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Tara Archer-Glasgow

Tara Archer-Glasgow

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Higgs & Johnson

Higgs & Johnson

Bahamas

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Dispute resolution

Specialising in IP, admiralty, and trust disputes, Higgs & Johnson is knowledgeable of banking and finance, trust, and tax mandates. Practice head Tara Archer-Glasgow is vastly experienced before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, while Oscar Johnson Jr KC was recently promoted to senior partner in early 2025. Leroy Smith handles private client and wealth management matters, Tara Cooper Burnside KC is knowledgeable of insolvency and restructuring, and Audley Hanna Jr is versed in cross-border asset tracing litigation. Trevor Lightbourn recently handled a shareholder dispute, while Dennise Newton and Kimberleigh Peterson-Turnquest are other key team members.
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Work Department
Litigation and Intellectual Property
Position

Tara supervises the Asset Recovery Unit and chairs the Intellectual Property group. She is a highly experienced Dispute Resolution lawyer with more than 21 years of legal experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on banking and compliance, employment, company law and admiralty law. She regularly appears as counsel or co-counsel in many important cases in all of the courts of The Bahamas and has appeared before the Privy Council in England. Tara provides legal advice to individuals, major financial service providers and global corporations regarding multi-jurisdictional litigation, shareholder disputes, fraud, asset-tracing and internal operations. She has assisted clients in the tracing and recovery of millions of dollars, and represents clients in franchise and intellectual property disputes.

Career

Partner since 2006; Called to the bars of England & Wales and The Bahamas in 1998; Ranked as a leading lawyer by Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery 2016 - 2018; Vice Chair of the Poverty & Social Development Sub-committee; Former chair of the Consumer Litigation Committee of the IBA; Former part-time lecturer at University of The Bahamas.

Memberships

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn;
Bahamas Bar Association;
International Bar Association;
Center for International Legal Studies.

Education

College of The Bahamas (A.A. - Economics) (Hons);
University of Western Ontario (B.A. - Finance & Economics);
University of Essex (LL.B.) (Hons);
Inns of Court School of Law

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Testimonials

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  • ‘They have created something very unique in The Bahamas. They are impressive, talented, have an international outlook, and are a pleasure to deal with. I simply cannot rate them highly enough. You always want them on your side.’

    ‘Tara Archer-Glasgow heads up the firms litigation practice, she is impressive from the get go, and having Tara on your side makes you feel protected. Her reputation has grown massively particularly at the International Bar Association, were she is well known and respected.'

    'Audley Hanna is shaping up to be a fine lawyer.’