| Nassau |
Ocean Centre,
Montagu Foreshore,
East Bay Street,
P. O. Box N-3247,
Nassau, Bahamas |
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| Area of Practice |
Trusts
Foundations
Banking Law
Estates
International Commercial Law |
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| 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 |
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| Admissions |
| Bahamas, 1994 |
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| Memberships |
Bahamas Bar Association
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (founding
member and past chairperson)
Law Society of England and Wales (non-practising)
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| 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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