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FIRM:
Milligan-Whyte & Smith is a Bermuda law firm providing legal services to
international and local clients. The firm offers a competent, creative
and unconflicted alternative to the two larger Bermuda law firms.
BERMUDA:
Bermuda is a British colony situated in the Atlantic 560 miles off the
US East Coast and 750 miles southeast of New York. The principal
industries are international business and tourism. Over 12,000
international companies, including subsidiaries of 750 of the Fortune
1000 Companies, are based in Bermuda, their operations covering a wide
spectrum of activities, including insurance, reinsurance, investments,
mutual funds, brokerage, shipping, sales, aircraft leasing, trading and
holding companies. International business is attracted to Bermuda
because of its stable economic and political environment, excellent
communications, ideal location, secure banking, legal and professional
infrastructure and tax neutrality.
Bermuda
is ideally situated between North and South America, Europe and Asia
which has helped to make Bermuda one of the world's leading offshore
financial centers.
CLIENTS:
Our
clients have included two of three Bermuda banks; countless major U.S.,
Canadian and European public corporations; parent-owned and
association-owned insurance and reinsurance companies; insurance and
reinsurance subsidiaries of major U.S. and European insurance companies;
U.S. insurance regulators; private trusts; insurance companies in
liquidation; investment fund; international trading companies;
investors; European, Canadian and US and Asian trading and holding
companies and high net worth individuals.
PHILOSOPHY:
We provide
creative and competent legal advice on the leading edge of areas in
which we specialize in an efficient and expeditious manner at a
reasonable cost. We value above all our integrity and fiduciary
duties to our clients.
EXPERTISE: The firm specializes in the following areas:
Corporate
Finance Banking and International Finance
Insurance
and Reinsurance Mutual Funds & Investment Companies
Foreign
Investment Law Foreign Sales Corporations
Trusts &
Estate Planning Shipping & Aviation Law
Telecommunication Information Technology & Intellectual
Property
Commercial & Insurance Insolvency
Litigation & Arbitration Property Law
Public
International Law Corporate Services |