Bernadette is a partner at Carey Olsen and the head of the firm’s Cayman Islands Trusts and Private Wealth team. She has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. Bernadette is also an experienced trust litigator and she regularly appears before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust matters, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private client disputes. Bernadette is an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust law, an International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and a long-standing Council Member of the Cayman Islands branch of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners. She is recognised for her trusts and private client work by Chambers, Who’s Who Legal, and Legal 500, with market sources describing her as “one of the premier trust attorneys in the Cayman Islands” and “really first class”.
Bernadette is a partner at Carey Olsen and the head of the firm’s Cayman Islands Trusts and Private Wealth team. She has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. Bernadette is also an experienced trust litigator and she regularly appears before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party non-contentious applications and contentious trust matters, as well as in respect of estate litigation and other cross-border private c...

Publications

Private Client Law Guide

Co-author of the Cayman Islands chapter in the Private Client Law Guide , published 29 April 2025 , alongside Katie Turney .