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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