Kimika Strachan-Knowles

Kimika Strachan-Knowles is Country Leader for The Bahamas and British Virgin Islands, Private Wealth, at Intertrust (Bahamas) Limited, based in Nassau. She was recognised as the Private Wealth Advisory Expert of the Year in The Bahamas at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards, an accolade that reflects her standing in one of the Caribbean's most established international financial centres and her role leading the firm's private wealth offering across two jurisdictions.

Intertrust operates as part of a global corporate and fiduciary services group, delivering tailored corporate, fund, capital market and private wealth services to companies, institutions and private clients across the world's principal financial hubs. From its Bahamian office, the business supports high-net-worth individuals and families with the structures and administration that underpin long-term wealth planning, including trust services, private banking and trust support, and estate planning. The Bahamas is a long-standing jurisdiction for such work, valued for its established legal framework, professional infrastructure and range of wealth-holding vehicles.

As Country Leader for private wealth, Strachan-Knowles is responsible for the firm's fiduciary and wealth-structuring activity in The Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands, two of the Caribbean's most prominent centres for cross-border private client work. Her remit spans the administration of trusts and related structures, client relationship management, and the coordination of services that help internationally mobile families hold, protect and transfer assets across generations. The role calls for close attention to governance, regulatory compliance and the confidentiality that private clients expect.

Private wealth advisory of this kind sits at the intersection of law, tax planning, accounting and administration. Practitioners in the field work alongside a client's own advisers to design and operate fiduciary structures that suit the family's circumstances, whether the objective is succession planning, asset protection, philanthropy or the orderly management of business interests held offshore. Delivering that service in a jurisdiction such as The Bahamas requires both technical command of the local framework and an understanding of the international rules that increasingly shape cross-border wealth management.

The Private Wealth Advisory Expert of the Year in The Bahamas award places Strachan-Knowles among the individual advisers acknowledged by the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards for their contribution to the private client and fiduciary sector. The recognition highlights both her leadership of Intertrust's Bahamian private wealth practice and the continuing importance of the jurisdiction to families and institutions seeking a stable, well-regulated base for their affairs.