Voisin

Chris Le Quesne is a partner in Voisin’s Commercial team and is a Jersey Advocate.

Chris’ practice is principally focused on corporate and commercial law, together with banking and finance advice relating to the structures that he advises on. His instructions range from share and business sales and M&As, restructuring, corporate governance and fiduciary issues, as well as financings and insolvency, for both large structures administered in Jersey and local businesses. He has extensive knowledge of Jersey law and regulatory considerations relating to companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, JPUTs and other wealth-structuring vehicles. Chris is also experienced in applications to the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA).

Chris is also a highly experienced trusts lawyer, frequently advising local trust company businesses, together with individual trustees, settlors and beneficiaries, in relation to high value private trust structures, PTCs and orphan structures.

Chris has a deep experience of offshore structures and transactions – his areas of practice extend to regulatory advice for both local businesses and international clients. He has also acted on a wide variety of fund structures (ranging from “club-style” JPFs to a substantial legacy Unclassified Fund structure) and CLOs.

Recent Deals

– Lead lawyer on a substantial acquisition by a local enterprise of two businesses, which entailed a complex application to the JCRA and was subject to significant time constraints
– Acted for the vendor on the sale of a Jersey-based investment business regulated by the JFSC
– Principal Jersey lawyer advising institutional lenders on the financing and re-financing of a complex JPUT structure holding UK-based student accommodation
– Lead lawyer on a discretionary trust restructuring involving significant underlying assets
– Advised on all Jersey law aspects of corporate restructuring and sale transaction involving high-value UK commercial real estate
– Lead lawyer for the UK-based purchasers of a local agricultural business, including the successful application to the JCRA for consent to the transaction
– Lawyer for owners of a local business introducing a large UK-based investor
– Advised extensively on refinancing and corporate law matters concerning a large and complex structure holding UK-based hotels (both operational and development sites)
– Jersey lawyer acting for the trustee vendor of an underlying high value Caribbean real estate asset held through a trust and company structure
– Advised on the sale of shares and associated restructuring of a significant local finance business, including the establishment of an employee benefit trust and a preferential investment mechanism
– Advised on matters of Jersey corporate law ancillary to a large-scale arbitration taking place in London
– Advice in relation to the winding up of an insolvent JPUT trust by way of a composition agreed between the creditors
– Advised on the establishment of a property holding structure incorporating aspects of an existing LLC structure based in Delaware

Awards