Anthony Partridge
Anthony Partridge
Partner | Ogier
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Probate
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Cayman Islands
Short Biography
Anthony Partridge, TEP is a partner in Ogier's Private Wealth practice and specialises in all aspects of non-contentious and semi-contentious private trust and estate matters, wealth structuring for high-net-worth individuals, institutional trustees and family offices together with all related regulatory work and cross-border succession matters. He has particular expertise in the use of Cayman foundation companies and obtaining grants of probate, letters of administration and resealing foreign grants in the Cayman Islands Court. He is recognised as a leading trust and estate advisor and is recommended by Chambers Global, Chambers and Partners HNW, Private Client Global Elite, Latin Lawyer, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal and the Citywealth Leaders List. Industry commentators note that Anthony is, "A technically excellent lawyer coupled with a unique ability to interface with clients on a commercial level." (Chambers High Net Worth, 2023). Anthony is the current Chair of the STEP Cayman Islands Branch.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Seven, Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Always believe in yourself
What was your first job?
Working in a department store
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Potato Factory Trilogy by Bryce Courtenay
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Increase in transfer of inter-generational wealth in the Middle East.
Andrew De La Rosa
Andrew De La Rosa
Barrister and Attorney-at-Law | ICT Chambers
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Contentious
Fiduciary
Trusts: Contentious
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.
Andrea Dunsby
Andrea Dunsby
Managing Partner | Circumference Legal (UK) Ltd
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Commercial Litigation
Estates: Contentious
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
London, United Kingdom
Short Biography
Andrea is an experienced private client lawyer primarily advising clients on dispute resolution issues. She also has expertise in insolvency, restructuring and fund disputes. She is an English qualified solicitor who has worked in Australia and was admitted in the Cayman Islands. Having spent a large proportion of her career offshore, she handles international litigation regularly and is used to coordinating teams of lawyers and other experts across jurisdictions. She is a long standing member of STEP.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Hide in Piccadilly or The Brasserie in the Cayman Islands
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
If you have nothing good to say, then say nothing at all.
What was your first job?
Newspaper delivery round
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
It's hard to choose as I read novels voraciously and all sorts of genres. In the last year, I enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
I think we will see more trusts with distressed assets which is likely to lead to more claims against trustees.
Adil Mohamedbhai
Adil Mohamedbhai
Barrister | Serle Court
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Civil Fraud
Commercial Litigation
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
I have a broad commercial chancery practice. I have particular expertise in high-value, multi-jurisdictional offshore, trust, private client, civil fraud and commercial disputes. I act both as sole counsel and junior counsel as part of a team of barristers. In addition to regular appearances in both the Chancery Division and the Commercial Court, I have appeared in the Court of Appeal, the UK Supreme Court and the Privy Council. I also have substantial experience appearing in, or assisting with, cases in other jurisdictions, including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Jersey, Guernsey, the Bahamas and Mauritius. Prior to coming to the Bar, I qualified as a solicitor at Freshfields, where I was involved in a broad range of transactional and contentious work.
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