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