Tara Cooper Burnside KC

Tara is a partner in the firm’s Litigation, Financial Services Law & Regulation, and Insolvency & Restructuring practice groups. She has detailed knowledge of the Bahamian insolvency regime and has worked on a number of cross-border insolvencies and restructurings including the compulsory liquidation of Moore Park Funding and the $100 million insolvency of the Realto Group. She is regularly retained to advise insolvency practitioners, and is a Fellow of INSOL International. Tara also specialises in commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes and contentious and non-contentious employment matters, involving both individual and collective rights. She has appeared on petitions for just and equitable winding up and relief from unfair prejudice and oppression. She has experience acting for and against directors facing allegations of breach of fiduciary duty. · Higgs & Johnson

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Tara Cooper Burnside KC is a partner at Higgs & Johnson practising in Litigation, Financial Services Law & Regulation and Insolvency & Restructuring, with detailed knowledge of the Bahamian insolvency regime and experience in cross-border restructurings including the compulsory liquidation of Moore Park Funding and the Realto Group insolvency. She also handles commercial and shareholder disputes, contentious and non-contentious employment matters, has appeared on petitions for just and equitable winding up and relief from unfair prejudice and oppression, and is a Fellow of INSOL International.

Practice areas

LitigationInsolvency & RestructuringFinancial Services Law & RegulationEmploymentCorporate / M&A

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Bahamas

Higgs & Johnson · Tara is a partner in the firm’s Litigation, Financial Services Law & Regulation, and Insolvency & Restructuring practice groups. She has detailed knowledge of the Bahamian insolvency regime and has worked on a number of cross-border insolvencies and restructurings including the compulsory liquidation of Moore Park Funding and the $100 million insolvency of the Realto Group. She is regularly retained to advise insolvency practitioners, and is a Fellow of INSOL International. Tara also specialises in commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes and contentious and non-contentious employment matters, involving both individual and collective rights. She has appeared on petitions for just and equitable winding up and relief from unfair prejudice and oppression. She has experience acting for and against directors facing allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.

Bahamas

Expertise

Bahamian insolvency regimeCross-border insolvencies and restructuringsCompulsory liquidationsAdvising insolvency practitionersShareholder disputesContentious and non-contentious employment mattersDirector fiduciary duty casesPetitions for just and equitable winding up and relief from unfair prejudice/oppression

Education

University of California, Davis (LL.M., International Commercial Law)
Eugene Dupuch Law School (Certificate of Legal Education), Nassau, Bahamas
University of the West Indies (LL.B.), Cave Hill, Barbados
College of The Bahamas (A.A.) (Hons), Nassau, Bahamas

Admissions

Bahamas Bar Association