Zoë Hallam
Group Partner
Guernsey
Zoë is a Group Partner* in Guernsey and part of our Banking & Finance Practice Group. She specialises in fund finance with several years' experience in the Cayman Islands prior to relocating to Guernsey.
She is part of Walkers' Global Fund Finance Group and advises both borrowers and lenders on subscription, net asset value and hybrid facilities, and in relation to GP and LP financings. Her clients include leading international banks, alternative lenders (including private credit funds) and fund sponsors.
Zoë also has extensive experience in leveraged acquisitions, corporate finance and real-estate finance, as well as non-contentious restructurings and security enforcement.
*not admitted in Guernsey and not a member of Walkers (Guernsey) LLP
Zoë also has extensive experience in leveraged acquisitions, corporate finance and real-estate finance, as well as non-contentious restructurings and security enforcement.
*not admitted in Guernsey and not a member of Walkers (Guernsey) LLP
Our go-to lawyer for Guernsey legal advice, with particular expertise on fund finance matters. She is technically excellent, very responsive and gives commercial advice.
Experience and recent work
Zoë qualified with Salans (now Dentons) in 2007 in London, joined Walkers in the Cayman Islands in 2011 and relocated to the Guernsey office in 2019. She is recognised by Legal 500 as a next generation partner.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Cayman Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- LLB English Law and French Law, University College London/ Université d'Aix-Marseille III
- LPC, College of Law in London
2026 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking & Finance - Tier 1:
"Our go-to lawyer for Guernsey legal advice, with particular expertise on fund finance matters. She is technically excellent, very responsive and gives commercial advice."
"Zoë Hallam demonstrates a high level of engagement on the matters we have engaged the Walkers team on, providing clear and timely advice and managing Guernsey matters excellently. She is commercially minded in her approach to advice and to transactions, which is a real benefit to matters."
2025 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking & Finance - "Zoë Hallam is my go-to adviser for Guernsey law banking matters. She has a gift for simplifying complex areas of law in her advice. On transactions she and her team always deliver."
2024 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking & Finance
2022 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking & Finance - "Zoë Hallam leads a highly competent team. They are knowledgeable, well-organised and very responsive. Overall, the Walkers Guernsey team is very easy to work with, which is crucial when working on complex, time sensitive cross-border transactions."
2021 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking & Finance - "Always efficient and good at liaising with London-based law firms."
2021 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Banking and Finance - "Zoë Hallam acted as our lead in a recent TISE debt listing and related activities. She was very easy to deal with and clear in her advice and was very responsive to our questions."
2020 Legal 500 - Rising Star - Banking and Finance
2020 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2019 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial - "Zoë Hallam is ‘always efficient and good at liaising with London-based law firms’."
2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
2018 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2015 and 2016: Zoë is the co-author of the Cayman Islands chapter of "Loans and Secured Financing" from Getting the Deal Through.
Team Members
Other team members with related expertise
Alex Wickens
Group Partner*
Guernsey