Nicola is the managing partner of our Jersey office and head of our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring team in Jersey. As managing partner, Nicola leads the development and growth of the firm’s presence in the region, bringing a sharp focus on client service, cross-jurisdictional collaboration and operational excellence. She also brings over 25 years of experience in international dispute resolution and a distinguished track record of advising on high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial, insolvency and trust-related disputes.
Nicola has held senior leadership roles across our global offices, including as head of our Litigatio
...Nicola is the managing partner of our Jersey office and head of our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring team in Jersey. As managing partner, Nicola leads the development and growth of the firm’s presence in the region, bringing a sharp focus on client service, cross-jurisdictional collaboration and operational excellence. She also brings over 25 years of experience in international dispute resolution and a distinguished track record of advising on high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial, insolvency and trust-related disputes.
Nicola has held senior leadership roles across our global offices, including as head of our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring team in Singapore (which she continues to serve) and head of our Trusts and Private Client group in Asia. A former partner in both our Hong Kong and Singapore offices, as well as the former Head of our Trusts and Private Client group in Asia, she spent more than six years in Asia, advising clients across the region on complex cross-border matters.
Recognised as one of the most highly sought-after offshore lawyers in Jersey and in Asia, Nicola is a formidable senior disputes partner and courtroom advocate. Clients value her unwavering commitment, strategic insight and ability to lead with authority on high-stakes matters. She is considered a trusted advisor to a broad range of clients, including ultra-high-net-worth families, trustees, financial institutions, and international corporations.
Nicola’s practice spans a wide range of commercial litigation and restructuring work, regularly involving complex, cross-border cases in Jersey, the BVI, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. She has significant experience in shareholder disputes, fraud investigations and asset tracing, contentious trusts and probate, insolvency and workouts of distressed companies, restructuring and contentious regulatory advisory matters.
Her experience in contentious trust is particularly noteworthy – Nicola has led many of our most complex and high value disputes in recent years and is regarded as a thought leader in this field.
Nicola is also one of our specialists in digital asset disputes. She has a proven track record in handling a broad range of matters relating to cryptocurrencies, NFTs, digital assets investments, artificial intelligence, decentralised finance (DeFi), smart contracts, and blockchain technology. She regularly acts in crypto-related cases involving theft, hacking and recovery of digital and crypto assets through forensic blockchain analysis, fraud investigations, and asset tracing across multiple injunctions.
Notably, she led the first successful offshore case involving the freezing of stable coins, a landmark matter in both the Cayman Islands and the BVI.
Nicola qualified in England and Wales in 2001, was admitted in the BVI in 2008 and qualified as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey in December 2014.
Nicola is recommended by Legal 500 and is a member of the Law Society in England and Wales, the Jersey Law Society, the Hong Kong Law Society and an overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association of England and Wales. She is also a member of the International Bar Association, INSOL International and IWIRC International. Nicola is a regular contributor to the Offshore Litigation Blog.
