Helena Lavin

Senior Counsel at Walkers

Speaker

Helena Lavin is a Guernsey Advocate and Senior Counsel in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Group, specialising in contentious trust and insolvency matters.

She has been practising in Guernsey for around ten years – prior to that she worked in the Middle East, and with law firms in England, and also worked as in-house counsel.

Helena has broad expertise acting for and advising predominantly international clients in disputes often with a multi-jurisdictional element.

Having 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.