Sean McWeeney KC, is a Consultant Counsel and Chair Emeritus of the firm's Corporate and Financial Services Practice and Private Client and Trusts Practice. He specializes in trusts and corporate law.

He represents domestic and international high net worth individuals and fiduciaries in a broad range of complex matters including trusts and estates administration and litigation and family business governance. In addition, Sean advises institutional and private families on complex corporate matters including restructurings and Bahamian tax matters. He is a recognised author on both legal and historical matters and regularly speaks at national and international conferences.

Sean has been recognised by Chambers and Partners as a top ranked attorney in two areas Chambers Global General Business Law and Chambers High Net Worth - Offshore Trusts sector. He has held the distinction of a Band 1ranking in General Business Law for twenty-four consecutive years and is today recognised by Chambers and Partners with the Senior States people ranking for General Business Law.

Described as a "sophisticated" attorney "in a class of his own", Sean has received the Band 1 ranking for the High Net Worth - Offshore Trusts sector for consecutive years to date, since the award's inception in 2017.?

Bar Admissions

• The Bahamas Bar, 1978
• The Inner Bar (Queen's Counsel), 2009

Education
Queen's College
Nassau, Bahamas

Chambers and Partners, Band 1 Attorney, Chambers Global – General Business Law (2024 and 2023)

Chambers and Partners, Leading Lawyer (Band 1), High Net Worth (HNW), Offshore Trusts Sector (2023)

Chambers and Partners, Band 1 Attorney, Chambers Global – General Business Law (2022, 2021 and 2020)

Chambers and Partners, Leading Lawyer (Band 1), High Net Worth (HNW), Offshore Trusts Sector (2022, 2021 and 2020)

Chambers and Partners, Band 1 Attorney, Chambers Global – General Business Law (2019, 2018, 2017)

Chambers and Partners, Leading Lawyer (Band 1), High Net Worth (HNW), Offshore Trusts Sector (2019, 2018, 2017)

Chambers and Partners, Band 1 Attorney, Chambers Global – General Business Law (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012)

Appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel (Queen's Counsel), 2009

Bahamas Silver Jubilee Medal for "Outstanding Contribution to National Development in the Area of Law", 1998

Citiwealth Offshore Leaders List as one of the Caribbean's leading lawyers in wealth management

The Bahamas Bar Association

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

“Financial Institutions as Constructive Trustees” (Bahamas Association of Compliance Officers, 2000)

“The Rule in Hastings-Bass - Help for Trustees Who Make Mistakes” (STEP Bahamas, 2007)

“International Asset Protection Planning and Domestic Creditor Recovery Tactics: Two Mock Trials” (STEP Canada, Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, 2008 – served as trial judge)

“The Effectiveness of Statutory Provisions Outlawing Forced Heirship Claims” (STEP Caribbean Conference, Panama, 2008)

“Trust Fundamentals – Back to Basics”, (STEP Trust Immersion Seminar, 2010)

“Protectors and Trust Disputes” (OPC Trust Law Conference, 2011)

“Getting Rid of Trusts and moving Towards Companies Limited by Guarantee Without a Share Capital as Trust Substitutes” (STEP, 2013)

“What Now? Survival and Adaptation Strategies for Offshore Financial Centres” (STEP Caribbean Conference, 2014)

• Reflections on the Reality and the Vision for Financial Services in The Bahamas

  By Sean McWeeney |September 2018

• Reflections on the Reality and the Vision for Financial Services in The Bahamas

  By Sean McWeeney |September 2018

Investment Funds Global Practice Guide, “Law and Practice” in The Bahamas [April 2019]

"Creditor Protection Trusts under Bahamian Law" (monograph, 1993)