Jerry Jamieson

I advise individuals and corporations on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters. My specialism is advising settlors, beneficiaries, and trustees on all matters relating to contentious trusts.

My primary job to help clients avoid litigation altogether. Where this is not possible, I help clients to progress and resolve their disputes as expeditiously possible.

I specialise in advising on issues relating to trusts. This encompasses a variety of matters, ranging from non-contentious trust restructuring advice, to complex, lengthy, and multi-jurisdictional trust litigation. I have acted on claims in the English courts, together with a host of offshore jurisdictions including Guernsey, Bermuda, and the Isle of Man.

Beyond trusts, I have experience acting in relation to director disqualification claims (including in respect of charities), bankruptcy actions, commercial restructuring and transactions, and a wide array of estate planning solutions.

Outside of the office, I play a lot of very amateur cricket, and am similarly enthusiastic about chess and long distance walking.

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Acted for clients representing an ultra-high net worth family in relation to simultaneous litigation in six jurisdictions ranging from Nigeria to New York. The crux of the issue related to the sale of a multi-billion-dollar trading business, and the allocation of those proceeds within a trust structure.
Re Keeping Kids Company, Official Receiver v Batmanghelidjh and others [2021] EWHC 175 (Ch) (12 February 2021): Successfully acted for a former trustee of the charity Kids Company, whom the Official Receiver had sought and failed to disqualify from acting as a director.
Acted for one branch of a family owning multinational businesses with market cap in excess of $3bn, as well as trustees of Bermudian trusts set up for their benefit, as to the possibility, negotiation, and implementation of an exit from the existing complex family corporate and trust structure.
D v A, B & C & Ors [2020] GCA 065 in the Court of Appeal of Guernsey dealing with the rules on construction of a trust deed, in particular whether a beneficiary’s power to appoint was a personal or fiduciary power.