Corporate and Financial Services
Private Clients and Trusts
Consultant Counsel

Sean McWeeney, KC

Practice

Sean McWeeney KC, is a Consultant Counsel and Chair Emeritus of the firm's Corporate and Financial Services Practice and Private Client and Trusts Practice. He specializes in trusts and corporate law.

He represents domestic and international high net worth individuals and fiduciaries in a broad range of complex matters including trusts and estates administration and litigation and family business governance. In addition, Sean advises institutional and private families on complex corporate matters including restructurings and Bahamian tax matters. He is a recognised author on both legal and historical matters and regularly speaks at national and international conferences.

Sean has been recognised by Chambers and Partners as a top ranked attorney in two areas Chambers Global General Business Law and Chambers High Net Worth – Offshore Trusts sector. He has held the distinction of a Band 1ranking in General Business Law for twenty-four consecutive years and is today recognised by Chambers and Partners with the Senior States people ranking for General Business Law.

Described as a “sophisticated” attorney “in a class of his own”, Sean has received the Band 1 ranking for the High Net Worth – Offshore Trusts sector for consecutive years to date, since the award’s inception in 2017.

Admissions

  • The Bahamas Bar
  • The Inner Bar

Service

  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the Holy See (The Vatican) 2014 to 2017.
  • Chairman, Bahamas Constitutional Commission, 2012 to 2017.
  • Chairman, Transition Team for the new Government of the Bahamas, 2012 and 2002.
  • Chairman, The Bahamas Judicial Review Commission, 2005 and 2000.
  • Member, Bahamas National Security Council, 2003 to 2007.
  • Chairman, The Clifton Heritage Authority, Bahamas, 2003 to 2007.
  • Chairman, The Steering and Implementation Committees for the Re-Structuring and Modernization of the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
  • Leader of the Government in the Bahamas Senate, 1991 to 1992.
  • Attorney General of the Bahamas, 1989 to 1992.
  • Bahamas Senator, 1985 to 1992.

Speaking Engagements

  • “Facing Realities – Fostering Solutions”, STEP Bahamas Conference, Margaritaville Beach Resort, Nassau, The Bahamas, March 2024.
  • “Leveraging Luck and Our Strengths to Make a Way for Ourselves: An Historical Perspective”, The Second Peter D. Graham Distinguished Lecture, The Lyford Cay Club, Nassau, The Bahamas, March 2023.

Publications

  • Investment Funds Global Practice Guide, “Law and Practice” in The Bahamas [April 2019]
  • “Breaching the Gates – the Civil Rights Struggle of the Bahamian Free People of Colour 1802 – 1834”[January 2018]
  • “Creditor Protection Trusts under Bahamian Law” (monograph, 1993)

Membership

  • The Bahamas Bar Association
  • Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

Office
Nassau, Bahamas
Office

Sassoon House
Shirley Street & Victoria Avenue
P. O. Box N-272
Nassau, Bahamas

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