Bernadette Carey

Office Location

Cayman Islands

Short Biography

Bernadette is the head of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands trusts and private wealth team. She has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters including the creation of dynastic structures; the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts; and probate and testamentary issues. She is also an experienced litigator in the private client space, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust disputes, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes. Bernadette advises high net worth individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, executors, wealth managers, institutional clients, and onshore legal teams on all aspects of trusts and estates law in the Cayman Islands. She is a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and a STEP member.

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