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Nassau
Ocean Centre,
Montagu Foreshore,
East Bay Street,
P. O. Box N-3247,
Nassau, Bahamas
 
Area of Practice
Corporate and Commercial Law
Real Estate Law
Banking Law
Maritime Law
Trusts
 
Education
University of Buckingham (LL.B Honours 2nd Upper), Buckingham, UK
 
Admissions
England and Wales, 1984
Malaysia, 1985
Bahamas, 1995
 
Languages
English and Bahasa Malaysia
 
Memberships

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Bahamas Bar Association
International Bar Association
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Surinder Deal

Partner

Phone: 242 502 5200
Fax: 242 502 5250
E-mail: sdeal@higgsjohnson.com

 

Surinder Deal has over 20 years of experience in Real Estate and Corporate and Commercial Law, having acted in all aspects of real estate transactions; registration of and securitization involving vessels; securities and in large scale structured finance transactions such as the sale of the consumer loan portfolio from a Bahamian licensed bank, borrowing by a Bahamian company from a US governmental agency; and the sale of a licensed Bahamian bank, being a part of the sale of a group of companies. She has also facilitated the private placements of offshore securities in The Bahamas.

Surinder earned an LL.B (Hons) degree from the University of Buckingham, England in 1983, and was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1984. The following year, she was called to the Bar in her native Malaysia, working there for one year as an Associate at the chambers of Kumar & Co. She is fluent in Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Ms. Deal joined Higgs & Johnson in 1986 as a Registered Associate and became a Partner in 1992. She was called to the Bahamas Bar in 1995, when she became a citizen of The Bahamas. She is a member of the Bar Associations of Malaysia and The Bahamas, and of the International Bar Association. She is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Higgs & Johnson is a member of TerraLex (a worldwide network of independent law firms) and Ms Deal is a director and regional co-chair of the Central American and Caribbean Region.

 


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