Chambers Global Practice Guides - Private Wealth 2023

Leading Mourant trust and private client lawyers from the firm's International Trusts and Private Client practice have authored the Guernsey and Jersey 'Law and Practice' sections of the Chambers and Partners Private Wealth Guide 2023.

Global Practice Leader Ed Devenport and Senior Associate Chiara Mundy contributed to the Jersey chapter, with the Head of the firm's Guernsey practice, Gilly Kennedy-Smith, alongside Senior Associate Alexander Hawkins, lending their expertise to the Guernsey chapter of this year's guide.

The guide provides information on 34 jurisdictions and is useful for legal practitioners, trust company professionals and others involved in advising on private wealth matters.

The guide covers the following topics:

• Tax regimes
• Succession
• Trusts and foundations
• Family business planning
• Wealth disputes
• Fiduciaries
• Citizenship and residency
• Planning for minors
• Adults with disabilities and elders
• Planning for non-traditional families
• Charitable planning

The Chambers Global Practice Guides

The Chambers Global Practice Guides are a series of publications which provide up-to-date, expert legal commentary on the main legal practice areas from around the globe.  Focusing on the practical legal issues affecting businesses, the guides enable readers to compare legislation and procedure and read trend forecasts from legal experts from across key jursidictions.

About our International Trusts and Private Client team

Our trusts and private client experts combine non-contentious and contentious expertise. We offer a genuine 'one-firm' approach, enabling us to advise clients on the appropriate jurisdiction in which to establish and administer private wealth structures and to work together without jurisdictional boundaries, in our clients' interests.

In the 2023 Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide, Mourant is recognised once again as a leader in its field, maintaining a top tier Band 1 ranking in Offshore: Trusts in Jersey and a Band 2 ranking in Offshore: Trusts in Guernsey. A commentor in the guide describes our International Trusts and Private Client practice as a 'tightly knit, impressive team across the world'.