Carey Olsen has been named Best Private Client Legal Team at the Wealth Adviser Awards 2014.
Wealth Adviser’s 13,000 subscribers around the world vote for service providers in private banks, independent financial advice, family offices, wealth management, fund management, taxation, trust, legal, accounting and technology firms.
Carey Olsen’s sizeable international private client team of 32 lawyers includes seven partners and provides trust and estate planning advice across its Guernsey, Jersey, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands offices. The firm's legal services include advice on wealth management, taxation, asset protection, family law, property acquisitions, residency advice and trusts and fiduciary work. In the past year the team received instructions from a wide variety of global jurisdictions including China, the Middle East, Russia, Africa and Turkey.
The firm also won Wealth Adviser’s Best Offshore Law Firm in 2013.
Carey Olsen partner, Konrad Friedlaender, said: “Winning Best Private Client Legal Team is a great achievement for our team and reinforces Carey Olsen’s reputation for delivering the highest quality private client legal services across our jurisdictions. This award is a significant endorsement of our expertise across the BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey and reflects our expanding global offering in this sector.”
The Wealth Adviser Awards were established in 2013 to bring together the leaders in global wealth management and this year showcases wealth managers, advisers and service providers who are successfully realigning their business models to deal with the challenges of regulation, deregulation and to profit from consolidation, strong investment models and significant investment in technology.