Law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed former senior Withers lawyer Ziva Robertson as a partner in its international private client practice group, based in London.

Robertson specialises in complex cross-jurisdictional trust issues advising trustees, beneficiaries, settlors and protectors on contentious and non-contentious cases. Among her cases was that of the RBS Coutts v W case on trust and divorce in the Cayman Islands, as well as other high-profile cases such as the Lemos litigation and the recent case of AB v MB on equitable compensation, McDermott Will & Emery said in a statement.   

She is qualified in England & Wales, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Robertson also assists with structuring family businesses through the use of trusts, foundations and holding companies across the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, Switzerland, the Channel Islands and the Middle East and the UK.

Robertson joined Withers in 2009, having previously led Mourant’s Cayman trust litigation practice. McDermott Will & Emery has more than 1,100 lawyers around the world, and some 65 lawyers in its private client segment.