Welcome to Trust Corporation International

Trust Corporation International has firmly established itself over the past 16 years as one of Guernsey’s leading independent fiduciary and corporate service providers. Characterised by independence and professionalism, the in-house technical expertise, director-led ethos and low director-to-staff ratio sets us apart. Our team has earned a reputation for administering complex and high-value structures which tend to sit outside the traditional comfort zone of many offshore fiduciaries.

We're meticulous in what we do

Our objective is to be the "best in class" in each of our practice areas. We offer a carefully considered service, based upon proven experience and our professional backgrounds. We provide our clients, their advisers and family offices with exceptional service and believe that earning and maintaining trust is paramount.

Michael Betley

Chief Executive Officer

Michael is a founder of this business having established it in 2003. Previous to that Michael worked in London and Guernsey as a private client partner of Wedlake Bell, a London law firm.

He has...

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Ken Bradley

Non-Executive Chairman

Ken is a non-executive chairman with almost 30 years of experience in the finance industry. His previous roles include heading up and holding directorships of large international banks across the retail, corporate and fiduciary spaces. Ken was head of fiduciaries for Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of...

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Kenneth Wrigley

Finance Director

Ken is a chartered accountant and responsible for the finance and accounting functions of the business as well as having significant client involvement. Ken brings with him both private practice and commercial banking experience having worked with a top ten UK accounting practice and then with a...

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Jonathan Plimley

Director

Jonathan has over 20 years' experience working with individual and corporate clients, managing their offshore structures. He spent the early part of his career working for a Top Ten accountancy firm in their tax team. Jonathan completed his legal training with Wedlake Bell, a medium sized London...

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Michael Heyworth

Director

Michael is the lead director for a number of family office relationships, investors in private equity, property and managed portfolios.

Michael specialised in trust law in private practice and tends to...

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Anthony Tennant

Director

Anthony trained with a large independent trust company in Guernsey qualifying initially as a Chartered Secretary before qualifying as a Chartered Tax Adviser. Anthony then worked for a ‘big 4’ accountancy firm advising UK resident and non-UK resident individuals on their tax affairs...

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Andrew Walters

Director

Andrew is an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey and was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple before subsequently qualifying as a solicitor. Prior to joining Trust Corporation International, he was a partner of one of the world’s largest offshore law firms having previously practiced with...

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Andréa Daley Taylor

Director

Andréa trained with a major Guernsey based institutional fiduciary and banking group, qualifying as a Chartered Secretary in 1995. With 25 years' fiduciary experience she assumes day-to-day responsibility for a number of families and their family offices based in the US, Europe and Middle East...

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Mark Coffell

Director

Mark joined Trust Corporation International in 2008 and prior to that he was the director in charge of private client trust services in the Guernsey fiduciary division of Close Trustees (the parent being a FTSE 200 listed company). Mark manages a range of client relationships including complex...

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Lydia Essa

Director

After completing a law degree at Cambridge University, Lydia completed her training contract at the magic circle firm, Allen & Overy LLP.

She then spent ten years practicing as a private client...

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Paul Buckle

Director

Paul qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales in 1995, since when he has worked in London and Guernsey specialising in contentious trust and pensions work. Prior to joining Trust Corporation International, Paul was a group partner with two leading Guernsey law firms and...

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Latest news

Trust Corporation International appoints Paul Buckle to its board

One of Guernsey’s leading independent fiduciary services providers, Trust Corporation International, has appointed trusts and pensions expert Paul Buckle to its board of directors. Mr Buckle is well known to many within the offshore trust world, having worked for over 15 years as a trusts lawyer in Guernsey, specialising in complex trust and pension litigation. […]

Trust Corporation International is first Guernsey business to carbon offset all employee vehicles

Trust Corporation International has worked with ESI Monitor to become the first business in Guernsey to carbon offset the impact of all its employees’ vehicles. ESI Monitor, the local environmental and social impact monitoring consultancy, launched the Carbon Offset Plus scheme earlier this year with the aim to offset 10,000 tonnes of CO2 produced by […]

Trust Corporation International recognised as top-tier firm

Trust Corporation International has for a second year been named as one of the top independent trust companies by eprivateclient, the online publication for private client professionals. The tiers are based on reputation, quality of service and how the firms have fared in the past 12 months and Trust Corporation International is pleased to be […]

Trust Officer at Trust Corporation named on top 35 under 35 list

Carmen Mills, trust officer at Trust Corporation International, has been named on the annual ‘Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35’ list of private wealth practitioners. 2020 marks the third edition of the annual eprivateclient Channel Islands Top 35 under 35 list. The aim of the list is to identify, recognise and promote local talent across the private wealth sector and […]

Run Off Trusts

The use of trusts in the context of investment fund liquidations is on the up. Advocate Andrew Walters, a Director of Trust Corporation International, explains the merits of the trust as a means of facilitating dissolutions where circumstances prevent a straightforward realisation and distribution exercise. When a collective investment scheme nears the end of its […]

Anti-Bartlett clauses – some clarity at last?

It is a well-established principle of trust law that (in the absence of contrary provision) a trustee has the same duty to safeguard a trust-owned company as it would any other asset, notwithstanding that the trustee may not possess the requisite skills to contribute to the management of that company. The result can be a […]

COVID-19: The Ultimate Lesson in Fiduciary Responsibility

The rapidly developing Coronavirus pandemic has, in pretty short order, forced trustees and other fiduciaries to make significant changes to the ways in which they operate. Any pre-conceived notion that a one-size-fits-all approach suits fiduciary practice has been blown out of the water. Exceptional market volatility, the rapidly changing employment landscape and a greatly reduced […]