Philip C Dunkley KC
High Net Worth Guide 2024
Senior Statespeople : Offshore: Trusts
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About
Provided by Philip C Dunkley KC
Practice Areas
Complex commercial and chancery litigation (appearing in the BCCI, Grupo Torras cases and the Oracle Fund liquidation), commercial and shipping transactions.
Career
Partner since 1978; Former member - Judicial & Legal Services Commission, the Supreme Court Rules Committee and Disciplinary Tribunal. Former Acting Justice of the Supreme Court. Appointed as QC (2009). Included in the Global Restructuring Review’s inaugural GRR 100 (2017) survey for his work in cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.
Professional Memberships
Bahamas Bar Association; The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple; International Bar Association; STEP; Association and Legal Scholars, Centre for International Legal Studies (Honorary)
Publications
International Execution Against Judgment Debtors & International Commercial Fraud (Bahamas chapters) - Sweet & Maxwell; Impact of New Legislation in The Bahamas on Trust Attacks - Trusts & Trustees.
Personal
Educated in England at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire. Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1973; Bahamas Bar in 1974.
Chambers Review
High Net Worth
Philip Dunkley KC is a senior partner at Higgs & Johnson. Dunkley has extensive experience in handling trust disputes and restructuring matters. His work includes advising wealthy individuals, families and fiduciaries on major international litigation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Philip brings invaluable experience and support to matters worked on by his colleagues, and is respected among his peers."
"Philip brings invaluable experience and support to matters worked on by his colleagues, and is respected among his peers."