An independently-owned Cayman Islands Trust Company specialising in contentious trusts, philanthropy and complex trust structures.
At IMG Trust Company we aim to be the Gold Standard of curated service, lasting connection and game-changing integrity in the trust industry. A Cayman Islands Trust Company that delivers consistent and proactive service, led by a team of experienced lawyers who know how to handle even the most complex and contentious situations.
We bring together global expertise and a deft touch; helping clients resolve challenging and complex situations and projecting them forward, on a greater path.
We will be around for the good times and for when things don’t go according to plan. We are here for our clients when you need us most, now and for generations to come.
We have extensive experience in contentious trust litigation, including challenges to the validity of trusts and the transfer of assets, and the recovery of assets misappropriated by third parties.
Our expertise also extends to divorce-related claims on trust funds and cross-border proceedings.
As lawyers ourselves, we can manage litigation and coordinate with lawyers worldwide to ensure our clients’ trusts receive the best legal representation possible.
Formalising and institutionalising philanthropic giving has never been more prevalent than it is today. IMG have significant experience in this area, and have worked with a number of families in the creation of charitable trusts, the drafting of charitable policies and charters that match each family’s core principles, and the administration of those charities. We are deeply committed to improving mental health care and have committed to an ongoing program of grants to local charitable causes in the Cayman Islands.
We work with families who own diverse assets across different locations and asset classes, including cars, yachts, art, real estate, and investments. This demands multi-jurisdictional tax advice, compliance reporting, and investment performance monitoring.
We also help families who have built their wealth through family- owned businesses by developing and implementing family charters to guide the next generation.
From our base in the Cayman Islands IMG provides a full range of professional fiduciary services to ultra-high net worth individuals, families and global businesses from around the world.
Our business model is to focus on a few exclusive family and commercial clients, rather than spread our expertise too thinly. This means that clients will always be looked after by IMG’s principals directly, rather than being passed across to more junior staff.
At IMG we aspire to be the Gold Standard of curated service, lasting connection and game-changing integrity to the trust industry.
Peter has particular expertise in complex trusts litigation, asset recovery, turning around distressed/poorly administered trusts, the development and implementation of innovative philanthropic programs and the oversight of significant operating businesses held within trust structures. He specialises in providing personalised trust and administration services for private trust clients worldwide. Peter is a former barrister with extensive experience in the international trust sector, including private and commercial trusts and corporate management and 30 years in the private client industry. He has spent his career working cooperatively and building partnerships with high-net-worth individuals, their families and their advisors and strives to deliver the highest levels of service and responsiveness.
Prior to establishing IMG, Peter was head of private client services with the Maples Group in the Cayman Islands, an executive director of Forbes Hare Trust Company in the Cayman Islands and a partner in the Private Client Group of McGuireWoods LLP in London. Prior to that, Peter held the position of Managing Director of ATC Trust Group's offices in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, as well as being a shareholder of the group.
A Who’s Who Legal ‘Thought Leader’, Peter was 2024’s exclusive recipient of the Lexology Client Choice Award in the “Private Client Trust & Advisory Services” category for the Cayman Islands. He is also a member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Maxine Bodden is a highly experienced private client advisor and trust expert, with a strong legal pedigree advising the world's leading banks, trust companies, family offices and HNW private individuals on the establishment and ongoing administration of Cayman Islands trusts and foundation companies.
During her legal career, Maxine became recognised as a leader in the use of private trust companies and all matters concerning the licensing, registration and operation of private trust companies. She also has extensive experience advising clients on matters related to wills and the administration of estates. These skills were honed while Maxine was Of Counsel with the Maples Group in the Cayman Islands where she was ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guides as a leading lawyer. A Who’s Who Legal recommended private client lawyer, Maxine is also listed in the 2022 Private Client Global Elite directory, acknowledging her position as one of the world’s most respected private wealth industry professionals, nominated by her peers featuring just 250 individuals globally each year.
Avinash is a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).
With a financial services career developed exclusively offshore (in Mauritius from early 2004 until he moved to Grand Cayman in September 2017), Avinash has a depth of experience gained through roles in global banks, top four accounting firms and a global fiduciary group.
Avinash has specific expertise in dealing with the reporting demands of regulators, as well as hands on client service experience through direct engagement with both existing and prospective clients.
Having recruited, mentored, trained, and developed teams in previous roles, Avinash is ideally placed to grow with IMG and put to good use his management skills and technical expertise in the preparation of corporate, trust and consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS, FRSs and US GAAP.
Avinash is a highly collaborative accounting professional with a technical, yet commercial mindset and the rare ability to service the needs of private clients and institutions.
At 29, Abigail was made Partner at a long-established UK-based law firm and has held several positions in advisory, in-house and academic roles, currently tutoring Trusts Law at St Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford.
A highly respected Trusts lawyer, Abigail has advised on all aspects of Private Client Law, including the preparation of wills, trusts and their accounts. She has extensive experience both on and offshore, in the administration of complex estates and trusts, including intestacies and multijurisdictional estates.
Abigail has advised in the purchase of a large Cayman business including licensing and share purchase agreements and has provided legal advice to major Cayman associations, businesses, charities and authorities.
Educated at Cardiff University, Abigail qualified as a solicitor in 1989 and has been a member of STEP since 1993.
With a wealth of leadership and strategic experience, Colin has refined his expertise in the insurance sector through a significant tenure as a Director and Shareholder at Strategic Risk Solutions Cayman from 2009 to 2023. Specialising in captive insurance management, he oversaw a diverse portfolio of captive insurance company clients and played a pivotal role in the establishment of new captive insurance entities.
Colin has served as Chairman of the Insurance Managers Association of Cayman, where he also chaired their Educational Scholarship Fund. Currently, he holds the position of Treasurer at the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce.
Colin holds an Associate in Captive Insurance, a B.A. in Economics from Boston College, and has completed a management course at the London School of Economics.
Mitchell is a celebrated legal academic and the Director at the Truman Bodden Law School, with an extensive tenure since 1992. He has made significant contributions to legal education and research, notably in Trusts, Criminal Law, Tort, Conflict of Laws, and Probate Law, across various prestigious UK universities and the Truman Bodden Law School. His scholarship includes contributions to publications including the Charity Law and Practice Review, Legal Studies, the Journal of Criminal Law and the International and Comparative Law Quarterly.
Recognised for his exceptional leadership, Mitchell is skilled in strategic planning, programme development, financial management and operational performance.
In June 2021, Mitchell's dedication to legal education in the Cayman Islands was honored with the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Mitchell is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars.