Bernadette is the head of our Cayman Islands trusts and private wealth team and has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters including the creation of dynastic structures; the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts; and probate and testamentary issues. She is also an experienced litigator in the private client space, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust disputes, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes.

Bernadette regularly advises high net worth individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, executors, wealth managers, institutional clients, and onshore legal teams on all aspects of trusts and estates law in the Cayman Islands.

Bernadette is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), where membership to the global body is by invitation only. She is also an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC), and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). She is a director of the Cayman Islands Family Office Association, launched in 2022. Bernadette is the author of the Cayman Islands chapters of numerous private client text books, including "International Estate Planning: A Reference Guide" and "Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions". Bernadette was listed as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Who's Who Legal for Private Client. She is also ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth, and features in the 2024 Private Client Global Elite Directory.