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Michelle Neville-Clarke

Michelle heads the firm’s Banking and Finance, Corporate and Commercial, Investment Funds, Private Client Groups. She has considerable experience in the areas of investment funds, securities law, corporate and commercial matters, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, employment law, immigration, probate, private client and wealth management matters. Michelle’s portfolio of work in financial services in the past year saw her act as lead counsel for the Special committee of directors of a publicly listed utilities company in advising s to the necessary steps for sale of the company’s shares and delisting of such company from the Bahamas International Stock Exchange. Michelle has written numerous articles and is frequently asked to present at both local and international conferences on her areas of expertise and is ranked by both the International Financial Law Review and Chambers Global. Michelle routinely works with both international and local clientele ranging from large financial institutions and international law firms to private individual clients and works closely with the various regulators in The Bahamas. · Lennox Paton

BahamasBanking & Finance, Corporate / M&A

About

Michelle heads the firm's Banking and Finance, Corporate and Commercial, Investment Funds and Private Client groups at Lennox Paton in The Bahamas and has considerable experience in investment funds, securities law, corporate and commercial matters, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, employment, immigration, probate and private client/wealth management. She acts for international and local clients including large financial institutions, acted as lead counsel to a special committee of directors of a publicly listed utilities company on a share sale and delisting from the Bahamas International Stock Exchange, is ranked by the International Financial Law Review and Chambers Global, and frequently writes and presents at local and international conferences.

Practice areas

Banking & FinanceCorporate / M&AInvestment FundsPrivate ClientCorporate ServicesSecuritiesEmploymentImmigration

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Expertise

Financial ServicesInvestment FundsPrivate WealthRegulatory & ComplianceFintech

Education

  • LL.B (Hons), University of Kingston Upon Thames, 1998
  • Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law, 1999 (Very Competent)

Admissions

  • Called to the Bar of England and Wales, 1999
  • Called to the Bahamas Bar, 1999