Dr. Peter Maynard, Senior Partner of Peter D. Maynard, Counsel & Attorneys, is highly regarded in the fields of business law, international commercial arbitration, mediation, litigation, human rights and asset tracing and recovery. He has practiced for 45 years a lawyer, an arbitrator and arbitration counsel. He is the President of the 56 jurisdiction Commonwealth Lawyers Association www.commonwealthlawyers.com, and the founder of the ADR and Investment Summit: Latin America and Other Emerging Markets.
His bio includes: He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, Chair of the International and Western Hemisphere Arbitration Adjudication and Mediation Center (IWHAAM); Former member of the Latin American and Caribbean Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Fellow and Former Chair of the Bahamas Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and sole, presiding and party-appointed arbitrator, counsel or adviser in domestic and international commercial arbitrations (ad hoc, LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL) relating to, inter alia, banking, construction, financial services, hotels, labor, maritime, provident funds, resorts, tourism and trusts. He is also a University of The Bahamas professor of Arbitration.
He was acting Bahamas Supreme Court Justice, well known for implementing efficient case management, dealing with cases without delay, and completely eliminating the preexisting backlog of civil and commercial cases for Freeport and the Northern Region of the Supreme Court for which he was responsible. He holds an Honours Bachelors degree (McGill University), two Masters degrees and a PhD, including an LL.M. from Cambridge University, England and a PhD. In international law from Johns Hopkins. He also attended the Sorbonne, Paris and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He is a member of Gray’s Inn, London, and has been called to the Bar in several jurisdictions including England and Wales, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, and pro hac vice the Turks and Caicos Islands. As a public service, he was for about six years the Head of the Law Department of the University of The Bahamas, and has taught and practiced in almost every field of law during his 45 years in the profession, ranging from contract to constitutional law and from tort law to civil procedure. He was formerly a law lecturer at other institutions such as the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) and the Eugene Dupuch Law School (Nassau). He was the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Court of Justice. Before becoming a lawyer, he was briefly an economist at the United Nations, New York, and later a diplomat there.He was Legal Adviser, Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C., President of the Bahamas Bar Association and of the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, and National President for the Bahamas of the World Jurist Association.He has published over 100 law articles, some of which appear on this website.
