Helena Lavin
Senior Counsel
Guernsey
Senior Counsel
Guernsey
She is a Guernsey Advocate and has been practising in Guernsey for around eleven years– prior to that she worked in the Middle East, and with a leading national law firm in England.
Helena has broad expertise acting for and advising predominantly international clients in disputes often with a multi-jurisdictional element. She is a founder of the Channel Islands Chapter of the International Womens Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and she has a particular interest in contentious insolvency and trust matters. Her cases have involved acting for trustees beneficiaries and other parties to trusts in seeking disclosure from trustees, obtaining injunctive relief pertaining to trust assets, applications to vary trusts and challenged Beddoe applications.
She also has extensive experience acting for insolvency office holders, directors, shareholders and other stakeholders and corporate entities in a wide range of disputes covering breach of fiduciary duties, professional negligence, enforcement of judgments and contested winding up proceedings.
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2021 Legal 500 - Dispute Resolution - Recognised Lawyer - "A very hard working senior associate who is very knowledgeable in the dispute resolution space. Relates to her clients and is approachable."
2020 Legal 500 - Dispute Resolution - Recognised Lawyer
Citiwealth Future Leaders Awards 2018, Lawyer of the Year IFC Senior Associate - shortlisted
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