Michelle is a Partner in the firm’s Banking and Finance, Corporate and Commercial, Investment Funds, Private Client Groups. She is widely known for her work in investment funds, securities law, corporate and commercial matters, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, employment law, immigration, probate, private client and wealth management matters.
Michelle routinely works with both international and local clientele ranging from large financial institutions and international law firms to private individual clients and works closely with the various regulators in The Bahamas.
Michelle serves on several Bahamas financial service Board committees namely, she co-chairs the Immigration and ease of doing business working group committee, the investment funds working group committee and the Fintech working group committee. She frequently speaks at both local and international conferences
Michelle is advising a number of private ultra-high net worth family offices with assets in the Bahamas. She provides an array of services to them, inclusive of real estate, labour, practical operations requirements for their homes and yachts and immigration mattes for personnel.
- Financial services regulatory
- Investment funds
- M&A
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Structured finance/securitisation
- Banking
- Financial services
- Investment management
- The Bahamas Bar Association
Michelle was a director of the Bahamas Financial Services Board for the period 2006 – 2010 and again commencing 2017. Michelle serves on the committees for investment funds, securities, foundations and ease of doing business and immigration, and most recently for the Fintech Working Group, playing an integral part in the review of proposed legislation.
- LLB (with Hons), University of Kingston Upon Thames, UK (1998).