Company, Corporate, and Commercial Law
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald provides expert advice and assistance to private individual and institutional clients on the formation, maintenance, administration, and management of private, public, hybrid, segregated accounts, and protected cell companies, which include, but is not limited to, obtaining business and shop licences, and the registration of business and trade names. Our law chambers also provides competent legal advice on the registration of trademarks, copyright, patents, and assists clients with intellectual property matters involving copyright and trademark infringement.
Our law chambers provides highly-specialised advice on local and international business and corporate transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, loan agreements, debentures, debt financing arrangements, and venture capital financing, for international and local commercial banking and financial institutions.
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald is also experienced in the formation and establishment of resident banks, trust and insurance companies, and securities brokerage firms, inclusive of the relevant legal and regulatory compliance issues for their establishment and maintenance in The Bahamas. Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald also provides legal advice, guidance, and assistance in all immigration matters involving work permits, the registration of foreign acquisition of land in The Bahamas, permanent residency, annual permits, and other investment projects in The Bahamas.
Investment Funds, Securities, and Financial Services
Our law chambers has the experience and commercial awareness to provide client-focused and results-oriented advice on the legal structuring, regulatory requirements, compliance, and overall administration of investment funds, offshore annuities, and securities in The Bahamas.
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald works interdependently with investment fund administrators, principals, and operators of investment funds, and their counterparties in drafting the fund's Private Offering Memorandum and other constitutive documents; the facilitation of the registration and licensing of investment funds with the Securities Commission of The Bahamas; and the provision of expert legal and operational advice and assistance on the administration, management, and legal and regulatory compliance of investment funds in The Bahamas.
With a growing securities industry and the emergence of an economically-viable securities market in The Bahamas, our law chambers is experienced and highly competent in providing legal services to local and international institutional clients including both private and public companies. Our Chambers can also assist in the registration and listing of investment funds and securities on the Bahamas International Stock Exchange (BISX), the legal and regulatory requirements for the establishment of brokerage firms, and broker-dealers, the provision of legal advice, guidance, and overall assistance in Initial Public Offerings (IPO), and overall advice on the legal requirements on purchasing, selling, and investing in securities in The Bahamas and internationally.
E-Commerce
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald offers highly-specialized legal advice and expertise to local and international businesses, e-entrepreneurs, and internet service providers on legal and compliance issues involving or related to data protection, electronic signatures, electronic communications and contracts, and Internet law generally, under the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2003, the Data Protection (Privacy of Personal Information) Act, 2003, the Computer Misuse Act, 2003.
Conveyancing and Mortgages
Our law chambers assists both lending institutions and corporate and private clients on legal matters involving the purchase and sale of real and commercial property in The Bahamas. Our legal services in property matters include legal advice on and the review and preparation of conveyances, mortgages, residential and commercial leases, condominium and time-share development, commercial and residential acquisitions, and the sale, transfer, and purchase of real property in The Bahamas by foreign investors.
Trusts and Foundations
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald provides highly-competent advice and assistance in preparation and establishment of fixed, discretionary, and purpose trusts for local and international private and institutional clients. Our law chambers also assist clients in the establishment, administration, strategy, operation, and compliance of common-law foundations for charitable, estate planning, and business purposes, under the Foundations Act, 2004.
Estate Planning
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald has the experience and expertise to provide sound legal advice on individual and philanthropic estate-planning issues affecting both local and international clients. This expertise involves consultation on and the vetting and drafting of wills, codicils, and other testamentary documents, advice on the inheritance laws of The Bahamas under the Inheritance Act, 2002, and the facilitation of important tax planning advice and assistance by international professional tax planners and legal practitioners, where applicable.
Our Chambers may also assist the client with contentious and non-contentious probate matters, letters of administration, the resealing of foreign wills, the registration of citations and caveats, and general probate searches.