Lawyers in Bahamas
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Stephen Melvin
Stephen has significant experience in the representation of local and international property developers and cruise ship companies with private island developments & ports. He specialises in:- foreign direct investment; the sale and acquisition of hotels, marinas and resort developments (mixed use projects) and all aspects of project/development finance. He has been involved in all aspects of the master planning of a number of resorts and mixed use developments as well as all legal services related to Bahamas Government negotiations, advice on investment regulations and applications, including Heads of Agreements and Hotel Encouragement Act Concessions. Stephen also services high net worth clients with all matters related to real estate investments and advice in regard to structuring for estate planning purposes and tax efficiency. Stephen is also the Nassau head of the firm’s Abaco office and has been involved with a number of Abaco’s resorts and developments.
Higgs & Johnson
Sterling Cooke
Sterling H. Cooke serves as the Managing Partner at Higgs & Johnson overseeing all aspects of the firm’s daily operations. He previously held the position of Co-Managing Partner from 2021 – 2024. Sterling is the former chair of the Real Estate & Development Practice Group and has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of real estate law, having practiced for over 30 years. His primary practice includes representing local and international real estate investors and lenders in connection with mortgage loan and construction financing and loan acquisitions, complex transactions involving the purchase, sale, refinancing, leasing and subleasing of residential homes, multi-family buildings, retail complexes, office and warehouse buildings and other commercial properties for individuals and commercial entities, and advising on a wide range or real estate issues including title commitments and title insurance, adverse possession, issues affecting title, easement and access issues, and commercial and residential foreclosures. His professional practice also includes, Commercial Law, Probate and Estate Administration, Maritime Law and International Financing transactions involving Bahamian registered ships and companies.
Higgs & Johnson
Surinder Deal
Corporate and commercial law, banking law, securities, gaming law, real estate law; secured and unsecured financing, merchant shipping (registration and financing).
Higgs & Johnson
Takeio Frazer
Takeio is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Group, having joined the firm in 2023.
Lennox Paton
Tara Archer-Glasgow
Tara supervises the Asset Recovery Unit and chairs the Intellectual Property group. She is a highly experienced Dispute Resolution lawyer with more than 21 years of legal experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on banking and compliance, employment, company law and admiralty law. She regularly appears as counsel or co-counsel in many important cases in all of the courts of The Bahamas and has appeared before the Privy Council in England. Tara provides legal advice to individuals, major financial service providers and global corporations regarding multi-jurisdictional litigation, shareholder disputes, fraud, asset-tracing and internal operations. She has assisted clients in the tracing and recovery of millions of dollars, and represents clients in franchise and intellectual property disputes.
Higgs & Johnson
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
Terry North
Terry North is a Partner in the Firm’s Property Development Practice Group and the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and is the Managing Partner of Alexiou Knowles & Co. As a litigating attorney, Terry’s core areas of expertise include insurance, real estate, trust and estates and employment law. Terry has evolved as an accomplished advocate with notable successes and a strong reputation with clients. He has recently acted as co-counsel for the defendants in a high-profile trust & estates action. He has also been involved in defending a leading insurer with respect to claims involving life policies. Terry attended the University of the West Indies where he obtained an LLB degree and completed his legal education as a pupil in the law chambers of Isaacs, Johnson & Co. He was admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas in 1978. In the early years of his career Terry began as a transactional lawyer, with a busy practice involved in matters related to real estate, corporate and commercial law and trust & estate law.
Alexiou Knowles & Co
The Honourable Mr. Justice Jon Isaacs
Consultant
Lennox Paton
Theominique Nottage
Senior Associate
McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes
Timothy Eneas KC
Partner, Vice Chair Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group
McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes
Valdere Murphy
Valdere J. Murphy is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Group. Since joining the Firm in 2018, he regularly appears as lead and junior counsel before the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. Valdere has a keen interest in insolvency and restructuring, asset tracing, injunctive relief, corporate and contractual disputes, admiralty and trust litigation. He has experience in representing both individual and institutional clients at all stages of litigation, including interlocutory applications (such as injunctive relief), at trial and on appeal. Valdere has also gained noteworthy experience in cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters since joining the Firm. Valdere is currently the Chair of the Young Lawyers Group of Multilaw for the Caribbean/Offshore Region.
Lennox Paton
Vanessa Smith
Partner
McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes
Vivienne Gouthro
Partner and chair of the Maritime & Shipping practice group, Vivienne is a corporate and commercial lawyer with experience in chambers in England, Spain, Gibraltar and The Bahamas. Specialising in ship and international finance, Vivienne acts primarily as local counsel for major international financial institutions in the European and Asian markets, providing legal advice on complex international finance matters and all aspects of international maritime transactions and commercial acquisitions and sales. She also guides ship owners through the registration of pleasure yachts and large commercial vessels on the Bahamian Register of Ships. In addition to her maritime practice, Vivienne has extensive experience in commercial law, real estate and development, private client and wealth management and intellectual property law. She counsels diverse corporate and private clients in the sale and purchase of real estate and related financing, as well as on matters relating to wills, probate and administration of estates, intellectual property and immigration law. Her practice also extends to provide a full range of corporate services to clients, including the incorporation and licensing of local companies and obtaining of all governmental and regulatory approvals. She acts for major domestic banks, hotels and local institutions, and has assisted in the purchase and financing of large developments on the Island of Grand Bahama.
Higgs & Johnson
Vonisha Rolle
Vonisha is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Group, having joined the firm in 2022. Her practice primarily focuses on Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring, Corporate and Commercial.
Lennox Paton
Wilfred Ferguson Jr.
Wilfred is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, working directly under Senior Partner and head of litigation, Brian Simms QC. His practice covers insolvency and restructuring, trust disputes, commercial litigation, personal injury, contractual disputes and fraud cases. Wilfred has appeared as junior counsel in both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas.
Lennox Paton
Wynsome Carey
Wynsome D. Carey is a Partner in the firm’s Property and Development Practice Group, and the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group. She is dedicated to providing exceptional and professional representation to her clients and building long lasting relationships. Wynsome’s broad practice includes real property acquisitions and sales, domestic mortgages, private and commercial leases, divorce and matrimonial matters, adoption’s, admiralty law, administrative law, banking, trusts, personal injury, land disputes and other civil and commercial disputes. She recently appeared as Junior Counsel before the Supreme Court in a large multi-jurisdictional contentious trust dispute; involving the jurisdictional limits of the Supreme Court to assist in trust-related arbitrations. Other recent matters include: Defending claims for a leading insurer for alleged conduct and other insurance related litigation matters; Prosecuting debt recovery claims for a leading international commercial banks; Acting on behalf of banks and private lenders in residential and commercial foreclosures; Defending an Asset Manager in litigation involving a business email compromise scam
Alexiou Knowles & Co
Zarina Fitzgerald
Chair of the Commercial Transactions group having acted in all aspects of commercial transactions, including large scale structured finance transactions, initial public offerings and private placements of offshore securities, mergers and acquisitions, and the registration and securitisation involving vessels and in real estate transactions.
Higgs & Johnson