Carey Olsen named best offshore law firm by eprivateclient

Winners of the inaugural awards, which are focused exclusively on recognising the outstanding achievements of firms across the UK and offshore legal, tax, fiduciary and advisory professions over the past year, were announced during a virtual ceremony yesterday evening.

According to the eprivateclient judging panel, Carey Olsen stood out as a result of the firm's 'ability to provide clients with with a full service legal offering, its excellent charitable work, its strong ESG credentials and development opportunities and initiatives available to the next generation of both clients and offshore lawyers'.

The award win follows in the footsteps of Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth practice maintaining its Tier 1 listing in the 2021 edition of eprivateclient's Top Offshore Law Firm rankings, and its back-to-back success in the offshore law firm category at both the Chambers High Net Worth Awards and WealthBriefing European Awards.

Commenting on the latest award success for Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team, Jersey partner Keith Dixon said: "We're honoured to have been named the leading offshore law firm for private client work by such a well-established and respected publication. Our global trusts and private wealth practice has had another standout year despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, which is testament to the calibre of the legal teams and staff at Carey Olsen. As always, we are very grateful to our clients without whom none of this would be possible."

Carey Olsen has one of the largest trusts and private wealth teams in the offshore world with more than 50 partners and associates providing advice on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey to local and international clients and their advisers.