Tania is a Guernsey Advocate with over 20 years’ experience of practising Guernsey law, with a particular emphasis on financial services regulation, regulatory investigations and enforcement, and financial crime.
Having worked in both private practice and in the General Counsel and Enforcement Divisions of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), she brings a unique perspective to clients on their regulatory compliance obligations and interactions with regulatory bodies. At the GFSC Tania also liaised with a variety of industry stakeholders and helped represent their views to Government officials while leading the initial review and proposed amendment of Bailiwick’s financial regulation laws. She has also played a key role in the development of a number of Guernsey’s other laws, particularly in the field of intellectual property and also while working within the legislative drafting team at the Law Offices of the Crown in Guernsey.
Most latterly Tania was the International Mutual Legal Assistance Advocate for Guernsey, with responsibility for facilitating Guernsey’s responses to requests for mutual legal assistance in international financial crime matters, including requests for civil asset forfeiture. Tania has appeared in both the Royal Court of Guernsey and Guernsey Court of Appeal on key regulatory and administrative law matters.
In private practice, Tania has worked as a litigator in complex commercial and public law matters in both Guernsey and New Zealand, and was a Partner at AO Hall in Guernsey.