Chambers Global Practice Guides – Private Wealth 2024

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 2024.

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

The guide provides information on over 30 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
• Same-sex marriages and domestic partnerships
• 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 jurisdictions.

About our International Trust and Private Client team

Our trusts and private client experts combine contentious and non-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 2024 Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide, Mourant is recognised once again as a leader in its field, maintaining a Band 1 ranking in Offshore: Trusts in Jersey.

Also in the 2024 guide, the Mourant Guernsey practice achieved a Band 2 ranking, alongside seven Mourant lawyers from across the firm’s Guernsey, Jersey and London offices who were individually recognised for their expertise in this field.