Mrs Genell Sands > McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes > Nassau, Bahamas > Lawyer Profile

McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes
MAREVA HOUSE, 4 GEORGE STREET
PO BOX N-3937
NASSAU, BAHAMAS
Bahamas

Work Department

Competition Law; Labour & Employment; Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner, Chair of Labour & Employment Practice Group

Career

Genell K. Sands is one of the leading personal injury lawyers in The Bahamas.

Her specialities also include civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, dispute resolution, insurance law,  company liquidations and employment law.

Her expertise further covers banking litigation, trust litigation, debt recovery and competition law.

For over two decades Genell has been representing clients on a variety of complex cases. She routinely represents large national and international insurers and brokers, multinational banks, liquidators and receivers.

Languages

English

Education

The College of Law, London  – BVC 1998

University of Leeds – LLB. 1997

The College of The Bahamas AA (History) 1994

Lawyer Rankings

Bahamas > Dispute resolution

The ‘very professional and knowledgeable’ practice at McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes excels across the spectrum of contentious work with experience before the Supreme Court and the Privy Council. The group is particularly noted for its commercial and trust disputes expertise as well as insolvency and restructuring knowledge and is able to handle multi-jurisdictional mandates. Senior partner John Wilson KC leads the department and is also active in the firm’s trust and private client practice. Elsewhere in the team, Sean Moree KC is praised as ‘responsive, efficient and quite the all rounder’, Timothy Eneas KC focuses on property litigation, and Genell Sands handles insurance and personal injury claims. Kevin Moree is the key contact for tax disputes, and Erin Hill is the primary name at senior associate level.