Francesca Perselli

Counsel

Overview

Overview

I am Counsel in our Guernsey Litigation practice with broad experience of litigation. I practice in trusts, insolvency, cross-border commercial disputes and intellectual property.

Prior to joining Mourant I practised as a barrister in London at Maitland Chambers (from 2019 to 2023) and New Square Chambers, where I also did my pupillage (2012 to 2019). I have extensive advocacy experience, having regularly appeared as trial counsel and at appellate level in the English courts.

I have maintained a professional connection with Guernsey since 2015, when I worked at Mourant on secondment. I also undertook secondments with other firms in Guernsey in 2017 and Jersey in 2019, gaining a thorough working knowledge of Channel Islands litigation.

My practice at the Bar typically involved disputes of significant value (£1 million and above). Many had international elements in a number of on- and offshore jurisdictions, including Cayman, Gibraltar, Switzerland, Nigeria and Italy.

Having studied Chemistry, I am also particularly suited to cases of a technical, numerical or scientific nature.

Work Highlights

Trusts dispute concerning choice of law, forum non conveniens in sham trust claims, civil law recognition of trusts under the Hague Convention, injunction alleging conflict of interest (Judgment 47/2015).

Investec Trust v Glenalla Properties (Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust) litigation relating to the ambit of Art 32 Jersey Trusts Law (liability of a trustee to third parties).

Memberships

Bar Council of England and Wales, elected member: Legal Services; Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility; Young Barristers; and International Committees (2018-2023)

ConTrA (Contentious Trusts Association)

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