Andrew De La Rosa

Office Location

Cayman Islands

Short Biography

Andrew is a recognised specialist in the trust, estate, corporate, collective investment scheme, partnership and related fiduciary spheres. He acts as both adviser and advocate and has extensive experience of all of the principal common law-based international financial centres and the civil and Islamic law jurisdictions with which they interact. He has acted as counsel in many of the most significant trust and estate disputes and structuring exercises of recent years. Professional clients have described him as “charming and easygoing but with a deadly eye and known to get results” and "awesome and absolutely compelling."

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

La Colombetta, Como, Italy

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Knowledge is the result of building on what one already knows.

What was your first job?

Retail Clerk

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Snell's Equity

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

Significant increases in (1) major trust creation and restructuring exercises as economic conditions develop globally, and (2) lifetime succession planning in developing regional wealth creation centres.