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Nassau
Ocean Centre,
Montagu Foreshore,
East Bay Street,
P. O. Box N-3247,
Nassau, Bahamas
 
Area of Practice
Banking and Compliance Law
Conveyancing
Commercial Litigation
 
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
 
Admissions
Bahamas, 2001
 
Memberships

Bahamas Bar Association

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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