Collas Crill is finalist in STEP private client awards

Collas Crill's fiduciary team has been shortlisted in the International Legal Team of the Year category of the STEP Private Client Awards 2012 / 2013.

The awards highlight excellence among private client lawyers, bankers, trust managers and financial advisors.

International Legal Team of the Year is awarded to a team located outside the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada and which focuses on cross-border or international work.

Collas Crill is one of five finalists in the International category shortlisted by the awards judges and panel of experts representing internationally renowned lawyers, accountants, barristers and trust companies. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on 19 September 2012 in London.

Collas Crill partner Marcus Hinkley said: "I am very pleased with our rapid business growth demonstrating the importance of strategic planning. We know who we are and the services we can deliver and this is reflected in our short-listing in these prestigious awards."

Collas Crill's fiduciary team cross contentious, non-contentious and semi-contentious trusts work. It is a pan-Channel Island team, with additional members in Singapore, where the firm is the first and only Channel islands law firm to open.

Mr Hinkley added: "The team boasts one of the most widely and internationally experienced fiduciary teams in the Channel Islands and has unrivalled expertise in corporate trust advice, establishing private trust company structures and advising on Sharia law compliant structures."

The contentious team has been actively involved in many of the headline trust cases in the Channel Islands in recent years, notably advising the first defendant in the Alhamrani trust case and acting for the administrators on the major cross-border case of Landsbanki Guernsey.