Conyers Dill & Pearman, the international offshore law firm, has expanded its Trust & Private Client department with two appointments, and has also named a new head to its affiliated trust company, Codan. Barrister Nicholas Johnson returns to the firm in the Bermuda office as a senior attorney in the Trust & Private Client department, having resigned from the partnership in 2002 to return to university to complete a Masters in Divinity. Mr Johnson is a member of the Inner Temple and the Bermuda Bar Association, and is a Commissioner for Oaths. Solicitor Henry Moss also joins the Trust & Private Client department in Bermuda as an associate. He previously worked at Withers in London where he was a member of the International Trusts team within the Wealth Planning group. Meanwhile, David Sussman has joined as the head of Conyers Dill & Pearman’s affiliated Codan Trust Company. A qualified lawyer in Ontario, Canada and Bermuda, Mr Sussman has served as general counsel to Wood Gundy, one of Canada’s largest investment banks and to Bank of Bermuda. He subsequently held senior management roles with Coutts, UBS and Franklin Templeton. Headquartered in Bermuda, Conyers Dill & Pearman has more than 500 staff, with over 135 lawyers. The firm now has operations in Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Moscow and Singapore. Codan, an affiliated global network of licenced trust companies, undertakes a broad range of trust establishment and administration services. These services range from the administration of family trusts for private clients to the structuring of complex corporate ventures including special purpose trusts for ownership of securitisation structures.