Laura Smith
Associate* | Guernsey
Private Client and Trusts
Overview
Laura is an Associate in the Private Client and Trusts team. She joined Collas Crill in September 2021 on the trainee programme.
Experience
Prior to moving to the Private Client and Trusts team, Laura spent six months in each of the Financial Services and Regulatory and Real Estate teams, where she developed her experience with:
- preparing legal documentation such as legal opinions and listings paperwork;
- facilitating property transactions, with a particular focus on working with lenders on buy-to-let transactions;
- overseeing transactions such as migrations of companies into and out of Guernsey, and advising clients throughout the process; and
- contributing to high value banking and property transactions.
Laura recently completed a secondment in the Trusts and Estates Disputes team at Howard Kennedy - read more about her experience here.
Background
Laura studied at the University of Oxford, where she graduated with a 2:1 degree in Jurisprudence in 2020. Following this, she completed her LPC at the University of Law in 2021, achieving distinctions in all subjects.
She qualified as a Solicitor of England and Wales in 2023..
* admitted in England and Wales
Practical considerations for outgoing trustees
Whether at the request of beneficiaries, or through their own choice, trustees will often know when the time is right to pass the baton. This guide highlights a few practical considerations to which a trustee ought to have regard upon their retirement as...
Offshore trusts, onshore divorces
This article first appeared in issue 37 of ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce magazine. We have all seen the newspaper articles where a divorcing spouse (or in some cases a willing family member ) is accused of 'hiding' money in an offshore trust to avoid ...
Newly qualified lawyers in the CI
Collas Crill is proud to announce three newly qualified lawyers in the Channel Islands. Jessica Burgess and Laura Smith from Guernsey and Millie Thompson from Jersey have qualified as Solicitors of England and Wales. As a result all three lawyers have...
In April, Trainee Solicitor Laura Smith swapped the beaches of Guernsey for the city of London when she went on a three month secondment at Howard Kennedy. Upon returning to Collas Crill, we caught up with her to see how she found living 'onshore', what ...
The current position in England and Wales The current prevailing opinion is that arbitration is not readily available as a tool in trusts disputes under the law of England and Wales. Indeed this has explicitly been stated to be the case by the Law Commis...
2022 Collas Crill Moot launches
Sixth form students from around Guernsey are being invited to take part the 15th annual Collas Crill Moot. The Moot provides students from Grammar School, Blanchelande College, Elizabeth College and the Ladies' College with the chance to participate in ...
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