Anthony Partridge — Private Wealth Partner · Ogier

Partner leading the Private Wealth team in the Cayman Islands for Ogier with over 23 years in practice, including 20 years offshore.

I specialise in all aspects of non-contentious and semi-contentious private trust and estate matters, with significant experience advising on wealth structuring for high-net-worth individuals, institutional trustees and family offices, together with all related regulatory work and cross-border succession matters and in particular advising Latin American clients, families and their advisors on the structuring, management and transfer of wealth through Cayman Islands structures.

I have expertise in the use of Cayman foundation companies and obtaining grants of probate, letters of administration and resealing foreign grants in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and also the British Virgin Islands. I advise trustees, settlors, beneficiaries, protectors and enforcers on all aspects of non-contentious and semi-contentious trust law including complex trust structures for estate planning and asset protection purposes, the use of STAR trusts in investment fund structures, establishment of private trust companies (PTCs), Cayman foundation companies and ongoing regulatory compliance. I also advise executors, beneficiaries and onshore counsel in relation to applications for grants of probate and letters of administration in deceased estates before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and resealing foreign grants, as well as drafting wills specifically tailored for assets located in the Cayman Islands such as shares in Cayman Islands companies.

My practice also covers BVI succession matters.

This has been a growing area for Latin American clients in private wealth from both a trusts and estate planning perspective and forms a large part of my practice. Before joining Ogier in 2017, I was senior counsel in the Trusts Group of another law firm in the Cayman Islands for several years.

Prior to that, I was a solicitor in the Revenue & Estates Group at Minter Ellison in Brisbane, Australia practising exclusively in the areas of estate planning and administration, trusts and structuring.

I served on the Cayman Islands Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) for many years holding the positions of both Chair and Deputy Chair of STEP Cayman and also acted as Student Liaison Officer of STEP for the jurisdiction.

I am a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA). I am a notary public in and for the Cayman Islands.