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Alec Anderson
PartnerOrganisation: Conyers Dill & Pearman
Date Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2006
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Alec Anderson has been a partner of Conyers Dill & Pearman since 1991. He is Head of the Trust & Private Client Department, which includes responsibility for Codan Trust Company Limited, a licensed trust company affiliate of the firm. His specialist practice area is private and commercial trust law advice involving international private clients, trust companies, banks, insurance companies and entrepreneurs; advising trustees on their duties and liabilities, advising on corporate transactions involving trusts and assisting in trust litigation matters. Mr Anderson, who was born in Bermuda, graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980 with a BA in Foreign Affairs. He received his LLB from the London School of Economics in 1983, and was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1984 (he does not currently practice in the UK). He was subsequently called to the Bermuda Bar, and to the New York State Bar in 1985. In 1984, he undertook his pupillage as a barrister in London and thereafter worked at the London law firm of Macfarlanes where he concentrated on corporate and tax work. He joined Conyers Dill & Pearman as an associate in September 1985 and practiced primarily in the corporate area for four years after which he specialised in trust law practice.A regular contributor to trade and legal publications, he is author of the Bermuda chapters of International Estate Planning (published by Matthew Bender, edited by Henry Christensen III), International Trust Precedents (published by Sweet & Maxwell) and International Charities (published by Wiley & Sons). He wrote a chapter on The Statutory Non-Charitable Purpose Trusts; Equity, Fiduciaries and Trusts (published by Carswell). He is also the Bermuda editor of the legal publication Trusts and Trustees and has written articles for many other legal publications. He is Chairman of the Bermuda International Business Association’s Trust Law Committee and a member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.