Ogier continues to nurture and invest in local talent with 36 promotions across the Channel Islands

In the firm’s latest commitment to supporting and developing its talent in Jersey and Guernsey, Ogier has confirmed dozens of progressions spanning its legal, corporate and fiduciary, and business services teams.

On the legal side in Jersey, the Corporate team sees Alex Fisher progress to managing associate, with Gayoung McLellan, Marcela Tudose and Mark Watson becoming senior associates.

These appointments reflect the growing strength of Ogier’s Corporate team, which advises on a broad range of industry sectors, commercial opportunities and investment-related transactions. The team has been involved in some of the largest and most complicated deals in Ogier’s global jurisdictions in recent years.

Ryan Ripamonti is now also a senior associate in Ogier’s top tier Investment Funds team.

Representing the Jersey office for Ogier Global, the firm's corporate and fiduciary division, Danielle Van Neste has progressed to associate director, Eden Harrison has been promoted to senior client accountant, Silvio Andrade and Becca Journeaux to senior managers and Heather Rabet and Stephanie Alves to managers. Ross Middleditch, Jonny Rolfe and Max O'Shaughnessy become assistant managers, while Kylie Dufty becomes senior compliance manager.

Justine Baxter has progressed to senior administrator, while Douglas Brown, Linus Burns and Eva Wallace have all progressed to administrators.

In Jersey's business services team, Annu Rani has been promoted to head of finance for Hong Kong and Luxembourg, Jacquee Mwakazi to senior finance administrator, Izabela Gawlicka to senior billing administrator and Connor Christie to senior manager. Stuart Perchard becomes director of HR business partnering, Holly Walker becomes senior HR manager and Luke Wright progresses to assistant manager of resourcing and onboarding.

Mike Grabos has been promoted to senior information security risk analyst, Tim Frojd to senior business analyst, Matt Ellis to senior technical consultant, Jason Maindonald to senior IT systems manager and Cory Batchelor to senior service desk analyst.

Meanwhile, Nicky Norton becomes senior manager of group work space strategy, Kathleen King becomes quality assurance manager and Sarah Edmondson becomes senior programme manager.

Across the Channel in Guernsey’s business services team, Abby Brown has been promoted to senior professional support lawyer and Nicci Martel to senior communications manager.

Global Managing Partner Edward Mackereth said: “Our culture is all about nurturing the incredible talent within our business. We are dedicated to providing opportunities for learning, development and recognition, ensuring that every individual has the chance to thrive.”

Jersey practice partner Raulin Amy said: “Ogier is an employer that believes in helping our people to be their best selves at work and succeed in their roles, whether that’s through our ethos of continuous learning, our development opportunities, the recognition and feedback we encourage, or flexible working arrangements and many other initiatives.

“It’s a real pleasure to see valued colleagues develop and progress at Ogier and to recognise the talent we have on the island. Congratulations to all on their well-deserved achievement.”

Christopher Jones, Ogier’s practice partner in Guernsey, said: “We believe in developing and rewarding homegrown talent at every level and across all our services, so it's excellent to see another cohort of colleagues progress to new roles within Ogier.

“Congratulations to these individuals and I look forward to their continuing contributions in strengthening our client offering in Guernsey.”

A total of 83 promotions and progressions have occurred across Ogier’s global network which is the largest number to date.

The firm now has more than 1,200 people in its legal, corporate and fiduciary and consulting divisions, including 110 legal partners, working in office locations including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ireland, Dubai, London, Luxembourg and Hong Kong.