Christine is a Jersey Advocate (sworn in 2010) with over 15 years of legal experience. She has worked in Jersey since 2007 and specialises in banking and finance work.
Christine is experienced in advising lenders, borrowers and trustees on a broad range of finance related matters and has worked on numerous complex, high value and multi-jurisdictional transactions. She has acted for major financial institutions and for corporate borrowers, including listed entities. She advises on financing, security, enforcement and restructuring in relation to entities including Jersey property unit trusts, limited partnerships, special purpose vehicles and joint ventures.
Prior to joining Collas Crill in September 2018, Christine spent eight years in Carey Olsen's Jersey banking team and two years as a Legal Adviser in the Legislative Projects Team at the Jersey Law Officers' Department. In 2013 Christine trained as a legal evaluator for Moneyval and she has participated in evaluations of anti-money laundering measures both on and off-site.
Before moving to Jersey, Christine firstly trained and qualified as a Scottish solicitor with Shepherd+ Wedderburn (admitted 2005) and then practised at DLA Piper
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Banking & Finance
Banks today face an ever increasing raft of challenges, both regulatory and commercial, as well as competition for deals from non-bank lenders and alternative funders. We provide our banking client...
Funds Finance
Fund financing is a specialist area that requires a strong understanding of the specific risks involved in lending to funds and the way such borrowers are structured. We know that the underlying re...
Debt Restructuring, Enforcement & Insolvency
Knowing what to do and when to act when things go wrong is a key part of our service to our banking/lender clients. We have been involved in restructurings of all sizes and across jurisdictions and...
Islamic Finance
Demand for legal professionals with a working knowledge and understanding of Shariah and its concepts has never been greater as the number of number of financial institutions with an Islamic finance f...
Corporate & Commercial
With a depth of multi-jurisdictional experience our offices in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Jersey, London and Singapore, we ensure that advice is provided in the context of other key global offshore centre...
A Jersey Property Unit Trust (JPUT) is a type of Jersey trust which is usually used as a vehicle to hold UK commercial real estate assets. A JPUT is ...
Jersey's Economic Substance Law
On the 6th of December, The States of Jersey passed the Draft Taxation (Companies – Economic Substance) (Jersey) Law 201- (Draft Law). The Draft Law, ...
Collas Crill is pleased to announce that it has further strengthened its corporate, finance and funds team in Jersey with the addition of Christine Fo...
