SW Offshore offers a fresh, Partner-led approach to Guernsey’s legal market, tailored for clients who value responsiveness, clarity, and commercial insight.
Our team combines deep local expertise in Guernsey law with broad international experience across private practice, regulated financial services, in-house counsel roles, and senior regulatory positions. We understand how law works in practice and how to apply it to deliver real-world, pragmatic results.
We advise across a comprehensive range of sectors, including corporate, funds, banking and finance, regulatory, commercial property, and private wealth. Whether representing institutional clients, trustees, fund managers, or private individuals, we prioritise clear communication, strategic thinking, and efficient execution.
Our Partner-led structure is distinctive in the offshore market, enabling us to attract and retain exceptional talent. This ensures clients benefit from a highly experienced team delivering efficient, high-quality and responsive advice.
Being affiliated with Spencer West’s global community enables SW Offshore to offer cohesive legal services across jurisdictions, wherever our clients’ business takes them.
WHY GUERNSEY
Guernsey is a leading international finance centre renowned for integrity, independence, and innovation. As a self-governing jurisdiction with a mature common law legal system and a forward-thinking regulator, Guernsey offers a stable yet agile platform for global business.
Guernsey’s robust legal and regulatory environment makes it an ideal location for structuring complex cross-border transactions, launching investment vehicles, managing private wealth, and conducting international finance activities. The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) is widely respected for its pragmatic and proportionate approach, fostering innovation within a strong compliance framework.
The island continues to lead in areas such as green and sustainable finance, private investment structures, and digital asset regulation. Combining commercial flexibility, high-quality infrastructure, and political stability Guernsey enables businesses, investors, and fiduciaries to operate with confidence.
At SW Offshore, we are proud to contribute to Guernsey’s dynamic legal landscape, providing clients with both the local expertise and international perspective they need.
Our Legal and Regulatory Expertise
Our lawyers bring decades of experience advising on all aspects of Guernsey law, including:
Corporate: mergers & acquisitions, incorporations, shareholder agreements, disposals, and restructurings.
Funds: investment fund and private investment vehicle establishment, regulatory licensing procedures, investment transactions, restructurings, disposals and wind-ups.
Finance: acting for lenders and borrowers in local and cross-border finance, including secured lending, asset finance, fund finance, real estate finance, and structured finance.
Regulatory: all aspects of regulatory compliance including regulatory licensing and exemptions, strategic guidance on policies and procedures, compliance monitoring programmes, regulator visits and enforcement issues.
Private Client & Trusts: Supporting fiduciaries and UHNW families with trusts, foundations, and succession planning.
Real Estate: Acquisitions & disposals, leasing, development, and financing of commercial property.
An Internationally Minded Practice
As an affiliated firm of Spencer West, a global community spanning 20+ jurisdictions, including the Bahamas, BVI, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, South Africa, USA and beyond, SW Offshore is uniquely positioned to advise on multi-jurisdictional transactions and joined-up offshore structuring solutions.
Our lawyers are trusted advisors to fund managers, trustees, family offices, and financial institutions who value our ability to navigate the bigger picture while expertly managing the local detail.
When you partner with SW Offshore, you benefit from seamless collaboration across jurisdictions, time zones, and practice areas, ensuring that your legal needs are met with agility and precision.