Helen E. Cooper

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

Awards & Accolades

• Recognised in the 2021 edition (and 2020) of Chambers HNW (offshore: trusts)
• Recognised in the 2020 edition (and since 2011) of Legal 500 Caribbean (trusts/private client)
• Recognised in the 2018 edition (and since 2013) of Who’s Who Legal (private client)
• Recognised as one of CityWealth IFC’s Top 200 Power Woman for 2017 (and since 2014)
• Recognised in the 2017 edition of the CityWealth Leaders List (private client)
• Recognised in the 2015 edition of Legal Media Groups’ Expert Guides (trusts and estates)

Associations

• Lincoln’s Inn London
• International Bar Association
• Bermuda Bar Association

Bermuda Private Client & Trust Bulletin, June 2016