About Us

Our deep involvement with our clients, understanding of their backgrounds, and central role as solution-finder and strategic adviser combine to position us well to deal with the high-level monitoring required by regulation in respect of clients from certain parts of the world, or involved in certain types of activity, or with sensitive business or personal connections.

Our Services

Our Philosophy

The clients we wish to support are inherently “complex clients”. Often our clients come from emerging markets, might be considered as politically exposed, have complex assets that require managing or can be involved in a legal wrangle or other equally demanding issues.

Rocquaine has as its nucleus a small team of principals with immense experience in the legal and fiduciary sectors of providing solutions for complex clients.

We define “complex clients” as those with any combination of:

  • cross-border asset or business interests,
  • assets including trading businesses,
  • ultra-high personal wealth,
  • backgrounds in opaque jurisdictions presenting challenges in verification of histories and activities,
  • exposure to political connections (“politically exposed persons”, or PEPs), or
  • Internet profiles showing adverse comment.

Where we work in tandem with other service providers, we will have our own engagement with our clients so that clients’ relationships are with Rocquaine directly.

Rocquaine has a regulated operating subsidiary in Mauritius (see Home page). The Rocquaine group, at this stage of its development, remains outside the regulatory net in all other jurisdictions and does not hold itself out as conducting any activities requiring regulation in any jurisdiction outside Mauritius. However, the trust and fiduciary service providers we work alongside are regulated as required in their respective jurisdictions of operation.

At Rocquaine, we cherish our clients. As such:

  • We are introduced to most of our clients via word-of-mouth referral. Our clients have usually either worked with one of the Rocquaine senior team before, or been referred to us by another client who has.
  • Our clients’ privacy, for proper reasons, is precious to us. We are now in a financial environment requiring a certain level of transparency, and of course we adhere to all the consequent formal requirements. At the same time, we understand that our clients demand a circumspect and discreet service and expect their privacy to be respected to the greatest extent consistent with those requirements. This is how we operate.
  • Rocquaine is careful and highly selective about which clients we choose to work with as our relationships are for the long-term.
  • We aim for consistency of service. A key part of Rocquaine’s future lies in retaining our key individuals to ensure quality and discretion in our service, and longevity in our relationships with our clients.

Our People

Tony Gardner-Hillman

Co-Founder and Chairman

Tony is a solicitor admitted to practice in England and Wales who qualified in 1982. He moved to Jersey in 1984 to join the Jersey law firm Crills where he was a partner from 1987 to 2002 and headed the Financial Services Business and Regulation team.Tony was also a Jersey resident non-executive partner of the international law firm Holman, Fenwick & Willan (Jersey partnership) from 1987 to 2002. In 1987 Tony co-founded Jersey Trust Company (JTC), a regulated financial services business, where he drove the development of the business including the private wealth division.

Tony remained a principal shareholder and director of JTC until selling his shareholding and resigning as Non-Executive Group Chairman in 2008. Since 2008, Tony has worked full-time on a portfolio of client company directorships focusing on complex corporate situations. He has worked extensively in the areas of mining and minerals, oil and gas, forestry, farming, growing and exporting plants, real estate investment and development financing, private equity, corporate finance, digital technology, intellectual property, and insurance, involving assets around the World and consequently working with advisers and other professionals world-wide.
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He is particularly experienced at producing solutions to unlock value in assets trapped by poor decisions, market conditions, disputes and litigation, title impediments and other barriers.

Andrew Terry

Co-Founder and Director, Private Clients & Tax

Andrew is a solicitor admitted to practice in England and Wales who qualified in 1984. Since 1985, Andrew has practised in City of London and Central London law firms in the area of taxation. He has a specialisation in international corporate tax matters as well as in international wealth planning structures for high and ultra high net worth families and their underlying businesses. For over 11 years until 2017 Andrew was a senior equity partner at Withers LLP where he established and headed up the Russia/CIS practice at that firm.

Andrew has worked extensively in the areas of mining, oil and gas, mobile telecoms, pharmaceutical and food retail, hotels and transportation. He is particularly experienced in designing international structures involving clients from emerging markets, in which area he has been working since 1995. Serving this client base Andrew was one of the first practitioners to use trusts in structures for Kazakh clients starting in the early 2000s and for Kyrgyz clients from 2001. He has significant experience in tax planning for IPOs as well as debt capital raisings.

Andrew is highly rated by Citywealth as a practitioner for his area of specialisation.