Sean McWeeney, QC

smcw@gtclaw.com
Tel: 242-322-4130
Fax: 242-328-1069

Sassoon House

Shirley St. & Victoria Ave.
P. O. Box N-272
Nassau, Bahamas

Practice Area

• Trusts, Estates & Private Clients
• Banking & Finance

Admissions

• Bahamas, 1978
• Admitted to the Inner Bar as Queen's Counsel, Oct. 2009

Memberships

• Bahamas Bar Association
• Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Articles

• The Effectiveness of Statutory Provisions Outlawing Forced Heirship Claims

• Stamp Duty Amendments

• Protectors and Trust Disputes

Sean McWeeney is a leading lawyer in the IFLR1000

Sean McWeeney QC, a partner of the firm since 1986, is a specialist in trusts, corporate restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, and bank regulatory law.  He is widely acknowledged as the leading expert in The Bahamas on the law relating to stamp duty, the second major source of revenue in The Bahamas.

A member of the Bahamas Bar since March 1978, Sean served as Attorney General of The Bahamas from January 1989 to August 1992.  He also served as a Senator from 1985 to 1992 and as Leader of the Government in the Senate in the latter part of his parliamentary tenure. 

During his time as Attorney General the company laws of the Bahamas were modernized with the introduction of the International Companies Act and the Companies Act .  Similarly, important new additions to the trust legislation of The Bahamas were introduced as well.

In April 2000 Sean was appointed Chairman of the first Judicial Review Commission to review the terms and conditions of service of Supreme Court and Appellate Court judges.  Later in the same year, he was appointed Chairman of the Steering and Implementation Committees for the re-structuring and modernization of the Royal Bahamas Police Force

In May 2002, Sean was appointed the Chairman of the Transition Team to co-ordinate the setting up of the new government and to advise on important policy matters.  He was subsequently appointed a member of the National Security Council of The Bahamas, Chairman of the Clifton Heritage Authority and Chairman of a newly constituted Judicial Review Commission.

In 1998, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Bahamian Independence, the government of The Bahamas awarded Sean the Silver Jubilee Medal for “Outstanding Contribution to National Development in the Area of Law”.  In 2009, Sean was appointed one of Her Majesty’s Counsel (Queen’s Counsel).

Sean McWeeney QC has been named on Citywealth Offshore Leaders List for two years running -2010 and 2011- as one of the Caribbean's leading lawyers in wealth management