Andrew Bayles
Andrew Bayles
Director - General Counsel | SwissIndependent Trustees SA
JURISDICTION
Switzerland, England and Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, British Virgin Islands, Malta, Cyprus, New Zealand
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Switzerland
Short Biography
Andrew Bayles, a lawyer and professional Trustee in Switzerland, acts for global families, business owners, family offices, and professionals. His extensive expertise encompasses trust law, corporate, commercial and tax. Andrew's role at SwissIndependent Trustees SA highlights his dedication to serving clients with cross-border needs. He possesses a strong understanding of complex legal matters related to family offices, trusts, and trusteeship.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Any restaurant where there is a decent wine list, or, even better, where they let you take your own!
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Never make desicions under duress. Sleep on it if you can.
What was your first job?
Ball boy at Rosslyn Park RFC.
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Billionaire's Vinegar.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
I hope to see technology continue to disrupt our business to the benefit of our families.
Andreas Kistler
Andreas Kistler
Partner | Carey Olsen
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Commercial Litigation
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
Jersey
Short Biography
Andreas Kistler is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth and litigation teams in Jersey. He specialises in the court-related aspects of the trusts and private wealth team's practice and has acted in numerous cases involving allegations of breach of trust, fraud and professional negligence, both for plaintiffs and defendants. He also has experience of mediation of such disputes.He is also regularly involved in applications by trustees for administrative directions, applications by trustees and beneficiaries for relief on grounds of mistake, applications for orders approving compromises of disputes on behalf of minor, unborn and unascertained beneficiaries and applications for rectification of trust instruments. In addition, he practises all other aspects of Jersey commercial litigation, including disputes concerning investment funds and Jersey companies, contractual disputes and Jersey intellectual property rights.
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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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What is the book you recommend to everyone?
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Alexa Saunders
Alexa Saunders
Partner | Carey Olsen
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Jersey
Short Biography
Alexa is head of the trusts and private wealth group in Jersey and has a broad non-contentious trust practice. Alexa regularly advises in connection with private family trusts, employee benefit trusts and pension trusts, including on the establishment of new trust structures, drafting trust and ancillary instruments and advising in connection with the ongoing administration and restructuring of complex trust structures. Alexa also advises in connection with philanthropic and charitable structures as well as foundations.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
The Green Island in Jersey - it is right by the sea and hard to beat on a sunny day.
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
To be yourself and know who you are.
What was your first job?
Filing (in a law firm).
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
I try not to as it is so depressing but I can't help myself - The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
It has been a busy few years for private client lawyers and I think the current global political and economic climate means that is likely to continue.