Mourant promotes 30 in Channel Islands

Friday 20 May 2022

Mourant has announced 30 promotions in its Jersey and Guernsey offices.

In the Channel Islands, the firm has promoted 11 people in the legal practice, 15 in affiliated business, Mourant Governance Services and four in Business Services.

Litigator Laurie Child in Jersey has been promoted to Counsel, alongside Finance and Corporate specialist Sam Malpass in Guernsey.

Nine Associates across the legal practice have been promoted to Senior Associate. 

In the Jersey Finance, Corporate and Funds practice groups, Andrew Haslett, Corrie Howarth, Emma Huelin, Sally Müller and Sean Hedges have been promoted to Senior Associates along with Chiara Mundy in the Jersey ITPC team. 

In Guernsey, litigator Greg Coburn, property specialist Laura Bougourd and Alexander Hawkins in the International Trusts & Private Client (ITPC) team become Senior Associates.

In the Mourant Governance Services Jersey team, Claire De La Haye has been promoted to Director, Client Services along with Kalpana Piradeepan who is promoted to Director, Client Accounting. Leo Cavendish is promoted to Associate Director, Transaction Management, Paul McGinness is promoted to Associate Director, Client Services and Tom McAlister becomes a Senior Manager, Client Services.

Ross Breton in Guernsey is promoted to Senior Administrator, Client Services alongside Jersey colleagues Abbie Weaver, Kasia Reszka and Melissa Vismer. Julia Hunkin in Guernsey is promoted to Administrator, Client Services. 

In the firm’s Global Client Accounting team, Edyta De Sousa and Mark Gibbons have been promoted to Senior Manager. Abbner Ongus has become a Manager and Manfred Chikwanda is now Assistant Manager. In Global Operations, Victoria Du Val has been promoted to Manager.

In the Business Services team, Claire Nash has become Client Take-On Team Lead and Nathaniel Amies-Nash is the Senior Client Take-On Administrator in the Guernsey Risk and Compliance team. In Jersey, Marianne Stubbs has been promoted to Human Resources Operations Manager and Eleana Miller becomes Senior Business Development Executive.  

Mourant Global Managing Partner, Jonathan Rigby, said: "These individuals across our Guernsey and Jersey teams have been recognised for their strong technical skills, commercial judgement, distinct global perspective and ability to build trusted relationships with our clients and their advisers. I congratulate all of them on their achievement and wish them every success in their new roles."