Admitted in:
Jersey
England and Wales (not practising)

Qualifications:

MA (Cantab) in History from Cambridge University

TEP qualification from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

2020 Chambers and Partners UK Guide - Notable Practitioner:
"He is very good technically and covers all the details meticulously."

Chambers HNW Guide 2019 – Ranked Lawyer
"Provides advice on a broad spectrum of non-contentious trust and foundation matters. "He is very good and very thorough and really switched-on. He is methodical in the way he deals with things and is a good person to deal with for our HNW clients," reports an international lawyer."

2019 Chambers and Partners Global Guide - Notable Practitioner (Trusts) - Robert Dobbyn is "a fount of knowledge when it comes to foundation law," comments a source. One client says: "He is great to work with and his technical knowledge is very good indeed."

2018 Legal 500 - (Private Client, Trusts and Tax) Next Generation Lawyer - Jersey

"Robert Dobbyn is described as ‘a definite rising star in Jersey’; ‘his advice is always appropriate and exactly what clients are looking for’."

2018 Legal 500 - (Banking and Finance) Recommended Lawyer - Jersey 

"Robert Dobbyn praised for his ‘excellent attention to detail and great skill in transactions' "

Chambers HNW Guide 2018 – Ranked Lawyer
“’A good, solid trust lawyer’, 'his willingness to assist is tantamount to brilliant.' 'He is great to work with and his technical knowledge is very good indeed.’ 'I like his documentation and his approach, and his understanding of the problem is very good'."

2017 Who's Who Legal: Private Client - Recommended Lawyer

2017 Legal 500 - (Private Client, Trusts and Tax) – Next Generation Lawyer - Jersey
"Robert Dobbyn is ‘a fantastic lawyer because he genuinely loves the area in which he practices – he is familiar with all the recent developments and takes great pride in his documents’."

Private Client Practitioner Top 35 Under 35 three years running

STEP Excellence Award, Administration of Trusts paper 2011 (for highest mark in the UK)

Member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Law Society of Jersey.

Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

MEMO

• (Global) Foundation Regimes in the Abu Dhabi Global Market, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey - The 2017/2018 financial year saw the Cayman Islands and Abu Dhabi Global Market (the "ADGM") join va...
  
• (Jersey) The Uses of Jersey Trusts - The purpose of this briefing note is to set out some of the benefits of Jersey trusts. Primarily, th...
  
• (Jersey) The Uses of Jersey Foundations - The purpose of this briefing note is to set out some of the benefits of Jersey foundations. A Jersey...
  
• (Jersey) Private Trust Companies - A settlor, when establishing a trust, will typically draw from the following categories of potential...
  
• (Global) Foundation Regimes in the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and United Arab Emirates - The 2017/2018 financial year saw the Cayman Islands and Abu Dhabi Global Market join various other j...
  
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ARTICLES

• Walkers Contributes 4 Chapters to ICLG's Private Client Guide 2020 - Walkers has provided four chapters to ICLG's Private Client Guide 2020. The guides provide expert le...
  
• Asset Protection - Why Jersey Trusts And Foundations Appeal To Middle Eastern Clients - Robert Dobbyn is a partner specialising in private capital and trusts work in Walkers' Jersey team. ...
  
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NEWS

• Control, Simplicity and Collaboration – Offshore Talking Points from the United Arab Emirates - After spending six days with colleagues from our Jersey, Guernsey and Dubai offices meeting with cli...
  
• Walkers' Global Private Capital & Trusts Team Retains Top Tier Ranking - Walkers' international Private Capital and Trusts team has been named in the highest tier by indepen...
  
• Walkers' Private Capital & Trusts Group Shortlisted for Offshore Firm of the Year - Walkers is pleased to announce that its Private Capital & Trusts Group has been shortlisted by Chamb...
  
• Walkers Impresses in The Private Client Global Elite 2019 - Six Walkers lawyers have been included in the 2019 Private Client Global Elite, up from three lawyer...
  
• Seven lessons on insolvency for incoming trustees from the Z Trusts litigation - Many readers will have heard about the Z Trust litigation in Jersey, which has implications for trus...
  
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ADVISORY

• International Savings Plans (“ISPs”) - Following an amendment to the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961 (the “Law”), effective from 1 January...
  
• Taking back control: undue influence and trust revocations - Undue influence was the issue at stake in a judgment of the Royal Court of Jersey this month. In Rep...
  
• Here We Go Again: Representation of A in the Matter of the G Trust - What’s this – surely not another mistake/Hastings-Bass briefing from those people at Walkers? We...
  
• Creditor’s remorse: In the matter of the E Settlement - Not for the first time in recent years, the Royal Court of Jersey has shown itself willing to assist...
  
• A sting in the tail: the latest instalment from the Crociani litigation - Although the substantive judgment in the Crociani litigation was handed down on 11 September last ye...
  
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