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Lisa Vizia

Director (Guernsey/Cayman), Saffery Trust
Part of a group Guernsey
1
Distinction listed
40
years in current expertise
Profile

Lisa Vizia is a Director at Saffery Trust, with responsibility spanning Guernsey, the Cayman Islands, and Dubai. With close to four decades of experience, she specialises in UHNW family office structuring, with particular expertise in Middle Eastern families and Shari'a Law compliance. Her work encompasses multi-billion dollar trust structures, international real estate, luxury asset management (art, antiquities, jewellery, aircraft, super yachts), and private equity. She secured a Grand Court of the Cayman Islands blessing for a complex trust asset distribution case under Shari'a Law, and has administered a billion-dollar structure for a prominent Middle Eastern family encompassing property, hotels, private assets, and hedge fund and private equity investments.

She is a member of STEP and the Institute of Directors, and a panel member for the STEP Private Client Awards. She has been named in eprivateclient's "50 Most Influential" in 2020, 2023, and 2024, and received the Citywealth Magic Circle Career Achievement Award in 2022 and the Wealthbriefing European Awards Leading Individual Advisor prize in 2021. She is also included in the Citywealth Global Guardians 100 and the 2026 Private Client Global Elite Directory (non-legal adviser category).

Specialisms
Succession planningFamily governance
Recognition
Citywealth Leaders List — Family Office Advisors 2025 — Leaders List member View source ↗