HATSTONE - Key Persons


Abidel Angulo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Manager

Alexander English

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Group Partner
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information
Alexander's expertise in family law is across the full range of this practice area. His standing in this field is reflected by his long-standing admission to the Children's Public Law accredited panel of experts and he is a member of the Jersey Family Law Association. Alexander is a Jersey Court Advocate with over 16 years of experience. Alexander English appointed Group Partner Hatstone has strengthened its dispute resolution team in Jersey with the appointment of Advocate Alexander English to Group Partner. Alexander's addition brings the litigation department in Jersey up to two Group Partners and is a reflection of a particularly strong period of growth across its global dispute resolution practice. Alexander is experienced in all areas

Alvaro Almengor

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
  • Group Partner
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information
Alvaro is a Panamanian lawyer with over 10 years' legal experience in corporate and taxation law. Alvaro is also a qualified accountant having graduated with distinction from the University of Panama in 2017.

Bella Ward

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner
  • Group Partner in 2020 from the Jersey
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information
  • Queensland Police Officer
Bella joined Hatstone as a Group Partner in 2020 from the Jersey office of a large offshore firm. Bella Ward appointed Group Partner Hatstone is pleased to announce the appointment to Group Partner of Bella Ward, who will be based in the Hatstone's Jersey office. Bella specialises in banking, finance, corporate, commercial and real estate transactions. She has a significant practice leading cross-border corporate, banking and capital markets transactions. Prior to joining Hatstone, Bella worked in the banking and finance

Bronwin Gotz

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager
  • Personal Assistant
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information
  • South African Office Manager
Bronwin is Hatstone's South African office manager. She is also a member of Hatstone's business support team; she is a personal assistant to Hannes Botha and provides secretarial and administrative support to our South African office.

Calum McKenzie

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information

Carl O'Shea

Job Titles:
  • British Virgin Islands Solicitor
  • Director of Hatstone Listing Services Limited
  • Group Partner
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information
  • Solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
Carl is a British Virgin Islands solicitor, a Jersey Advocate and an English solicitor with twenty years' legal experience. He is ATT tax qualified and was a founding member of the Jersey Branch of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Carl is a director of Hatstone Listing Services Limited, which acts as listing sponsor for companies listing corporate debt and securities on The International Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. Carl holds a practising certificates for the BVI, Jersey and England & Wales.

Cesar Rivera

Job Titles:
  • of Counsel
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information
Cesar is a Panamanian lawyer with more than 25 years of legal experience. He holds a Panama practicing certificate.

Chrisma Genis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Christine Tostevin

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer
  • Office Accountant
  • Personal Information
Christine is a member of Hatstone's business support team. She provides financial and accounting support to Hatstone's Head of Finance and the Group. Christine joined Hatstone in 2013, having worked in the Jersey finance and legal industry as a finance assistant for many years. Prior to joining Hatstone, Christine worked as a financial administrator at one of Jersey's leading independent wealth structuring companies.

Claudia De Souza

Job Titles:
  • Legal Executive
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information

Daléne Botha

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Daniel Cann

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information

Danielle Drumm

Job Titles:
  • Legal Executive
  • Lawyer
  • Personal Information

Declan Brooks

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Hatstone ( Ireland ) LLP
  • Lawyer
Declan Brooks is Head of the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Hatstone (Ireland) LLP. He has considerable experience advising on a wide range of commercial disputes and has acted on behalf of most financial services providers in Ireland including AIB, Bank of Ireland, KBC and a number of alternative lenders. He leads a team that advises a number of financial institutions, alternative funders, private equity funds and credit servicing firms in relation to the enforcement of security, recovery of assets and debt recovery. Declan has 25 years of experience in debt recovery, commercial litigation, insolvency, corporate recovery/restructuring and bankruptcy. His expertise is crucial to the many judgment calls required at key stages in the debt recovery and enforcement process. He also advises officially appointed receivers on a number of matters, including the validity of their appointment and the ultimate asset disposal. Declan graduated from University College Dublin with a BCL honours degree in Law. He holds a Diploma in Finance Law from the Law Society of Ireland and is a member of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Donna Wearen

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer
Donna joined our Real Estate Department in May 2022 from a top-tier Dublin firm and has over 12 years of experience working in this sector. Her experience spans a wide variety of commercial and residential real estate transactions including acquisition, disposal, financing, due diligence, leasing, licensing and enforcement. In her previous role, she worked in the real estate department and latterly in the finance department working closely with the property and finance partners in supporting the finance team on the property elements of a variety of finance transactions for both lender and borrower including large commercial and residential acquisitions financing, refinancing and development financing. Donna's role was providing strategic advice on the provisions of security from a property perspective and providing conveyancing support to the wider finance team. Donna has extensive real estate due-diligence experience and has acted on a number of large cross-jurisdictional property finance transactions on a wide variety of commercial and residential property portfolios upon instruction by magic circle firms.

Eileen Isaacs

Job Titles:
  • Fund Accountant

Gerard Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Accounts

Giselle Ocampo

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head of Corporate Services

Grainne Loughnane

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner ( Dublin ) / Group Partner

Hannes Botha

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Jersey Lawfirm Hatstone

Job Titles:
  • Member of Jersey Finance
Jersey Lawfirm Hatstone is a proud member of Jersey Finance working together to promote Jersey as the first choice jurisdiction for investors.

Johan Bestbier

Job Titles:
  • Group Financial Manager

John Deeney

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Julia Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Commercial and Property Law

Julie O Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Karien van der Berg

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Laura O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Legal Executive

Lauren Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer

Les George

Job Titles:
  • Junior Corporate Administrator

Lilia Saldaña de Coriat

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Lizst Real

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Manuel Carrasquilla

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Mariana Botha-Schoeman

Job Titles:
  • Director

Mark Harbison

Job Titles:
  • Counsel

Mark Rawlins

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Mashauna Lake-Farrington

Job Titles:
  • Senior Funds Administrator

Maybe Mendieta

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Menko Hoeksema

Job Titles:
  • Director

Myra Thom

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager
  • Personal Assistant

Omaris Bedoya

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fund Accountant

Orla Canavan

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer

Paul DeCroos

Job Titles:
  • Head of Real Estate Finance

Philipp Neumann

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Robert Rakison

Job Titles:
  • Senior International Counsel

Rubeth O' Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Legal Executive

Sean Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Corporate Administrator

Shawn Saunders

Job Titles:
  • Fund Accountant

Simon Vivian

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner
Simon Vivian is a registered person under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission to conduct class G (directorships) in respect of trust company business.

Sonia McEntee

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Sophie Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fund Administrator

Sophie Therin

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Stefan Schausberger

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Stephen Wauchope

Job Titles:
  • Group Partner

Suzy Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager - Corporate Services