Mr. Colin A. Jupp serves as Partner at Peter D. Maynard Counsel and Attorneys and Chair of the Firm’s Family, Trusts and Estates Practice Group. He regularly advises corporate and individual clients with Wills, Trusts, Foundations and other estate planning tools as well as Grants of Probate, Letters of Administration and Grants of Resealing in The Bahamas. His practice area also involves trust, probate and family matters involving multiple jurisdictions and the enforcement of foreign judgments, as well as arbitration and real estate matters, at all levels of the Courts of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
He was called to the Bar of England and Wales and The Bahamas Bar in 2008. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Double Honors, from King’s College London, at the University of Western Ontario, an LLB Degree with Upper Second-Class Honours and an AKC (Associate of King’s College), for completing his Law and Theological Studies, as well as an LLM with Merit, in Banking and Finance and Law, from King’s College London at the University of London, England. He successfully completed his Bar Vocational Training at the Inns of Court School of Law in London, England. Furthermore, he is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ACIArb.
He is a lecturer at Omega College, Nassau Bahamas, in Business and Labour Law. He has co-authored several articles which have been published in leading journals including ‘Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts Issue 33’, ‘Oxford Journals’ Trust and Trustees, 2011′, and The Journal of International Tax, Trust and Corporate Planning Issue 2 Vol. 18, 2011 among others.
He serves as a member of the ICC Fraudnet, the Commonwealth Lawyer’s Association and the International Bar Association. He is also a member of The Rotary Club of South East Nassau where he is a Paul Harris Fellow, former Chair of the Youth and Literacy Committee, and the current Director of the Health and Wellness Committee. With a passion for legal aid, Mr. Jupp regularly conducts pro bono legal clinics on Wills and Estate Planning and is a promoter of Arbitration regionally and has been an organizer of the Arbitration and Investment Summit hosted by Peter D. Maynard Counsel and Attorneys over the past decade.
In his spare time he enjoys reading philosophy, playing basketball, squash, swimming and traveling.