Brian Simms KC

Practice Areas

Brian Simms KC is the Senior Partner of the firm and the head of its Litigation and Insolvency & Restructuring Groups. He is one of the Bahamas’ leading advocates and has vast experience in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, in addition to having appeared a number of times in the Privy Council.

He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 2009 and is instructed in the most substantial Bahamian and international offshore cases.

Practice Areas:

-Litigation & Dispute Resolution

-Insolvency & Restructuring

-Trust & Foundations

-Private Client

Professional Memberships

-Member of the Bahamas Bar Association

-Previous Member of the Bahamas Bar Council

-Overseas Member of the English Chancery Bar

-INSOL

Publications

Brian C. Simms QC, Recent Developments in Offshore Trust Litigation, Conference paper for the New York State Bar Association (2016)

Brian C. Simms QC and Hon. David Hayton, Vulnerability of Offshore Trusts – Recent Developments, published in the conference materials for the Offshore Alert Conference held in Miami, FL (May 2012)

Brian C. Simms QC, Attacks On Offshore Trusts, Conference paper for the New York State Bar Association (2010)

Industry Sector Expertise

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Insolvency & Restructuring

Trust & Foundations

Private Client

Work Highlights

-Matteo Volpi v Delanson Services Ltd & Gabriele Volpi – Acting for Delanson Services Ltd in a challenge to the Bahamian Court’s jurisdiction and to set aside injunctions.

-Lead counsel for Judicial Trustees in relation to on going litigation and overseeing trust assets with a value of approximately 2 Billion.

-MF Foundation v JMF Estate – Acting as lead counsel for the Trustees in a dispute with the estate over the ownership of assets and the validity of a declaration of Trust (2017)