Kirsten Porter Senior Associate

Kirsten is a Senior Associate within our Corporate and Commercial practice, having joined in early 2019. Kirsten qualified as a Manx Advocate in 2016 and is a Commissioner for Oaths.

She has more than 8 years’ experience advising on broad range of multi-jurisdictional corporate, commercial and regulatory work including corporate acquisitions and sales, banking and finance transactions and shipping and insolvency matters. From a regulatory perspective, Kirsten has significant experience advising clients on their legal obligations under financial services legislation and anti-money laundering legislation.

Kirsten also specialises in employment law. As a key member of our Employment team, she regularly advises both employers and employees in contentious and non-contentious matters, including contracts of employments, policies and procedures, redundancy and office closures, share incentive schemes, immigration, discrimination claims and settlement agreements.  Her clients include global and local corporate companies within various sectors, including banking, insurance, e-gaming, telecommunications and transport. Kirsten has been recognised as having “excellent client relationship skills and able to easily and consistently deliver high quality work to her clients in a timely manner.”

Clients describe Kirsten as “responsive, concise and commercial minded” with another client remarking that she was “prompt in providing thorough and easily comprehensible responses.  The work was done within the fee cap agreed as the start of the matter.”

Publications

• Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide – Banking and Finance: Isle of Man 
• Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide – Banking and Finance: Isle of Man 

Services and Sectors

• Corporate and Commercial
• Employment
• eGaming
• Technology