Carey Olsen has been recognised as Offshore Firm of the Year by The Lawyer Magazine.

Held on 25 June at the Grosvenor House Hotel London and hosted this year by Joanna Lumley, the Lawyer Awards is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates excellence in the legal profession across private practice, the public sector, commerce and industry.

Selected by The Lawyer’s editorial team from a high number of entries, Carey Olsen was presented with this impressive award for acting for the winning parties in a ground-breaking decision issued by Guernsey’s Royal Court. This landmark case involved UK non-domiciliary, wealthy entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz and one of the offshore trust structures in which his assets are held (“the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust”).

Carey Olsen represented Grant Thornton’s Stephen Akers and Mark McDonald who had been appointed as joint liquidators of some of the companies involved in the Tchenguiz structure in relation to substantial loan arrangements which had been created and are now judgment creditors for over £183 million, with interest accruing at the rate of over £40,000 per day.

The court’s judgment broke new ground in the Channel Islands which led to Carey Olsen persuading the Royal Court to grant what is believed to be the world’s first-ever order subrogating the creditors to the trustees’ rights in the trust assets and an order appointing receivers over the dynamic trust assets (with the exception of one UK property) pending determination of any appeal.

The Lawyer award recognises that Carey Olsen’s market-leading trust litigation team specialises in this highly complex area of law and is able to provide clients with “QC” levels of advocacy and “magic circle” levels of case management services.

One of The Lawyer Awards judges commented the firm is looking “very impressive – the Tchenguiz case really was landmark and makes their submission surpass that of their peers”.

Carey Olsen managing partner John Greenfield, who led the Tchenguiz litigation team, said: “This case was complex and extremely interesting to work on. The Lawyer award serves to recognise our talented and dedicated litigation group across the firm; it cements our position as a leading offshore law firm.”

Photo caption: [L-R] Senior partner at Slaughter & May, Chris Saul, who presented the trophy on behalf of The Lawyer, Carey Olsen partners Emma Russell, Ben Morgan, Guy Coltman, Robert Milner and Joanna Lumley, who hosted the awards ceremony.

Issued by Sophie Morgan, Orchard PR, [email protected]. 01481 240600

About The Lawyer

Launched in 1981, The Lawyer magazine is a respected publication servicing the legal sector. Their annual awards were launched in 2002 and celebrate excellence within private practice, the public sector, commerce and industry and the Bar within the legal profession.

About Carey Olsen

Carey Olsen is a market leading offshore law firm. We deliver exceptional services to our clients from the key offshore financial centres of the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. We also have an established presence in Cape Town and the City of London.

We are consistently the firm of choice for our clients and for advisers who refer work to our jurisdictions. Our firm offers a partner-led service. We employ 300 people and our 42 partners head up a total complement of 185 fee earners.

We provide legal services in relation to all areas of corporate and finance law, investment funds and dispute resolution as well as to private clients.

We work with an extensive range of clients including directors, global financial institutions, investment funds, private equity houses, corporations, trustees, governments and private individuals including entrepreneurs.

We also routinely work with leading legal advisers elsewhere on international transactions and cases involving our jurisdictions.

We have been awarded a number of industry accolades including Offshore Law Firm of the Year 2014 by the Lawyer Magazine.

For further information about Carey Olsen visit www.careyolsen.com or email [email protected]