Judy Whitehead KC, is the firm’s Managing Partner. She oversees the firm’s operations, providing leadership of the firm’s strategic direction.

Formerly a Litigation Partner, with a concentration on family law, her work now focuses on advising special clients, mainly the firm’s high net worth private clients, and negotiations with the Government on large investment projects.

Recent engagements include:

• Negotiating a prenuptial contract involving assets in multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead Counsel in a multimillion dollar contentious divorce involving assets in multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead counsel to Bahamas based Family Office for international family.
• Lead counsel to numerous international families involving succession and philanthropic planning including the creation and operation of trust and corporate structuring.

Bar Admissions

• The Bahamas Bar, 1982

Education
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Appointed one of His Majesty’s Counsel (King’s Counsel), January 2023

Bahamas Bar Association

International Bar Association

"Trends in the Industry", Bahamas Financial Services Board Seminar, 2009

"Banking Practice and Procedures", Bank of the Bahamas Seminar, 2009

"Doing Business in Today’s Regulatory Environment", International Trust and Tax Planning Summit Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, 2009