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Whittles

Services

Trust and Estate Litigation
Regulatory
Insolvency & Restructuring
Commercial Litigation/ Fraud & Asset Recovery
Employment
Estate Planning and Wills
Administration of Estates
Trusts
Corporate & Commercial
Fintech and digital assets
Banking and finance
Foundations
Charities
Mental Incapacity
Art and Heritage Law
Notarial Services

Trust and Estate Litigation

  • Legal proceedings concerning trusts, foundations, charities, succession and estates
  • Pitt v Holt & Mistake Claims
  • Trust/Challenges
  • Beddoes applications
  • Blessing applications
  • Disclosure
  • International claims
  • Breach of trust claims
  • Rectification
  • Compliance

Regulatory

  • FSA Enforcement
  • GSC Enforcement
  • Judicial Review
  • Regulatory advisory (including licence applications and advice on the regulatory perimeter in the Isle of Man)

Insolvency & Restructuring

  • Liquidator Appointments
  • Court Appointed Receivers
  • Removal of liquidators & Receivers
  • International claims
  • General liquidation advice (voluntary or court-ordered winding up)
  • Appointing receivers pursuant to security documentation

Commercial Litigation/ Fraud & Asset Recovery

  • Freezing Orders & Norwich Pharmacal
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Breach of contract
  • Professional Negligence
  • Declaratory Relief

Employment

  • Advice Pre Termination
  • Redundancy Procedures
  • Tribunal Claims & Court Actions
  • Settlement Agreements
  • Investigation & Disciplinary
  • Immigration

Estate Planning and Wills

  • Reviewing your affairs
  • Planning your wealth to meet your needs and wishes
  • Private international law & its impact on wills and rights to inherit

Administration of Estates

  • Reviewing your affairs
  • Planning your wealth to meet your needs and wishes
  • Private international law and its impact on wills and rights to inherit

Trusts

  • Trust law
  • Drafting documents relating to the creation, administration, & termination of trusts
  • Changes of trustees and protectors
  • Remedies for issues concerning trusts

Corporate & Commercial

  • Merger and acquisition transactions (including necessary employment advice)
  • Company reorganisations (share buybacks, reductions of capital, group consolidations and dissolutions)
  • Corporate structuring
  • Corporate governance including directors’ duties
  • Isle of Man economic substance legislation
  • Drafting/ amending company constitutional documents
  • Drafting/amending shareholders’ agreements
  • Drafting/reviewing commercial contracts
  • Preparing legal opinions

Fintech and digital assets

  • Advising on the legal and regulatory landscape in the Isle of Man for new and existing fintech businesses

Banking and finance

  • Drafting/advising on facility documentation; security documentation and guarantee documentation for lending transactions
  • Carrying out security reviews of existing financial arrangements
  • Advising on creditor priority 
  • Advising on corporate financing options 

Foundations

  • Advising on foundation law
  • Drafting documents relating to the creation, administration, and termination of foundations
  • Changes of council members and power holders

Charities

  • Charity law
  • Drafting documents for the establishment, administration, and termination of charities
  • Charitable schemes and reorganisations
  • Compliance

Mental Incapacity

  • Powers of attorney
  • Appointment of receivers
  • Statutory wills
  • Administration of the property of patients
  • Acting as attorney or receiver

Art and Heritage Law

  • Transactions in art works
  • Chattels leases
  • Title disputes

Notarial Services

  • Notarisation of documents
  • Certification of documents
  • Arranging Apostille of Notarised documents at Court