INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Philip C Dunkley KC

Philip C Dunkley KC

High Net Worth 2025

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Practice Areas

Complex commercial and chancery litigation (appearing in the BCCI, Grupo Torras cases and the Oracle Fund liquidation), commercial and shipping transactions.

Career

Currently Consultant at the Firm. Partner (1978 - 2024); Senior Partner (1999 - 2024); 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.

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Offshore: Trusts - Bahamas

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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.

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