Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview – Vicky Olivier, Baker & Partners
This week’s 60-second Citywealth Leaders List interview is dedicated to Vicky Olivier, Senior Associate at Baker & Partners.
Tell Citywealth readers a bit about your role.
I am a Senior Associate at Baker & Partners in our Jersey office. I advise on complex cross-border litigation, trusts, and corporate disputes across Jersey and the Cayman Islands. Much of my work involves guiding clients through contentious governance issues, insolvency processes, fiduciary risk, and high–value commercial disputes, often where multiple jurisdictions, regulatory considerations and fast-moving factual matrices intersect.
What does a typical day look like for you?
My days are rarely predictable. They usually involve a combination of strategic case work, drafting submissions, advising directors or trustees, managing discovery and evidence, and liaising with offshore and onshore counsel. I also spend time mentoring junior lawyers and contributing to industry bodies and thought leadership.
Tell us about some recent, interesting client instructions/requests you have received.
Recent matters include acting on shareholder and board disputes relating to an unfair prejudice claim, advising on contentious trust restructurings with beneficiaries in resident in England, the US and Israel; managing complex employment litigation; and steering clients through multi-party insolvency disputes where governance failures and director-liability issues are central. Many of these matters involve high levels of disclosure, parallel proceedings, and sensitive negotiations between stakeholders.
What challenges do your clients face and how are you helping your clients to overcome them?
We find that clients are operating in an environment where regulatory oversight is sharper, litigation is more sophisticated, and offshore structures are scrutinised more heavily. As the world gets progressively smaller through major advances in technology and finance and investment strategies, stakeholders often look to diversify their portfolios across several jurisdictions to obtain the best possible advantages, which brings its own challenges. I help by offering clear, strategically grounded advice, coordinating multi-jurisdictional teams, anticipating litigation risk early, and ensuring clients have practical, outcome-focused solutions rather than abstract legal theory.
What is your proudest professional achievement?
My proudest professional achievement (to date) was when I was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a barrister earlier this year. As a young girl who grew up in a small rural town in South Africa, reaching that milestone felt like an impossible dream at times. I feel incredibly fortunate to be supported by an amazing team who is ready and willing to support me in my new goals. So watch this space.
What do you consider to be the most important attributes for a leader?
A leader must be able to listen to the different voices, perspectives and strengths within their team, and create an environment where people feel able to contribute openly. At the same time, real leadership requires the resilience to shoulder the burden of difficult decisions, to hold the line when pressure mounts, and to ensure the team remains supported, protected and able to perform at its best. Effective leadership, to me, is the combination of empathy, conviction and steadiness.
Who do you most admire and why?
I am lucky to have been mentored by two incredible powerhouse women throughout my professional life. When I started out as a trainee solicitor, Kutlwano Mohaleroe was instrumental in shaping the kind of lawyer I eventually became. Driven but fair, Kutlwano has an unrivalled love for the law and instilled that same love for the profession in me. Years later, when I decided to become an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, I was assigned to my mentor Sarita Liebenberg, who guided me through many difficult and wonderful times in my career at the Johannesburg Bar. To this day Sarita remains a leader in her field and one of the most compassionate people I know. Both continue to be the most important professional relationships of my life.
Where was the last place you travelled to for work or pleasure?
I recently returned from visiting our London offices for the first time. I had gone to attend the annual London International Investigations and Asset Recovery Conference (LIIARC), and whilst there, also managed to meet up with recent and future new joiners, one of whom is bound for our BVI office shortly. It definitely ended up being a fun trip.
If you weren’t in this industry, what else might you be doing?
That is a difficult one. I proudly announced I was going to become a lawyer at a career day when I was 9 and have never looked back. Most likely it would be in a mediation or negotiation specialist role. Over the years I have learnt that being the most aggressive or loudest person in the room doesn’t necessarily wins you the fight. There is a psychological and strategic aspect of the law I love, and which I think would translate well into those roles.
How do you relax after a long day?
Nothing beats a good meal and hours of laughter with my closest friends. Because I have travelled and lived in various places, I try to touch base with my friends (time zone permitting) whenever I can. Moving to the Channel Islands has also awakened a love for sea swimming in me.
If you could recommend one person in the private wealth industry who would it be, and what would you say about them?
Jared Dann, Partner, Baker & Partners. I have worked alongside and with Jared on a few highly complex matters. He is the type of practitioner whose judgment is trusted across the industry, who collaborates well even in contentious settings, and who consistently sets the benchmark for high-quality advisory work.
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