Walkers’ Private Capital & Trusts Group in the Channel Islands has seen promotions in the Chambers HNW directory, which praises the team for its ‘excellent service to clients’ and their ‘great knowledge of trust law’.
The Guernsey team has been promoted up a band, and the individual rankings see promotions for Guernsey Partner Rupert Morris and Group Partner Rajah Abusrewil, along with fresh rankings for Partner Nigel Sanders and Senior Counsel Sevyn Kalsi in Jersey.
In all, the team now has five lawyers ranked across the Jersey and Guernsey offices, with independent referees reporting that the Jersey team is “very approachable and easy to deal with,” and that the Guernsey team “have always been able to provide practical, commercial advice within the time frames requested, often having to juggle complex tax issues in other jurisdictions.”
Rupert Morris, who leads the Guernsey Private Capital & Trusts team, said: “We are delighted to see this recognition for our team after a year that has had its challenges, and particularly pleased to see a consistent pattern in the client quotes about our very high standards of client service, which we have worked very hard to maintain and improve during the pandemic.”
Partner Robert Dobbyn, who leads the Jersey team, added: “We have a very strong and growing team in the Channel Islands, and the recognition from Chambers reflects a lot of very hard work by some very talented and dedicated people in our offices.”
Individual client feedback cited by Chambers include the following:
- Rajah Abusrewil: “Her advice is client-focused and practical, with a clear emphasis on solving the problems before the client realises that they exist. She’s a delight to work with.”
- Robert Dobbyn: “He is technically excellent, he is commercial and he always comes up with creative and imaginative solutions to problems.”
- Sevyn Kalsi: “Very attuned to the client’s needs – he is very focused on getting the right solution for the client.”
- Rupert Morris: “Rupert is technically excellent and able to analyse the most complex of situations and distil it into intelligible chunks.”
- Nigel Sanders: “Nigel is absolutely phenomenal.”
