Constable, Gregory Haddow, and 8 more
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6 December 2024 | 6 min read
Shaping the future: 2024 trust law developments across Ogier's offshore jurisdictions
Matt Guthrie
Team: Catherine Moore, Anthony Partridge, James Campbell, Jennifer Fox, Josephine Howe, Holly Challenger
Jersey, Guernsey, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands
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18 October 2024 | 2 min read
Ogier's "truly remarkable" Jersey team maintains top tier rankings across six practice areas
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2 October 2024 | 2 min read
Ogier's position as top tier law firm in Jersey cemented in Legal 500 rankings
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1 September 2024 | 3 min read
Charitable and philanthropic structures in Jersey
Josephine Howe
Jersey
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19 July 2024 | 2 min read
"Preeminent offshore law firm" Ogier maintains top tier ranking in Chambers High Net Worth Guide for Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey
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Recognition
"Josephine Howe handles complex queries with calm confidence. She is a very safe pair of hands"
Chambers High Net Worth, 2025
View more"Josephine Howe is helping with one of my offshore trusts. She gave the advice very quickly and it was really clear, detailed and to the point"
Chambers High Net Worth, 2025
"Josephine Howe is excellent, she is a great communicator, empathetic, very responsive and skilfully handles complex cross-border matters. "
Legal 500 UK, 2025
"Next Generation Partner"
Legal 500 UK, 2025
"Josephine is extremely commercial, with a very fast turnaround. She is a very responsive lawyer"
Chambers High Net Worth, 2023
"Josephine and her team are so approachable and I would never hesitate to get in touch with her to ask a query. I know that I will get pragmatic responses."
Chambers High Net Worth, 2024
"Josephine is very technically able and very nice to work with. "
Chambers High Net Worth, 2024
"Next Generation Partner"
Legal 500 UK, 2023 and 2024
"Josephine brings a perfect balance of professionalism, attentiveness, friendliness and level of service, each and every time"
Chambers High Net Worth, 2023
"Exceptional lawyer"
Legal 500 UK, 2023
"Josephine is very good and reliable in all matters of trust work."
"Very thorough, extremely well organised and great at explaining things to clients"
Legal 500 UK, 2023
"Short notice attention, and commercial pricing, she never fails to deliver on both"
Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2022
"Cool, calm and collected, and good with clients"
Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2022
"A very safe pair of hands for complicated and urgent trust and private client advice. An exceptionally dedicated and experienced trust lawyer"
Legal 500 UK, 2021
"They are always reachable, always revert back, arrange for any issues to be discussed, always available for a call to discuss and run through any larger transactions and draft documentation requirements"
Legal 500 UK, 2022
"Next Generation Partner"
Legal 500 UK, 2022
"Really good and capable trusts practitioner"
Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2021
"Has a huge amount of Jersey trust experience and is able to provide first-rate trust advice (technical, trustee advisory, and associated areas) in a very short timescale"
Legal 500 UK, 2021
"One to watch"
Legal Week Private Client Global Elite 'Ones to Watch' Directory, 2021
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