Helen E. Cooper

Helen E. Cooper is a Director in the Private Client & Trust department in the Bermuda office of Conyers Dill & Pearman. Helen joined Conyers in 2001 and became partner in 2009. Helen’s practice covers all aspects of trust and private client law with specialist expertise in private trust company structures, trust reorganisations and international and local estate planning arrangements, as well as providing advice to private banks, charities, beneficiaries and protectors on a variety of trust related matters.

Recent Experience

• Establishing a Bermuda private trust company for a Monaco resident client involving complex family and corporate governance issues
• Advising on the complicated reorganisation of a Bermuda law trust structure to facilitate the sale of a substantial UK retail business for a high profile client, where confidentiality and privacy issues were paramount
• Advising on the complex reorganisation of a Bermuda law trust with South American beneficiaries which facilitated the sale of the trust’s interest in a large family business, leading to a successful application to the Bermuda Court approving the reorganisation
• Advising a trustee on the reorganisation of a large Bermuda law trust structure for a Russian family and working closely with a US legal team on the restructuring of investments across multiple jurisdictions
• Advising the Trustees on the reorganisation of a Bermuda law trust with Italian resident beneficiaries, which involved substantive cross-jurisdictional issues, including forced heirship and succession issues

Professional Background

• Barrister, 4-5 Gray’s Inn Chambers

Education

• Inns of Court School of Law, 1994
• Columbia University, NY, NY, 1988

Bar Admissions

• England & Wales, Solicitor, 1994 (not currently practising)
• Bermuda, Barrister & Attorney, 1997

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