Advocate Simon Franckel
Advocate Franckel qualified as an English solicitor with DLA in 1989. He then worked at Leeds firm Walker Morris for 11 years, heading up the corporate debt recovery department. A specialist commercial litigator, Simon’s expertise includes banking, trust and funds disputes, anti-money laundering issues, regulatory investigations, asset recovery, insolvency, trustee applications, professional negligence and partnership and shareholder disputes.
Advocate Franckel is a regular speaker at seminars on trust-related matters, and offers in-house training on trust and dispute resolution matters.
In addition to having a number of published articles, Advocate Franckel was asked by the Oxford University Press to Pre-review a text on Protectors on the basis of his knowledge of the area.
Position
Partner
Career
Trained DLA and Walker Morris (Leeds); qualified 1989; Applebys (formerly Bailhache Labesse) 2001-2006; BakerPlatt 2006; partner in charge of trusts and commercial litigation 2007.
Member
Member: Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists; STEP; Jersey Law Society; English Law Society
Outside interests and leisure
Photography, karate, reading, World War 1, Trustee of CPT
Practice Areas
Litigation, contentious and non-contentious trusts, professional negligence, insolvency.