Mrs Tara Burnside > Higgs & Johnson > Lyford, Bahamas > Lawyer Profile
Higgs & Johnson Offices
Lyford Crescent, Western Road
LYFORD CAY
Bahamas
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Mrs Tara Burnside
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Tara is a partner in the firm’s Litigation, Financial Services Law & Regulation, and Insolvency & Restructuring practice groups. She has detailed knowledge of the Bahamian insolvency regime and has worked on a number of cross-border insolvencies and restructurings including the compulsory liquidation of Moore Park Funding and the $100 million insolvency of the Realto Group. She is regularly retained to advise insolvency practitioners, and is a Fellow of INSOL International.
Tara also specialises in commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes and contentious and non-contentious employment matters, involving both individual and collective rights. She has appeared on petitions for just and equitable winding up and relief from unfair prejudice and oppression. She has experience acting for and against directors facing allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
Career
- The Bahamas Constitutional Reform Commission (2015-2017; 2002 – 2007)
- Steering Committee, Caribbean-Canada Emerging Leaders Dialogues (CCELD15)
- Board of Directors of Faith Temple Christian Academy (2009 – 2012)
- Eugene Dupuch Law School Associate Tutor, Civil Procedure and Practice I (2009-2011)
- Eugene Dupuch Law School Course Director, Law of Association (2011-2015)
Memberships
- Bahamas Bar Association
- Commonwealth Lawyers Association
- International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)
- Fellow, INSOL International
- News Update Editorial Committee, INSOL International
Education
- University of California (LL.M. International Commercial Law), Davis, California
- Eugene Dupuch Law School (Certificate of Legal Education), Nassau, Bahamas
- University of the West Indies (LL.B.), Cave Hill, Barbados
- College of The Bahamas (A.A.) (Hons), Nassau, Bahamas
Lawyer Rankings
Bahamas > Dispute resolution
Higgs & Johnson’s ‘great, innovative team’ is consistently active in the jurisdiction’s largest cases, acting for a variety of local and international clients at all court levels up to the Supreme Court. The practice is particularly well regarded for its expertise in cross-border litigation, banking and financial services claims, and insolvency and employment disputes; it also fields distinct teams for asset recovery work, trust litigation and tax cases, and is increasingly active in arbitration proceedings. Tara Archer-Glasgow leads the department and attracts effusive praise from clients, who single her out as ‘a smart litigation lawyer, who is punctual, concise and well organised, with a great personality’. Further key names in the practice include team deputy chair Karen Brown, who excels in employment law; senior partner Philip Dunkley KC and firm co-managing partner Oscar Johnson, Jr. KC; ‘great lawyer with great judgement’ Tara Cooper Burnside KC, who was appointed King’s Counsel in 2023; and Leroy Smith, who specialises in trust and estate litigation. Keith Major and Rhyan Elliott are the key names at senior associate level.