BAHAMAS / PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHIES
BrianMMoree 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 Moreehas served on numerous Government boards and commissionsincluding the Judicial SalaryReview Commission and the Bahamas Electricity Corporation. He servedasthe Chairman of The Public Service Commission whichisaConstitutionalCommission responsible for the appointment, removaland disciplining of civil servants in the Bahamas. Mr Moreewas alsoamember of The Judicial and Legal ServicesCommission which is responsible for the appointment of Magistrates, Judgesofthe Supreme Courtand certain other public officers. He is aformer Co-Chairmanofthe Bahamas Trade Commission,the former Chairman of the BoardofDirectors of the ReviewBoardfor the Business Licence/Valuation Unit in the Ministry of Finance and aformer director of the Bahamas Financial ServicesBoard. Mr Moreecontinues to serve as adirector of anumber of privatecompanies, 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 IFLR1000 /LEADINGLAWYERS 2014 7
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