Andrew Laws

Andrew’s practice focuses on acting for financial institutions from both Guernsey and other jurisdictions. He has extensive experience of trusts and fiduciary matters and has appeared in many reported decisions. His practice, both contentious and non-contentious, extends to insolvency, employment, property and regulatory matters. He has given expert evidence of matters of Guernsey law in a number of foreign jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and the United States.

Recent Highlights

• Acting for a Guernsey trustee coordinating complex proceedings in multiple jurisdictions and working with foreign lawyers (on going)
• Acting for a trustee in successfully obtaining Court approval of an intended course of action despite vigorous objection by a beneficiary (reported as A and R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 — Judgment 25/2016)
• Successfully applying to the Royal Court to rectify a Will involving complex issues of foreign law. (Judgment 24/2017)
• Acting as representative of minors and unborn beneficiaries in a complex application by trustees (on going)
• Advising a local fiduciary services business in regulatory matters with the GFSC
• Acting in the ongoing sale of a local fiduciary company
• Acting on the property aspects of a large food retail business (2024)
• Acting for a high net worth local family in restructuring their affairs (2024)