Practice Expertise
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Corporate Regulation and Compliance
- Corporate Structuring
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Corporate Regulation and Compliance
- Corporate Structuring
- Corporate Trust Structures
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- Dispute Resolution and Litigation
- Employee Incentives
- Employment Pensions and Incentives
- Employment, Pensions and Incentives
- Family Office
- Fund Finance
- Fund Formation
- Fund Regulation and Compliance
- Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
- Hedge Funds
- Investment Funds
- Pensions
- Private Client
- Private Equity Funds
- Private Trust Structures
- Regulation of Trust Company Business
- Regulatory
- Trust Litigation
- Trusts and Private Wealth
- Wills and Inheritance View More
Profile
Ashley Fife TEP is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited.
He provides advice in relation to the structuring, restructuring and administration of private and commercial trusts and their underlying entities. Ashley advises in respect of the formation of family offices and regulatory issues impacting upon trustees, corporate service providers, trusts and underlying entities e.g. FATCA and CRS, beneficial ownership registers, anti-money laundering/terrorist financing and economic substance requirements.
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Corporate Regulation and Compliance
- Corporate Structuring
- Corporate Trust Structures
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- Dispute Resolution and Litigation
- Employee Incentives
- Employment Pensions and Incentives
- Employment, Pensions and Incentives
- Family Office
- Fund Finance
- Fund Formation
- Fund Regulation and Compliance
- Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
- Hedge Funds
- Investment Funds
- Pensions
- Private Client
- Private Equity Funds
- Private Trust Structures
- Regulation of Trust Company Business
- Regulatory
- Trust Litigation
- Trusts and Private Wealth
- Wills and Inheritance
Professional Career
Ashley has extensive experience having been first admitted to practice as a solicitor and barrister in New South Wales, Australia in 2000 before being admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2007 and as a barrister in Bermuda in 2015. Before moving to Bermuda in 2013, he was Head of Legal at the Jersey office of Equity Trust (now known as TMF) in Jersey where he worked for 6 years.
Ashley holds a Bachelor of Laws from Wollongong University, NSW, Australia and a Masters of Laws (specialising in taxation, commercial and corporate law) from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is Vice Chair of the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), a committee member of the STEP 'International Client' Special Interest Group, and a member of Bermuda's Trust Law Reform Committee and Trust Focus Group. Ashley regularly presents in Bermuda as well as abroad and contributes articles to leading journals on his areas of expertise. In 2023, Ashley received the STEP Founder's Award which is presented annually to individuals who have made an exceptional and outstanding long-term contribution to the Society.
Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited is a company limited by shares incorporated in Bermuda and approved and recognised under the Bermuda Bar (Professional Companies) Rules 2009. The use of the title “Partner” is merely to denote seniority. Services are provided on the basis of our current terms of business, which can be viewed at: www.careyolsen.com/terms-business.
Recent Experience
- Private Client Guide 2023 - Bermuda (Legal 500)
- The growing reach of the CRS
- Carey Olsen speaking at STEP New York Luncheon
- Eight Carey Olsen lawyers featured in Private Client Global Elite directory
- Independent contractor guidance pursuant to the Employment Act 2000
- Carey Olsen sponsors Transcontinental Trusts Bermuda 2023
- Carey Olsen attending STEP Caribbean Conference
- Five chapters authored for Legal 500 Private Client guides, 2023
- Carey Olsen leads offshore firms in Chambers High Net Worth 2023
- Why should Bermuda executives and High Net Worth Individuals make a Will?
- Carey Olsen attending 4th annual Wealth Management Forum
- Carey Olsen sponsors STEP Bermuda 2023
- Carey Olsen Bermuda excels in latest rankings for The Legal 500 Caribbean
- 22 Carey Olsen lawyers recognised in 2024 edition of The Legal 500 Caribbean
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