Legal Specialist Solutions

We advise fintech start-ups, investors, global digital assets businesses, financial institutions and asset managers developing their own products and services. We also work closely with policymakers, regulators and governments to facilitate appropriate legislation and regulation that keeps pace with innovation. Hailed as frontrunners, we have a particular expertise in advising businesses specialising in blockchain, digital assets, alternative model finance and a wide range of related activities and services including funds, issuers, digital assets exchanges, custodians and broker dealers.

We apply the same integrated and innovative services that we offer to global financial institutions to private clients. HNWIs, UHNWIs, families and their advisors look to us to help them navigate the complexities of global jurisdictions efficiently for asset protection and succession planning. From trusts to foundations, and from family offices to club investments, our team is a trusted guide to the key investment hubs of Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey.

We advise on contentious and non-contentious employment law matters in Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish, and Jersey law. Our in-depth knowledge and expertise covers the entire life cycle of employment issues, from recruitment contracts to post-termination restrictions. We guide and support clients on compliance projects, organisational change, workplace investigations, disputes, and senior exits. In addition to our front-end employment advisory service, we provide comprehensive transaction and project services, working on an integrated basis with other teams across the Walkers network to provide effective outcomes for our clients.

Offering Irish tax law advice to international and domestic clients, our team comprises tax lawyers and accountants drawn from leading Irish law and accounting firms. We advise on all manner of financial, corporate and real estate transactions. Relied upon by financial institutions, asset managers and administrators, investors, issuers, and arrangers, we cut through the complexity of tax law to deliver practical and client focussed advice.

We are consistently ranked highly in the leading tax and legal publications and work collaboratively across the firm’s practice groups and with in-house and external counsel and leading international accounting and audit firms to help clients navigate the evolving tax landscape and comply with tax legislation and regulation while achieving their operational and strategic objectives.