Practice groups

"Tara attracts effusive praise from clients, who single her out as ‘a smart litigation lawyer, who is punctual, concise and well organised, with a great personality."
Legal 500 Caribbean 2024

Tara Archer-Glasgow is a Partner and Chair of the firm’s Litigation practice group and supervises the Asset Recovery Unit. She also chairs the Intellectual Property group and previously served as Co-chair of the Marketing & Business Development Committee of the firm.

Tara is a highly experienced Dispute Resolution lawyer with more than 25 years of legal experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on banking and compliance, employment, company law and admiralty law. She regularly appears as counsel or co-counsel in many important cases in all of the courts of The Bahamas and has appeared before the Privy Council in England. Tara provides legal advice to individuals, major financial service providers and global corporations regarding multi-jurisdictional litigation, shareholder disputes, fraud, asset-tracing and internal operations. She has assisted clients in the tracing and recovery of millions of dollars, and represents clients in franchise and intellectual property disputes.

Tara also has knowledge of the insolvency regime in The Bahamas having been involved with a number of cross-border insolvencies including:- Globe-X Canadiana and Globe-X Management; Americas International Bank (In Liquidation); Debtworks, Inc; Suisse Security Bank & Trust and Intraco Corporation Limited (In Official Liquidation). She has acted for a leading global financial institution in proceedings related to a composition with creditors and bankruptcy proceedings in relation to Sir Anthony Reilly and served as a member of the creditors’ committee.

Tara is recognised as “an experienced and well regarded litigator” in Chambers Global Guide (2018-2024) and recommended in Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery (2016-2023), being described as “responsive and intuitive with complex international asset tracing” and “a skilled litigator with an impressive practice”. Her peers commend her as “a highly approachable and reassuring presence for clients.” According to Client Choice, Tara provides “accurate, in-depth and well-researched feedback.” She was also listed as a ‘Leading Individual’ by Legal 500 Caribbean (2019-2024) and named as a leading litigator in the Euromoney’s Expert Guides.

Clients also speak highly of Tara, reporting that she is “client-friendly, accessible, knowledgeable, and gets the job done.”

Tara is actively involved in international legal associations and the Bahamas Bar Association. As a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), Tara serves on the editorial board of Dispute Resolution International (an IBA publication) and is the Co-Chair of the IBA Poverty and Social Development Subcommittee. She also serves on the Ethics Committee of The Bahamas Bar Association.

Tara is a former Chair of the IBA Consumer Litigation Committee and a former law lecturer at the University of The Bahamas. She is often invited to share her knowledge and experience as a speaker at international and local conferences, and to provide motivational talks to young persons, particularly young women, in the community.

Education

  • Inns of Court School of Law, London, England
  • University of Essex, LL.B. (Hons), Colchester, England
  • University of Western Ontario, B.A. – Finance & Economics, London, Ontario, Canada
  • College of The Bahamas, A.A. (Hons) – Economics, Nassau, Bahamas

Executive Training

  • Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3, MIT Sloan School of Management

Bar admissions

  • Bahamas, 1998
  • England and Wales, 1998

Professional memberships

  • International Bar Association
    • Member, Editorial board of Dispute Resolution International
    • Co-Chair, IBA Poverty and Social Development Subcommittee
    • Former Chair, IBA Consumer Litigation Committee
  • International Trademark Association
  • Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA)
  • Bahamas Bar Association
    • Member, Ethics Committee
    • Former Elected Council Member
  • Center for International Legal Studies
  • The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish (conversational)

Recognition

  • The Legal 500 Caribbean, Leading Individual (2019-2024)
  • Chambers Global, Leading Lawyer (2018-2024)
  • Who’s Who Legal – Asset Recovery (2016-2023)
  • Lexology Client Choice – Asset Recovery (2021-2024)
  • Euromoney’s Expert Guides (2020)

…recognised for her responsive & intuitive approach to complex international asset tracing & recovery actions… (Who’s Who Legal)

Publications

Tara has been an outstanding litigator; responsive, thorough and one who fully understands our business making her very valuable as an attorney.
Legal 500 Caribbean (2022)

Tara Archer-Glasgow is a Partner and Chair of the firm’s Litigation practice group and supervises the Asset Recovery Unit. She also chairs the Intellectual Property group and previously served as Co-chair of the Marketing & Business Development Committee of the firm.

Tara is a highly experienced Dispute Resolution lawyer with more than 25 years of legal experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on banking and compliance, employment, company law and admiralty law. She regularly appears as counsel or co-counsel in many important cases in all of the courts of The Bahamas and has appeared before the Privy Council in England. Tara provides legal advice to individuals, major financial service providers and global corporations regarding multi-jurisdictional litigation, shareholder disputes, fraud, asset-tracing and internal operations. She has assisted clients in the tracing and recovery of millions of dollars, and represents clients in franchise and intellectual property disputes.

Tara also has knowledge of the insolvency regime in The Bahamas having been involved with a number of cross-border insolvencies including:- Globe-X Canadiana and Globe-X Management; Americas International Bank (In Liquidation); Debtworks, Inc; Suisse Security Bank & Trust and Intraco Corporation Limited (In Official Liquidation). She has acted for a leading global financial institution in proceedings related to a composition with creditors and bankruptcy proceedings in relation to Sir Anthony Reilly and served as a member of the creditors’ committee.

Tara is recognised as “an experienced and well regarded litigator” in Chambers Global Guide (2018-2024) and recommended in Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery (2016-2023), being described as “responsive and intuitive with complex international asset tracing” and “a skilled litigator with an impressive practice”. Her peers commend her as “a highly approachable and reassuring presence for clients.” According to Client Choice, Tara provides “accurate, in-depth and well-researched feedback.” She was also listed as a ‘Leading Individual’ by Legal 500 Caribbean (2019-2024) and named as a leading litigator in the Euromoney’s Expert Guides.

Clients also speak highly of Tara, reporting that she is “client-friendly, accessible, knowledgeable, and gets the job done.”

Tara is actively involved in international legal associations and the Bahamas Bar Association. As a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), Tara serves on the editorial board of Dispute Resolution International (an IBA publication) and is the Co-Chair of the IBA Poverty and Social Development Subcommittee. She also serves on the Ethics Committee of The Bahamas Bar Association.

Tara is a former Chair of the IBA Consumer Litigation Committee and a former law lecturer at the University of The Bahamas. She is often invited to share her knowledge and experience as a speaker at international and local conferences, and to provide motivational talks to young persons, particularly young women, in the community.

Education

  • Inns of Court School of Law, London, England
  • University of Essex, LL.B. (Hons), Colchester, England
  • University of Western Ontario, B.A. – Finance & Economics, London, Ontario, Canada
  • College of The Bahamas, A.A. (Hons) – Economics, Nassau, Bahamas

Executive Training

  • Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3, MIT Sloan School of Management

Bar admissions

  • Bahamas, 1998
  • England and Wales, 1998

Professional memberships

  • International Bar Association
    • Member, Editorial board of Dispute Resolution International
    • Co-Chair, IBA Poverty and Social Development Subcommittee
    • Former Chair, IBA Consumer Litigation Committee
  • International Trademark Association
  • Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA)
  • Bahamas Bar Association
    • Member, Ethics Committee
    • Former Elected Council Member
  • Center for International Legal Studies
  • The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish (conversational)

Recognition

  • The Legal 500 Caribbean, Leading Individual (2019-2024)
  • Chambers Global, Leading Lawyer (2018-2024)
  • Who’s Who Legal – Asset Recovery (2016-2023)
  • Lexology Client Choice – Asset Recovery (2021-2024)
  • Euromoney’s Expert Guides (2020)

…recognised for her responsive & intuitive approach to complex international asset tracing & recovery actions… (Who’s Who Legal)

Publications