| Nassau |
Ocean Centre,
Montagu Foreshore,
East Bay Street,
P. O. Box N-3247,
Nassau, Bahamas |
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| Area of Practice |
Banking and Compliance Law
Conveyancing
Commercial Litigation |
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| Education |
College of The Bahamas (AA), Nassau,
Bahamas
University of the West Indies (LL.B), Cave Hill
Barbados
Eugene Dupuch Law School (Certificate of legal Education),
Nassau, Bahamas
University of California (LL.M, International
Commercial Law), Davis, California |
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| Admissions |
| Bahamas, 2001 |
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| Memberships |
Bahamas Bar Association |
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| Tara Cooper Burnside |
| Partner Phone: 242 502 5200
Fax: 242 502 5250
E-mail: tcooper@higgsjohnson.com
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| Mrs. Tara Cooper
Burnside
is a member
of the firm’s Litigation, Financial Services
Law & Regulation and Insolvency & Restructuring
Groups. In addition to litigation, Mrs. Burnside
provides advice on a wide scope of insolvency,
multi-jurisdictional commercial, employment and
transactional matters. Her financial services
regulation practice covers the range of
transactional, regulatory and compliance issues that
financial institutions confront on a daily basis.
Further, Mrs. Burnside's litigation practice includes
complex commercial disputes and contentious
insolvency matters such as director misfeasance
actions and fraudulent preference claims.
Mrs. Burnside holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the
University of the West Indies at Cave Hill,
Barbados and a Certificate of Legal Education
from Commonwealth Caribbean's Council of Legal
Education Eugene Dupuch Law School at Nassau,
Bahamas. In addition, she holds a Master
of Laws degree in International Commercial Law
from the University of California at Davis and
was called to the Bahamas Bar in 2001. She
joined Higgs & Johnson as an Associate in 2005
and became Partner in 2010.
Mrs. Burnside is presently an associate tutor in
Civil Procedure and Practice at the Eugene Dupuch Law School and a member of the Board of
Directors of Faith Temple Christian Academy. She
is also a former member of the Constitutional
Reform Commission (2002 - 2007). |
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