Claire advises clients in respect of corporate, jersey funds and banking matters.

Her principal practice area is corporate real estate and jersey funds (both listed and non-listed). Claire has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and portfolio acquisitions and refinancings. She acts mainly borrower/sponsor side on real estate finance transactions as well as for buyer and seller on M&A matters.


Claire's key clients include:

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate plc;

M7 Real Estate Ltd;

The Blackstone Group;

Harbert Management Corporation;

Supermarket Income REIT plc;

Realty Income Corporation

Her transactions of note include advising on the Jersey aspects of:

1. Blackstone's €21 million recapitalisation of Mileway, a pan European logistics company.
2. M7's Real Estate Ltd's acquisition of a £156.9 million UK retail parks portfolio
3. Harbert Management Corporation's sale of two of the UK's best known industrial estates for £480 million to Blackstone;
4. Realty Income Corporation's acquisition of 12 properties from a JV of J. Sainsbury's and British Land for £429 million;
5. Blackstone Capital and Blackstone Real Estate's acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a UK based leisure and holiday company.

Significant Accomplishments

Claire qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2005 (currently non-practising) working at London law firm Memery Crystal. She has been at Carey Olsen since 2006 and qualified as a Jersey advocate in 2011. In 2010 Claire spent four months on secondment at top PRC law firm King & Wood’s Shanghai office.

Claire obtained her LLB and LPC at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.

Recent Experience

• A guide to funds and private equity in Jersey
• Jersey limited partnerships
• A guide to JPUTs (Jersey Property Unit Trusts)
• Jersey Private Funds
• Jersey Expert Funds
• Jersey Listed Funds
• Jersey fund structures
• A round-up of the recent updates affecting investment funds in Jersey
• Carey Olsen promotes four lawyers to the partnership across BVI, Guernsey and Jersey offices
• Quarterly round-up of the recent investment funds updates in Jersey
• The new JFSC outsourcing policy: are you in scope?
• An overview of Jersey funds: Comparative table