Selwyn Figueras

Selwyn Figueras is a barrister and a partner at Hassans. He assists individuals and families considering a move to Gibraltar, and works with Hassans’ Private Client and Tax teams to guide them through residency and relocation, including under the recently updated rules relating to Category 2 individuals as well as in respect of the HEPSS status. With the team, he assists with the structures through which wealth is held and protected.

Selwyn also works closely with artificial intelligence. He uses and builds AI tools, in his own projects and in projects for the firm, and follows the technology and its regulation closely. He writes on the questions AI now puts to lawyers, regulators and businesses: where liability rests when AI causes harm, how identity and persona should be protected in law, and how a small, responsive jurisdiction such as Gibraltar can bring AI-native financial and professional services within regulation early and on the basis of evidence. His articles include Regulating AI: A Call for Clarity and Innovation (December 2024), Gibraltar and AI: Confidence, Complexity, and the Right Speed of Innovation (January 2026), AI, Regulation and the Gibraltar Instinct (January 2026), AI, Liability, and the Legal Definition of Persona (February 2026) and When the chatbot becomes the adviser: AI, financial education and the regulatory perimeter (November 2026).

Selwyn served as a Member of the Gibraltar Parliament from 2011 to 2015 and has remained closely involved in the jurisdiction’s public life since, which gives clients a clear reading of Gibraltar’s law, its institutions and its direction, including the new framework governing Gibraltar’s relationship with Europe and the opening of the frontier further to provisional implementation (as at 15 July 2026) of the recently signed Treaty on Gibraltar’s relationship with the EU entered into by the U.K. and the EU on 14 July 2026.

He first joined Hassans in 2001, working with the tax and property finance teams, and returned to the firm in 2019.

He writes regularly on Gibraltar’s law, its politics and its place in the world, and on artificial intelligence including a recent personal account of the opening of the frontier.  You can follow him by visiting his LinkedIn Profile, or catch up with his latest insights on this website, listed below.

Individuals considering a move to Gibraltar can request a confidential consultation with Selwyn directly at selwyn.figueras@hassans.gi.