Master Lawyer Nick HOWELL

Nick joined the firm in January 2023 and is an Associate in the Disputes & Risk team, having previously headed up a Civil and Commercial Litigation department in an English firm. He was promoted to Managing Associate in July 2023 and to Senior Associate in November 2024.With a degree in Law from the University of Reading, Nick has over ten years of litigation experience dealing with a wide variety of matters. This included shareholder disputes, director disputes, breach of contract claims, employment and contentious probate matters.Recent HighlightsActed in a multi-party commercial litigation involving allegations of an unlawful dividend, fraudulent misrepresentations and breaches of a share purchase agreement. Settled by mediationNick acts in proceedings bought in Guernsey in relation to a multi-jurisdictional dispute involving multiple parties, from different jurisdictions, in which jurisdiction is being contested, with experts in these foreign jurisdictions being instructedCurrently acting in several hostile trust proceedings, for the trustee, protector and beneficiaries variously. These complex, multi-party, breach of trust claims have involved multiple satellite applications including obtaining a freezing order over the disputed assets to prevent them being disposed, disclosure of documents, privacy, collateral use, order of proceedings, joinder, applications under the Trusts (Guernsey) Law, 2007Nick acts for multiple fiduciaries that have been subject of referral to the enforcement division of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, including the referrals to the Senior Decision Maker and statutory appeals from a decision to impose sanctions by the Commission to the Royal Court under The Financial Services Business (Enforcement Powers) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2020 which involved novel points of law