Claire van Overdijk KC

Partner at Appleby

Speaker

Claire is King’s Counsel and Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Appleby’s Bermuda office. She has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious trust and estate disputes as well as commercial and civil litigation. As a specialist in the resolution of complex disputes, Claire’s practice is principally contentious extending to advocacy, strategic expertise and tactical advice in domestic and multi-jurisdictional high-value litigation. As an expert in private international law, she is also well equipped to advise on cross border elements that arise in these fields. Claire also has a broad private client practice advising on domestic and offshore wealth structuring and estate planning matters including the creation, restructuring and termination of trust structures, matters relating to trust administration, as well as probate and testamentary issues. She has extensive experience with global businesses, financial institutions, public bodies, trustees, beneficiaries, settlors, protectors, ultra-high net worth individuals and families and is ranked by Chambers and Partners High Net Worth 2024: Offshore Trusts Directory. Claire was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2003 and the Bermuda Bar in 2022. She was appointed as Kings Counsel in 2023 following extensive advocacy experience before the Higher Courts of England & Wales in the fields of civil and commercial litigation, trusts and estates disputes and public law.