Halsbury Chambers is a multidisciplinary, commercial law practice, established in December 2000 by Mr. W. A. Branville McCartney, a former Acting Magistrate and Civil Litigation Lawyer. The firm expanded its scope and practice of the law with the admission of Mr. Kenred M. A. Dorsett, a corporate and commercial lawyer, to the partnership of the firm, in May 2004. The firm has 6 fee earners and a thirteen member support staff.Since then, the firm has broadened its institutional and individual client base and strategically positioned itself as a client-centered, solutions-oriented, law practice with a unique commercial sensibility to the needs of sophisticated and increasingly knowledgeable, local and international clientele, who require more than traditional legal services. The areas of practice of the firm are: civil and commercial litigation, aviation law, conveyancing, real and commercial property, construction law, personal injury, divorce, matrimonial, and family law, insurance law and litigation, banking, corporate, company and commercial law, investment/mutual funds, securities, e-commerce, wills, estates and probate, trusts, international tax and estate planning, immigration, employment and industrial relations, shipping and admiralty law, copyright and trademarks, and international business transactions.HC Corporate Services Ltd., which is licensed under the Financial & Corporate Service Providers Act, 2000 (as amended), was created to provide financial and corporate services including, but not limited to, company formation and management services, nominee services, legal and compliance training, management consultancy, accounting and re-invoicing, and business advisory services.The typical clients of the firm are offshore and commercial banks and trust companies, insurance firms, mutual fund administrators, construction companies, pension funds, international corporate and commercial clients, and local and foreign individual clients.Halsbury Chambers is a member of The Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB), a collaborative group of quasi-government officials and private sector participants which promotes, and provides strategic direction to, the financial services industry, both locally and internationally.The firm is located at Halsbury Commercial Centre, Suite 1, Village Road North which is within short walking distance of some of the leading accounting firms, mutual fund administrators, and bank and trust companies in the country, and ten minutes driving distance from the main financial and commercial centre of the City of Nassau, various government, quasi-government and regulatory offices, and the Houses of Parliament.PartnersW.A. Branville McCartneyKenred M.A. Dorsett