Pierre Ali-Noor

Senior Associate

Pierre Ali-Noor is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's litigation team in Jersey. He specialises in the court-related aspects of trusts and private wealth practice and is engaged in a broad spectrum of private wealth work covering advisory, administrative and contentious trusts matters.

He is regularly involved in applications by trustees for administrative directions, applications by trustees and beneficiaries for relief on grounds of mistake, applications for orders approving compromises of disputes on behalf of minor, unborn and unascertained beneficiaries and applications for rectification of trust instruments. In addition, he practises all other aspects of Jersey commercial litigation.

Pierre is ranked as a Rising Star in Dispute Resolution in Jersey by the Legal 500 UK. The legal directories say that Pierre “works extremely hard and with technical precision. One to watch for the future” and “has a great touch in client communication” (Legal 500 UK 2022) and is "...hard working, charming and diligent. He really gets into the meat of a case" (Legal 500 UK 2021), "...as smart as they come" and "a name to note" (Legal 500 UK 2019). Pierre has been listed as a "Rising Leader" in the Private Client Global Elite directory in 2018, 2019, 2020-21 and 2023 and has been ranked as one of ePrivateClient's "Top 35 Under 35" in the UK/UK Crown Dependencies in 2017 and 2022, and in the Channel Islands in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Career

Pierre was called to the Bar of England & Wales by Gray's Inn in 2011 and subsequently trained and requalified as an English solicitor with Herbert Smith Freehills in London. Pierre moved to Jersey in 2016 and became an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey in 2021.

Pierre is an alumnus of University College London (LLB Hons), Kaplan Law School, BPP Law School and Harrow School.