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Craig Swart

Partner

Specialism: Lawyers Non-contentious Trusts Contentious Trusts

Company: Dickinson Gleeson

Location: St Helier, Jersey

Citywealth rating

4.395835
Average: 4.4 (12 votes)
Fee Level:
4.416665
Average: 4.4 (12 votes)
Quality of Advice
4.333335
Average: 4.3 (12 votes)
Communications Skills
4.416665
Average: 4.4 (12 votes)
Interpersonal Skills
4.416665
Average: 4.4 (12 votes)
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Institutional client review:

I have worked with Craig for quite a number of years now, and I appreciate his wide-ranging expertise. He is excellent to work with and can always be relied upon for quick, pragmatic considered advice. He is extremely approachable and delivers swift solutions to technical and complex issues- a problem solver.

Christian Falle    Fairway Trust Limited   
31 Oct 2022

Institutional client review:

Craig is commercial, pragmatic and solution oriented in his thinking. He is a key part of why Dickinson Gleeson are a 'go to' for advice and document drafting. Craig is approachable and always on hand to talk through a client matter no matter how complex.

29 Mar 2021

Private client review:

Craig and the team at Dickinson Gleeson are not just top quality advisors, they value relationships and provide a first class client experience with every engagement. They make every engagement feel like it is the most important one that they are working on, no matter how busy they might be, or how tight the timeframes are to finalise the transaction that they are opining on. I cannot recommend their services enough.

26 Mar 2021

Institutional client review:

Working with Craig on a number of matters has been nothing short of a pleasure. Craig has a very direct and practical approach to matters leaving no stone unturned to ensure that all the facts are taken into account and professionally presented.

Mark Pinnick    Accuro Fiduciary   
25 Mar 2021

Institutional client review:

Craig is able to balance his technical excellence with a friendly, calm and clear communication style. He always applies a pragmatic and client focused approach to his work.

13 Jul 2020

Peer review:

I have worked closely with Craig for well over ten years on a variety of complex and challenging transactions. He is always accommodating, approachable and extremely commercial when needed. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Craig.

29 Apr 2019

Peer review:

Craig Swart is always approachable and very helpful providing legal assistance at very short notice and he is a very dedicated lawyer when assisting with Jersey non-contentious and contentious legal trust matters

29 Apr 2019

Peer review:

Craig is a very professional, technically astute and personable legal advisor. My dealings with Craig have been in the Trust and Fiduciary space focussing on Private Client. He is equally astute and experienced in dealing with contentious matters and litigation.

10 Apr 2019

Private client review:

Very responsive and pragmatic advice, highly recommended.

09 Apr 2019

Peer review:

Technically excellent and a great strategic thinker.

Henry Brandts-Giesen    Kensington Swan   
02 Jul 2018

Peer review:

Great straight-talking lawyer.

Simon Morgan    Vistra (Jersey) Limited   
23 Apr 2018

Peer review:

I have known Craig Swart of Dickinson Gleeson Advocates, Jersey for a few years now and we have worked on quite a few matters, largely non-contentious. Craig is very accessible, always available on the telephone or quickly by email and indeed in person to discuss matters that arise. He’s very efficient in suggesting a way forward in a no nonsense type manner.

07 Feb 2018

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2020  IFC Awards

Lawyer of the Year - Channel Islands & Isle of Man

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Average client size: Over £25 million

Fixed fee offering: Yes

Dickinson Gleeson

Number of offices globally: 1-5

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Top 100 Private Client Lawyers 2021

Institutional client review:

I have worked with Craig for quite a number of years now, and I appreciate his wide-ranging expertise. He is excellent to work with and can always be relied upon for quick, pragmatic considered advice. He is extremely approachable and delivers swift solutions to technical and complex issues- a problem solver.

Christian Falle    Fairway Trust Limited   
31 Oct 2022

Institutional client review:

Craig is commercial, pragmatic and solution oriented in his thinking. He is a key part of why Dickinson Gleeson are a 'go to' for advice and document drafting. Craig is approachable and always on hand to talk through a client matter no matter how complex.

29 Mar 2021

Private client review:

Craig and the team at Dickinson Gleeson are not just top quality advisors, they value relationships and provide a first class client experience with every engagement. They make every engagement feel like it is the most important one that they are working on, no matter how busy they might be, or how tight the timeframes are to finalise the transaction that they are opining on. I cannot recommend their services enough.

26 Mar 2021

Institutional client review:

Working with Craig on a number of matters has been nothing short of a pleasure. Craig has a very direct and practical approach to matters leaving no stone unturned to ensure that all the facts are taken into account and professionally presented.

Mark Pinnick    Accuro Fiduciary   
25 Mar 2021

Institutional client review:

Craig is able to balance his technical excellence with a friendly, calm and clear communication style. He always applies a pragmatic and client focused approach to his work.

13 Jul 2020

Peer review:

I have worked closely with Craig for well over ten years on a variety of complex and challenging transactions. He is always accommodating, approachable and extremely commercial when needed. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Craig.

29 Apr 2019

Peer review:

Craig Swart is always approachable and very helpful providing legal assistance at very short notice and he is a very dedicated lawyer when assisting with Jersey non-contentious and contentious legal trust matters

29 Apr 2019

Peer review:

Craig is a very professional, technically astute and personable legal advisor. My dealings with Craig have been in the Trust and Fiduciary space focussing on Private Client. He is equally astute and experienced in dealing with contentious matters and litigation.

10 Apr 2019

Private client review:

Very responsive and pragmatic advice, highly recommended.

09 Apr 2019

Peer review:

Technically excellent and a great strategic thinker.

Henry Brandts-Giesen    Kensington Swan   
02 Jul 2018

Peer review:

Great straight-talking lawyer.

Simon Morgan    Vistra (Jersey) Limited   
23 Apr 2018

Peer review:

I have known Craig Swart of Dickinson Gleeson Advocates, Jersey for a few years now and we have worked on quite a few matters, largely non-contentious. Craig is very accessible, always available on the telephone or quickly by email and indeed in person to discuss matters that arise. He’s very efficient in suggesting a way forward in a no nonsense type manner.

07 Feb 2018

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Insolvent trusts: defining the duties of trustees

Craig Swart continues to advise one of the trustees in the long running saga involving two ‘insolvent’ Jersey trusts. The trustees sought directions in early 2015 as to the ongoing administration of the trusts. The case is ground-breaking in that it defines the duties of trustees dealing with 'insolvent' trusts; the competing rights of creditors and beneficiaries and more importantly the equal ranking of successive trustees’ rights of indemnity (as now confirmed by Jersey’s highest court of appeal, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council); and the fetters on fiduciaries’ (including protectors’) powers that arise. It also confirms that the court’s supervisory jurisdiction is wide ranging permitting it to impose a “winding up” type regime as it has now done in relation to both trusts.