2021 eprivateclient Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 – Men
Adam Martel
Associate
RBC Wealth Management
As an associate RBC Wealth Management in Guernsey, Adam’s role sees him assist the firm’s fiduciary management with the provision of services to its global private clients. His client portfolio consists of trusts, companies and foundations. Adam has worked at RBC for over a decade now having studied at Guernsey Grammar School until 2010.
Alexander Hawkins
Associate
Mourant
Alexander is an associate in the private client and international trusts practice of Mourant in Guernsey. He provides advice to trust companies, international families and high-net-worth people about wealth structuring and asset protection. He also provides advice in relation to contentious and non-contentious trust and succession matters. He joined Mourant Ozannes in 2020, having previously practised as a solicitor in Australia. One nominator described Alexander as “a realistic, pragmatic and organised lawyer, who utilises his experience and hardworking attitude to assist clients and so as to develop a great network and rapport with them.”
Alexander Wardman
Senior associate
Stonehage Fleming
Alex joined Stonehage Fleming as a senior associate in the firm’s Jersey family office division in March 2020. He is now responsible for a number of international high-net-worth clients, working with their families and advisers around the globe, supported by colleagues from across the group. Alex is both a chartered tax adviser with the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), having qualified with PwC where he worked within the tax advisory team. Since joining Stonehage Fleming, Alex has achieved a distinction in the STEP Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients. He also has a degree in Banking and Finance having graduated from Loughborough University.
Blane Queripel
Director
PraxisIFM
Educated in Guernsey, Blane began his career with the States of Guernsey Income Tax Authority where he worked as a collections officer. In 2007 he joined PraxisIFM as a trust administrator responsible for a diverse portfolio of complex trust and company structures, primarily focused on real estate, for high net worth individuals. Blane was also included in the 2019 and 2020 eprivateclient Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 rankings. In his spare time he is a keen sportsman and represented Guernsey in several sports, including playing cricket for the island in World and European ICC Tournaments.
Blane Queripel, PraxisIFM
Chris Mourant
Senior trust manager
Fairway Group
Promoted to senior trust manager at the start of 2021, Chris carries out the day-to-day administration of the entities which form part of Emirates NBD Trust Company (Jersey) Limited, which is a trust company managed by Fairway Fund Services Limited. The portfolio consists largely of real estate in London and his duties include liaising with relationship managers in London and Dubai, lawyers, tax advisors and property managers. He continues to build relationships in other major finance centres and works closely with a number of family advisers, to ensure a bespoke service to each individual client. Chris has an honours degree in financial services and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) holding the Diploma in International Trust Management.
Chris Mourant, Fairway Group
Chris Ward
Assistant trust manager
Zedra
Chris was promoted in November 2020 and also recently completed his STEP Diploma. Chris has developed excellent relationships with his clients and often receives positive feedback. Chris is always willing to assist with projects, taking ownership of certain tasks and ensuring completion before deadline. Chris also volunteered to become a member of the Zedra Environment Committee and has worked at a number of National Trust events. Chris adapted very quickly to remote working in the Pandemic, ensuring continuity of service to his clients, whilst also being a great support to his colleagues during this period.
Dan Cavey
Assistant manager, family office services
Crestbridge
From a private wealth and family office background, Dan is now in his third year at Crestbridge. Since joining the firm’s family office team, Dan has been heavily involved with the ongoing set up of a highly transactional family office structure based in Jersey. He has led a number of very specific technical transactions, together with a team of advisors. Through this work, Daniel has gained a significant level of experience, both within the technical element of these transactions. Despite a relatively short period of time with the company, he has proven his ability to manage multiple transactions simultaneously, whilst also providing oversight to more junior members of the team to ensure their own development and key succession planning for the future. This has been essential in building and maintaining service levels within the team and specifically to his client portfolio.
Dan Cavey, Crestbridge
Dean Robson
Associate
Carey Olsen
Also named as a Channel Islands’ Top 35 Under 35 in 2020, Dean is an associate in Carey Olsen’s dispute resolution and litigation team in Jersey. Whilst practicing in England, he gained a wide variety of experience including disputes involving property, trusts, insolvency, fraud and directors' duties. His current practice includes all areas of civil litigation in Jersey with an emphasis on contentious trusts and commercial disputes. Dean is also developing his regulatory practice. Dean joined Carey Olsen in 2018 having trained and worked at several English law firms. He was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2014 and was subsequently called to the Bar in England & Wales (non-practising). Dean obtained an MA from the University of Oxford in Jurisprudence and a Diploma in Legal Practice (Distinction) from the College of Law.
Edward Claxton
Manager
ED Capital
Edward joined ED Capital in April 2018 and in his role as manager, Edward is in charge of a number of financial and reporting matters for the group and its clients. Prior to joining ED Capital, Edward was at PwC’s Jersey office. As a member of the audit team there he worked across a range of financial services sectors but in particular real estate and infrastructure structures. This saw Edward regularly travelling to mainland Europe to visit clients. Edward holds a BA in Philosophy and Politics from the University of East Anglia and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Outside of work Edward is a keen sportsman and is a trainer in the local CrossFit gym. Always up for a challenge Edward has competed in a number of local sports events including the round island swim and Jersey marathon. This year Edward is taking part in the BB White Collar boxing where he will be raising money for Jersey Hospice.
George Yates
Associate
Ogier
George specialises in non-contentious trust and fiduciary law and advises on a wide range of private client issues, including cross-border estate, succession and trust planning for a variety of professional trustees, family offices and high net worth individuals. Before joining Ogier in 2020, George spent over four years in London practising as a solicitor at Taylor Wessing where he specialised in advising UK and non-UK domiciled individuals on their global asset structuring and UK tax and trust planning. George studied History and Politics at Durham University before obtaining his Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practise Course qualification at BPP University in London. George is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Gregory Haddow
Associate
Collas Crill
Gregory is an Associate in the Guernsey trust and fiduciary department at Collas Crill. Gregory joined Collas Crill as a paralegal in September 2014 and started his training contract in September 2015. He qualified as a solicitor of England & Wales in September 2017. As part of his training contract, Gregory spent three months on secondment working with the private wealth team of a London based law firm. Prior to joining the firm, Gregory attended the University of Exeter where he completed a Masters Degree in Biology. He studied the GDL and LPC at BPP Law School in London. One nominator said: “Greg is someone I can always rely on to get the job done and meet every deadline. Not only is he efficient but he has knowledge and skills well beyond his years and I expect big things from in years to come. He is incredibly articulate and has a great way of getting everyone to see the bigger picture in everything he does.”
Gregory Haddow, Collas Crill
Hamish Crake
Tax manager
Deloitte
A previous Channel Islands’ Top 35 Under 35 in both 2018 and 2020, Hamish is a tax manager with over seven years’ experience at Deloitte in Jersey having joined the accounting and advisory firm in May 2014. Hamish has a masters’ degree in mechanical engineering from Edinburgh University and is experienced in giving corporate tax and international tax advice.
Jack Barlow
Assistant trust manager
Highvern
With 6 years’ experience in fiduciary services, and having attained the ICSA Diploma in offshore finance and administration, Jack is responsible for the day to day administration of a busy and diverse range of client structures. Jack has a particular interest in investments and administers structures which include real-estate funds, responsible investing and those that have investments with Sharia compliant requirements. Most recently Jack has been central to the completion of a structure to hold a new yacht. Outside of work however, Jack is known as the sportiest of the Highvern staff, willing to get stuck into anything so long as it’s outdoors and it’s competitive. Being a keen football player in particular he has supported local parish teams in training and also in participating.
Jack Barlow, Highvern
James Angus
Managing associate
Ogier
James is an experienced commercial disputes lawyer, specialising in contentious cross-border insolvency and restructuring. He is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary restructuring and corporate recovery team, and has particular expertise in complex and high value shareholder and creditor schemes of arrangement. He was named in eprivateclient’s UK's and Channel Islands' Top 35 Under 35 rankings (2019 and 2020), and maintains a busy practice as a courtroom advocate in all his areas of practice. One nominator said that James “is an exceptional advocate, and a leading individual within the Jersey dispute resolution team. He advises, and represents in court, many of the leading trust companies in Jersey and is considered a trusted adviser.”
James Channing
Assistant trust manager
HSBC Private Banking
James is an assistant trust manager at HSBC Private Banking in Jersey. He has worked at the global banking giant since 2014. Prior to that he worked at Nautilus Trust between 2010 and 2014.
James Dumont-Gale
Chief financial and operations officer
Invicta Wealth Solutions Limited
James joined Invicta in July 2017 as client accounts manager and was promoted to finance director in November 2019. James was promoted again in January 2021 and is now Invicta's chief financial and operations officer. James contributes in a number of areas of the business from internal management finance to assisting Invicta’s global client base with accounting and finance solutions. James originally qualified as an accountant at PwC, working in audit, before moving into the fiduciary industry. He is an ACA-qualified Chartered Accountant and has a Masters' Degree in corporate governance.
James Sheedy
Senior associate
Baker & Partners
Also named as an eprivateclient Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 in 2020, James is an English barrister and Jersey advocate. He is a senior associate with Baker & Partners with a particular focus on contentious and non-contentious trust work. James also advises in relation to a broad range of contentious matters including asset tracing as well as commercial and company litigation. James has an excellent reputation locally and internationally. James is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust & Estate Practitioners (ACTAPS), Contentious Trust Association (ConTrA) and the Chancery Bar Association. James is also a member of the Trust Law Working Committee of Jersey Finance that considers amendments to the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984.
Joshua Allaway
Assistant Manager
JTC Group
An experienced assistant manager with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry, Joshua joined JTC Group in November 2019 having previously worked at Osiris Corporate Solutions in Mauritius. One nominator said: “I have worked with Josh for over two years on various UHNW and complex international clients and he has been nothing but outstanding! He is responsive, proactive, knowledgeable and clients really warm to him - he is certainly one that I would tip as having a big future in the fiduciary offshore private wealth world.”
Josh Payne
Senior manager
BDO
Promoted to senior manager in the private wealth team at BDO Guernsey in November last year, Josh is responsible for managing and delivering assurance to a wide range of clients, primarily in the private wealth and commercial sectors. As part of his portfolio, Josh manages the assurance solution for one of Guernsey’s largest headquartered professional services groups leading a team of 15 qualified staff in the Channel Islands. Josh also manages the international assurance service for this group liaising with practitioners from a wide range of offshore and onshore locations globally.
Josh Payne, BDO
Matthew Davies
Associate
Ogier
Matthew is an associate in Ogier’s dispute resolution team in Jersey. He has a broad range of experience, including contentious trust matters, regulatory matters, insolvencies, and commercial and financial disputes. He has worked at Ogier since joining the firm in 2016 from Carey Olsen. One nominator said of Matthew: “He has demonstrated enormous potential in the way has acted on contentious private wealth matters, and will no doubt continue to impress as he gets more experience.”
Matthew Gilligan
Associate director
Saffery Champness
Matthew has over 15 years’ experience in the finance industry and joined Saffery Champness from a privately owned Louvre Trust where he managed complex and multi-jurisdictional family structures. Matthew works closely with our fiduciary teams assisting in providing bespoke offshore solutions for UHNWI’s across a range of jurisdictions. He also has a focus on business development for the firm, helping to expand its reach and unlock new market opportunities for the fiduciaries business. One nominator said: “Matthew is a shining light in the industry and is fulfilling the promise we all saw in him over the past 10 years as a future leader. He is technically adept, commercially astute, has a high EQ and a strong moral compass. As a result, from a young age he has been a trusted advisor and formidable negotiator on behalf of his clients.”
Matthew Gilligan, Saffery Champness
Matthew Westgarth-Smith
Managing director
HFL
A Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 for the third year running, Matthew is managing director at HFL, a family-owned business with over 30 years' experience in providing private client and fund services to a global client base. Managing director since January 2019, Matthew has worked at the firm since March 2017. Prior to that Matthew worked at PwC Channel Islands for two years and before that at Capco as a principal consultant.
Matthew Westgarth-Smith, HFL
Michael Le Page
Team leader
Oak Trust (Guernsey)
Michael has over 13 years’ experience in company and trust administration, having started his career at Rothschild Trust Guernsey Limited in 2008. Whilst at Rothschild, he also completed the STEP diploma and became a full member (TEP) in 2011. In early 2016, Michael joined Oak Trust (Guernsey) initially as a senior trust administrator and the following year was promoted to team leader. In 2018, Oak Trust became part of the Oak Group as well as the group’s headquarters, with its client base consequently expanding both geographically and by assets under administration. Transitioning from leading in a single office to working in a multi-office and multi-jurisdictional setting, Michael has continued to thrive at Oak where he is currently responsible for a team of three and is directly involved in administrating over 200 client entities. Outside of work, Michael is an avid runner, angler and (prior to Covid-19) traveller.
Michael Whitehead
Senior trust officer
IQ-EQ
Michael is a senior trust officer at IQ-EQ. He joined the global fiduciary services provider in August last year. Prior to that Michael spent five years at Sanne where he rose to the rank of senior administrator. Before that, Michael worked at Helm Trust where he spent just over a year.
Oliver Lindop
Senior associate
Carey Olsen
Featuring in the Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 for the fourth year running, Oliver is a senior associate and advocate in Carey Olsen's dispute resolution team specialising in regulatory law. Oliver joined Carey Olsen in 2014, having trained and qualified as a Solicitor of England & Wales with Clifford Chance. Previous work experience also includes a secondment to the Clifford Chance Singapore office and two years at Dyne Solicitors Limited, an environmental law boutique. One nominator said that “Oliver is a rising star in his specialist area with superb technical knowledge who is known to turn around client advice at short notice.”
Oliver Lindop, Carey Olsen
Paul Russell
Associate manager – private client services
JTC
Paul started his career at Minerva in 2014 as an assistant trust officer working in the private client team. Paul worked through a massive amount of change during the first two years working at Minerva. He was identified as an employee who had drive and ambition, and was quickly promoted to a trust officer, where he was quickly given a portfolio of clients. Paul was subsequently promoted to senior trust officer and his portfolio now includes some of Minerva/JTC’s (after JTC's acquisition in 2018) more complex structures. As a result of his dedication and passion, Paul has recently been promoted to associate manager within JTC’s private client services division, and oversees the development of the assistant trust officers in the department.
Paul Russell, JTC
Pierre Ali-Noor
Senior associate
Dickinson Gleeson
Pierre is an English-qualified solicitor and barrister (currently non-practising) with a broad advisory and commercial litigation practice, with particular emphasis trusts, fraud and investment disputes. Prior to joining Dickinson Gleeson, Pierre worked for a number of years in the London office of Herbert Smith Freehills before moving to Jersey in 2016 to join the litigation department of another leading Jersey law firm. Since then, Pierre has been involved in a number of high value and significant cases for both institutional clients and HNW/UHNW individuals. Pierre is a student member of the Jersey Law Society and a member of the Law Society of England & Wales and Gray’s Inn. Outside of work, Pierre is a passionate classic car enthusiast and also enjoys learning about oenology. He speaks passable French, reasonable German and Urdu, all of which he strives to improve whenever possible.
Pierre Ali-Noor, Dickinson Gleeson
Rhuaridh Watt
Senior manager
IQ-EQ
A senior manager since October 2019, Rhuaridh has worked at fiduciary services provider IQ-EQ in Guernsey since July 2017. Prior to that, Rhuaridh worked at Bourse Trust Company for two years following on from a stint as a paralegal at Mourant Ozannes. His strong technical expertise, coupled with his warm personality and humour and his drive and ambition, has seen him rise quickly through the ranks to manage a portfolio of highly complex structures, despite still being in his 20s. Rhuaridh was also key in the Guernsey office’s successful application for the STEP Platinum Employer Partner accreditation, the highest of three tiers awarded under the STEP Employer Partnership Programme.
Rhuaridh Watt, IQ-EQ
Rory Jones
Senior trust officer
Saffery Champness Registered Fiduciaries
Rory is a senior trust officer at Saffery Champness Registered Fiduciaries. Having joined Saffery Champness as a trainee trust administrator, through hard work and commitment Rory has progressed through the levels to his current position. Rory’s portfolio of clients is incredibly diverse and includes some prominent ultra-high net worth clients. Rory is responsible for managing large structures with multiple entities and regularly undertaking complex transactions at short notice. Outside his work commitments, Rory has always been very interested in sport, regularly playing local rugby when younger and in the more recent years, being a member of the Guernsey Amalgamated Boxing Club and winning some local boxing events against UK opponents.
Rupert Lee
Associate director
Deloitte
An associate director since 2019, Rupert works in Deloitte’s Jersey office. In this role, he oversees Deloitte’s growing Jersey corporate tax advisory and compliance engagements, including helping clients to comply with the new economic substance legislation. Before joining Deloitte, Rupert spent two years worked at KPMG in the Channel Islands in various tax related roles. Rupert also spent six years working in Jersey, undertaking corporate tax compliance and advisory engagements for a variety of banking and trust company clients.
Sam Matthews
Trust manager
Intertrust
A trust manager at Intertrust since March last year, Sam previously worked in the Moore Stephens Guernsey office for over two years, first as an assistant manager before quickly asserting himself as a leader, resulting in his promotion to trust manager in August 2018. Before joining Moore Stephens he was a senior relationship manager at Concept Private.
Sam Matthews, Intertrust
Scott King
Senior relationship manager
Accuro Fiduciary
Scott administers a number of complex and bespoke structures working closely with High Net Worth individuals, their families and advisors. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of these structures which typically have UK, Middle Eastern, North African or US connections. He is assisted by a team who provide administrative and support services including accounting, bookkeeping, compliance and risk services. Scott has worked in the finance industry since 2007 and began his career at RBC Wealth Management within its trust team and spent time within the private clients team at Intertrust ahead of joining Accuro in November 2018. One nominator said: “He has clearly demonstrated an ability to grow within and is a stand out member of the team and is considered by the directors and as future leader in their succession plans. Definitely one to watch.”
Scott King, Accuro Fiduciary
Sean Kenny
Senior manager
Baccata
Sean joined Baccata in August 2020 bringing with him over 10 years’ experience in the provision of private client services. Sean has developed an array of skills which have enabled him to manage a broad spectrum of clients ranging from HNW individuals, families who have built multigenerational wealth through well-established businesses, to privately owned trading companies which actively trade in goods as part of a global network. Sean works with his trusted intermediaries to deliver efficient structuring solutions to his client’s for succession planning and asset protection. Over the years, Sean has managed complex multi-jurisdictional structures, investment vehicles and cross border transactions for clients in various jurisdictions, predominantly in the East African and Middle Eastern regions. More recently, Sean has been appointed as the co-vice chairman of the Institute of Directors, Jersey – Corporate Governance Sub Committee.
Sean Kenny, Baccata
Tom Murray
Trust manager
Entrust
Based in Jersey, Tom recently joined Entrust having worked at Kleinwort Hambros for almost two years after he joined as a senior trust officer before being promoted to trust manager in April 2021. Tom has been working in the offshore financial services industry for eight years. He holds a STEP Diploma in International Trust Management as well as an ICSA Diploma in Offshore Financial Administration, which has enabled him to excel in the management and administration of various complex offshore structures for UHNW private clients.
Tom Murray, Entrust
Tomás Teixeira Machado
Senior tax manager
KPMG
Tomás is a senior tax manager in KPMG’s tax department with nine years’ experience in domestic and international tax matters, leading a significant portfolio. Tomás advises KPMG’s largest clients, including banks, trust and corporate service provides, fund managers, multinational groups, and various island governments across a number jurisdictions. His experience spans international tax planning and transactional tax matters regarding investments in the Channel Islands as well as managing the tax traits of cross-border transactions, corporate reorganisations and tax litigation/relationships with revenue authorities. Over the last couple of years Tomás has helped build KPMG’s tax transformation offering and he is currently the global business lead on the KPMG Economic Substance Tool, which was created to assist family offices, TCSPs, fund managers to deal with their economic substance requirements across several jurisdictions, including Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Cayman, BVI, Bahamas, Bermuda and Anguilla.
The 2021 eprivateclient Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35 is kindly sponsored by Cazenove Capital.
