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Nassau
Ocean Centre,
Montagu Foreshore,
East Bay Street,
P. O. Box N-3247,
Nassau, Bahamas
 
Area of Practice
Trusts
Foundations
Banking Law
Estates
International Commercial Law
 
Education
University of Lancaster (BA) (Hons), Lancaster, England
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (Trustee Diploma)
University of London (LL.B) (Hons), London, England
 
Admissions
Bahamas, 1994
 
Memberships

Bahamas Bar Association

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (founding member and past chairperson)

Law Society of England and Wales (non-practising)

 
Awards

 
Heather L Thompson

Partner

Phone: 242 502 5200
Fax: 242 502 5250
E-mail: hthompson@higgsjohnson.com
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Ms. Heather L. Thompson has had extensive experience in international trust and company administration, counselling individual and corporate clients on the creation of trusts and ownership structures and giving advice to trust companies on the development of new services and issues arising in trust administration. Her practice also includes wills, applications for probate, estates administration, foundations, private trust companies, issues in company law and international commercial contracts.

Ms. Thompson was educated in the United Kingdom at the University of Lancaster (BA) (Hons) and University of London (LL.B) (Hons). She attained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Trustee Diploma in 1981 following a year-long secondment to National Westminster Bank's Trustee Department, West End Branch, London, and was called to The Bahamas Bar in 1994. She joined Higgs & Johnson in 1992 as an articled clerk and became a partner in 2000.

Ms. Thompson is a founding member and past chairperson of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) in The Bahamas and a former member of STEP's Council. She is also a member of the Law Society of England and Wales (non-practising). Ms Thompson has served as a consultant on several important pieces of financial services legislation, including Acts relating to Purpose Trust Foundations and Private Trust Companies. In 2003 the Bahamas Financial Services Board named her Executive of the Year. She has been named a
pre-eminent adviser in Euromoney's 'Guide to the World's Leading Trusts and Estates Lawyers (2009)'.

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