Trusts

Mourant du Feu & Jeune’s specialist Trusts practice area, which is organised into non-contentious and disputes teams, includes some of the most highly respected trust specialists in Jersey, Guernsey and Cayman. Their practice centres on acting for the leading trust service providers based in these locations.

The team is approachable, dynamic and offers great depth of experience. It focuses on the rapid provision of plain English, commercial, practical advice, adopting a positive attitude to helping trust company businesses maximise opportunities for new business and minimise liabilities from existing business.

The team’s valuable source of precedents is designed to be commercially attractive and to meet every clients’ documentation needs.

Trusts (Guernsey) Law 2007

Download the Trusts (Guernsey) Law. This new law, which came into force on 17 March 2008, will provide new opportunities for the fiduciary sector in Guernsey and better protection for both settlors and trustees including, for the first time, unlimited duration private trusts and non-charitable purpose trusts. To see a comparison of both laws please click here.

Amendment No. 4 Jersey Trusts Law

This wide ranging and important amendment to the Jersey Trusts Law came into force on Friday 27 October 2006, Download the Trusts (Amendment No. 4) Jersey Law 2006. For an insight into the rationale behind the No. 4 Amendment and certain other amendments, which may take effect in the future No. 5 Amendment to the Trusts (Jersey) Law, please see the consultation paper. Download the consultation paper. (PDF file, 180kb). For an unofficial consolidated version of the Trusts Jersey Law (including the Number 4 Amendments in blackline), Download the Delta View paper (PDF)

Proposed New Foundations Law in Jersey

The introduction in Jersey of a new law governing foundations has been proposed in a consultation paper published by Jersey’s Economic Development Committee. Foundations are not currently available in Jersey. Download the consultation paper. (PDF file, 270kb).

World Trusts Survey 2006

Mourant du Feu & Jeune’s Trusts, Dispute Resolution and Financial Service teams have recently combined forces to answer twenty stimulating trust related questions in the Jersey section to the prestigious and pragmatic Trusts & Trustees World Survey 2006. Please follow the links here for the full text of the Mourant contribution. Download the 2006 summary.Download the 2005/2006 questions (PDF file, 1001kb). Download the 2006 answers

What the Directories say

Legal 500, 2004 says that Mourant du Feu & Jeune ’handles a significant number of non-contentious instructions, frequently linked to high-value deals in other departments and often requiring great powers of invention’.

Chambers 2006 says ’Clients appreciate the "first class" Giles Corbin for his trusts expertise and his "efficient and reliable" service. "He goes out of his way to assist", said one interviewee. As Head of the Trusts team, he has experience in all aspects of non-contentious trusts law’.

For further information please contact:

Giles Corbin
Partner