Dionne is a highly skilled litigator with more than 25 years' experience, offering an impressive range of private client expertise to the firm's high-net-worth client base.
Experience
Dionne's work focuses on:
- negotiating pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements on behalf of clients wishing to protect pre-marital assets, and advising on the protection of family wealth;
- advising on use of trusts to preserve wealth for children from previous relationships as well as current partners and future generations focusing also on smooth transition of assets;
- advising professional and lay attorneys on, and implementing efficient management of donor’s wealth;
- acting for professional and lay executors in the administration of estates with contentious, commercial and multi-jurisdictional elements;
- contentious probate matters;
- complex and cross border family matters, advising and representing clients in high-value divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving on and offshore assets; child law matters including complex relocation cases and residency matters;
- civil disputes and corporate disputes including asset tracing and enforcement of foreign judgments. Dionne was involved in the leading case in Jersey on establishing the prescription period for Voisinage, a customary law doctrine;
- corporate disputes;
- cases involving capacity issues including court appointments of Case Delegate (acting to manage the financial affairs of an individual lacking capacity - broadly speaking, the Jersey equivalent to Guardianships) in two particularly complex cases and cases involving the appointment of Tuteur to deal with a minor's property;
- criminal litigation, having appeared in a large number of high profile cases, including the first ever prosecution for money laundering in Jersey which went to the Privy Council for determination.
