BAHAMAS / PRACTICE
Brian M Moree
Senior partner
McKinney Bancroft & Hughes
Nassau
Tel: +1 242 322 4195/9
Email: bmmoree@mckinney.com.bs
Web: www.mckinney.com.bs
Biography: Brian Moree, Q.C. is the senior partner of McKinney
Bancroft & Hughes and the head of the litigation department. He
was appointed one of Her Majesty’s Council for The
Commonwealth of The Bahamas in October 2009.
Mr Moree’s practice includes commercial and civil litigation,
insolvency, corporate and trust structuring and financial services.
He regularly appears as counsel in the courts of the Bahamas
including on several occasions appearing in the Privy Council. His
practice includes cross border litigation and international cases
involving disputes in Europe, the Cayman Islands, the British
Virgin Islands, the United States of America, Canada, South
America and Africa. He has been involved in a large number of the
major commercial cases which have been litigated in the Bahamas
relating to banking, trusts, insolvency, receiverships, companies and
partnerships, insurance and re-insurance, compliance, governance
and regulatory issues, fraud claims, asset recovery including tracing
and proprietary claims, Anton Piller, Mareva and freezing orders,
anti-money laundering claims, property disputes, and contracts.
Mr Moree has acted as a Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate and a
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas. In December 2002
the Prime Minister of the Bahamas appointed Mr Moree the
Chairman of the Financial Services Consultative Forum whose
primary role was to advise the Government on matters relating to
the financial services industry.
Mr Moree has served on numerous Government boards and
commissions including the Judicial Salary Review Commission and the
Bahamas Electricity Corporation. He served as the Chairman of The
Public Service Commission which is a Constitutional Commission
responsible for the appointment, removal and disciplining of civil
servants in the Bahamas. Mr Moree was also a member of The Judicial
and Legal Services Commission which is responsible for the
appointment of Magistrates, Judges of the Supreme Court and certain
other public officers. He is a former Co-Chairman of the Bahamas
Trade Commission, the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Review Board for the Business Licence/Valuation Unit in the
Ministry of Finance and a former director of the Bahamas Financial
Services Board. Mr Moree continues to serve as a director of a number
of private companies, international banks and trust companies,
insurance companies and public companies.
Mr Moree was admitted to the Bahamas Bar in February 1979. He
previously was the Chairman of the Commercial Law Committee, a
member of the Bench Bar Committee and one of several
chairpersons of the Arbitration Tribunal.
Mr Moree is a regular speaker at local and international conferences
and seminars and also has written numerous articles for journals
and legal publications.
Bar admissions: Bahamas
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