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Stephen M Wilson KC
Wilson Wells · Turks and Caicos Islands
Wilson Wells
Commercial Litigation · Turks and Caicos Islands
Managing Partner, Stephen M Wilson KC, was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1990 and practised successfully from chambers in London
for 11 years before moving to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in 2001.
At the London Bar, he had a general civil and commercial practice, specialising in employment law, and developed a reputation as a fearsome cross-examiner with a voracious appetite for work.
In 2012, Stephen was asked to open the new TCI office of the long-established and highly regarded Bahamian law firm of GrahamThompson, the firm’s first office outside the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. For 11 years, he was a Partner and Head of that firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the TCI.
Stephen was appointed one of His Majesty’s Counsel, Learned in the Law (King’s Counsel) in 2013, and has served as a Commissioner of the TCI Integrity Commission since 2020.
In addition, he has appeared in many of the TCI’s headline cases involving disputes in the tourism and hospitality, banking, real estate, insurance and construction/building sectors. He has a broad range of experience dealing with matters in the Banking & Finance, Corporate & Commercial, Employment & Labour, Insurance, as well as Property & Development sectors.
To date, Stephen’s Corporate & Commercial dispute resolution work has included complex corporate and commercial disputes comprising multi-jurisdictional claims, multi-party actions, international and domestic arbitrations, liquidations involving local and international parties, shareholder disputes, as well as corporate reorganisations and restructurings. He is also a leading lawyer in IP litigation in TCI.
He is recognised by the prestigious London-based Chambers and Partners directory as a top-ranked attorney in the Chambers Global, General Business Law – Dispute Resolution sector. Meanwhile, he holds the distinction of a Band 1 ranking, which is the highest individual ranking, and has done so for the past 12 years. He has been further recognised by Chambers Global with their rankings for “Foreign Expertise” and “Expertise Based Abroad” for his work in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
Recent Engagements
● Representing a Bahamian company that successfully obtained an order for the winding-up of a TCI company that is the majority shareholder of a Haitian company that owns the largest privately held commercial port in Haiti. This complex private international law dispute involves aspects of Bahamian and TCI law, as well as Haitian Civil Code that is based on the Napoleonic Code used in France;
● Advising and representing equitable receivers appointed by the High Court of England and Wales in tandem with a team of English solicitors and barristers as part of enforcement proceedings to collect a judgement debt of more than $300 million made in favour of an international bank against an ultra-high-net-worth individual, his TCI company and others.
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