Brian M. Moree

Brian M. Moree is the senior partner of McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes in Nassau, The Bahamas, and heads its Litigation Department. He was appointed one of Her Majesty's Council for The Common- wealth 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. Mr. Moree's practice includes cross-border litigation and international cases involving disputes in Europe, the Cay- man Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S., Canada, South America and Africa. He has been in- volved in a large number of the major commercial cases that 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 propri- etary 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 him as chair- man of the Financial Services Consultative Forum, a policy advisory counsel whose primary role is to advise the government on matters relating to the financial services industry. Mr. Moree has served on         numerous government boards and commissions, including the Judicial Salary Review Commission and the Bahamas Electricity Corp. He has been and continues to serve as a director of private companies, international banks and trust companies, insurance companies and public companies. He was also a di- rector of the Bahamas Financial Services Board. Mr. Moree was admitted to the Bar of the Bahamas in February 1979. He previously chaired the Commercial Law Committee, was a member of the Bench Bar Committee and was a lecturer and examiner in civil procedure. He was also one of several chairs 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.