Simone practices in all areas of commercial litigation. Most of her work is based on instructions by banks, insurance companies, local companies, financial service providers and international commercial enterprises (corporations, accounting firms, foreign law firms).

Her principal area of practice involves complex commercial disputes, insurance disputes involving a wide range of policies including financial loss and guarantee insurance, insolvency issues (local and cross border) including determination of the priority of claimants and recovery of assets for the liquidators, insurance and reinsurance issues including non-disclosure, misrepresentation and exclusion clauses; construction disputes and real estate disputes.

Her other areas of practice involve acting as corporate counsel to companies, drafting for businesses and individuals in the areas of banking, commercial contracts, financial services and franchise agreements; conveyancing, ADR and arbitration hearings.

EDUCATION

BA in Pre-Law (minor in Political Science) (1988 Barry University, Miami, Florida USA); J.D. (1992 Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C. USA); LLM in International Business Law (1993 Manchester University, UK); Judicial Clerkship (Judge Sidney B. Shapiro, Miami, Florida USA); and CLE (1997 University of The West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica W.I.)

MEMBERSHIP

Professional Memberships

Bahamian Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, Jamaican Bar Association and Member of the Bahamas Financial Services Board Ebusiness Working Group Committee

Publications/Seminars

Contributor to the 1991 annual legislative publication produced by the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, American Bar Association, Washington, D.C. USA; Author of Insider Trading: International Regulation of Multinational Corporations (published in 1993)

Author of “What is the true currency of your Foreign Judgment” (MB&H Perspectives Vol. 1 Issue 2)

Co-Author (with Brian Moree) of ___, The World Reports

Keynote speaker regarding Financial and Corporate Service Providers Act 2000 at the Spring 2001 MBH Seminar