Our teams across Guernsey and Jeresy have maintained their strong positions in the Legal 500 UK Guide 2027. A number of lawyers have been promoted in the individual rankings.
Practice areas
- Real estate - Guernsey and Jersey Tier 1
- Regulatory and white collar crime - Guernsey Tier 1, Jersey Tier 2
- Banking and finance - Guernsey and Jersey Tier 2
- Dispute resolution - Guernsey and Jersey Tier 2
- Private client, trusts and tax - Guernsey and Jersey Tier 2
- Capital markets - Guernsey Tier 2
- Corporate M&A - Guernsey Tier 2
- Corporate and commercial - Jersey Tier 3
- Investment funds - Guernsey Tier 3
Individuals
Hall of fame
- Christian Hay
- Jason Green
- Nuno Santos-Costa
- Damian James
Leading partners
- Angela Calnan
- Ben Havard
- Michael Adkins
- Paul Nettleship
- Simon Heggs (promoted)
- Wayne Atkinson (promoted)
- Martin Le Boutillier
- Pamela Doherty
- Victoria Yates
- Matt Gilley (promoted)
Next gen partners
- Ben Le Page (promoted)
- Elena Gogh
- Lynne Calder (promoted)
- James Sheedy
Client testimonials
Real estate
The team is responsive and solution-focused, providing detailed but practical advice. The depth of expertise was crucial when they provided us with advice regarding a transaction in a new legal jurisdiction, which gave us the confidence to proceed and a workable understanding of the legal framework.
Multidisciplined. Experienced in major transactions. Relationships with competing lawyers can help get deals done.
Provides efficient, solution-focused advice and legal work for our lending transactions. They are knowledgeable in the market and will proactively raise issues and improvements. They are approachable and also happy to help you understand the rationale for a question or issue, helping you improve the underlying relationship and experience for the client.
High-quality partners and quality associates.
Regulatory and white collar crime
We have had a great experience working with Collas Crill on sanctions matters with offshore aspects. They delivered excellent results for the client and were exceptionally efficient and responsive.
Very approachable, knowledgeable in their expertise, and offer training. would not hesitate to recommend them clearly a very strong team.
First-rate, both in terms of substantive knowledge and experience.
Banking and finance
Attentive and responsive to the needs of our business. They understand us, and that helps enormously in structuring deals.
The partners in this practice lead from the front. The Collas Crill partners engage and deal with all elements of our transactions. They are fully engaged, fully visible, and always available to steer the transaction to the outcome we need.
Responsive, technically solid, commercial approach. Easy to deal with. Do not sweat the small stuff. Cost effective.
Attentive, aware of the issues, solutions focused.
Dispute resolution
Superb team. Expert across all areas of Guernsey Dispute Resolution and a real pleasure to work with. One of my go-tos for Guernsey disputes matters.
Wide pool of talent, especially in Dispute Revolution. Very capable, talented, and insightful.
Superb team with real expertise and experience in trusts work, dealing with cases at the highest level.
Compared with other firms, the team feels highly experienced but also accessible and pragmatic.
A strong senior team allows the firm to compete against much larger firms in the offshore space.
Private client, trust and tax
A fantastic team. Technically excellent and great to work with. I would not hesitate to introduce clients to them.
The team provided timely and practical advice in a cross-border matter.
The team is very approachable, pragmatic, and collaborative.
Capital markets
Overall, they stand out for being commercially astute, dependable, and easy to work with — qualities that, in practice, make a meaningful difference to the outcome of a transaction.
Great service and expertise. People are personable and good to deal with.
What distinguishes this team is not just technical ability, but the way they think and operate as a unit. They combine strong legal judgment with a commercial mindset, which means their advice is always grounded in the realities of the deal rather than abstract legal theory. There is a clear sense of ownership and accountability, which gives clients confidence that matters are being handled with care and attention at every stage.
Collas Crill has a good working relationship with and knowledge of TISE, and that greatly helped in facilitating our listing process.
Corporate M&A
Collas Crill consistently demonstrates a very high quality of work and extensive knowledge across the firm. They are very reasonably priced and transparent with their billing. Nothing is ever too much trouble, and they make themselves available to fully discuss any issues or queries.
