Lynda Milligan-Whyte, J.P.

The former Government Leader in the Bermuda Senate and former Minister of Legislative Affairs brings more than twenty years of legal experience (including her global network of clients and contacts) to the firm having begun her career at the Ontario Securities Commission in the early 1980s. In 1983 she joined the Corporate Department of one of the largest firms in Bermuda, Appleby, Spurling & Kempe. In 1988, Lynda became the Senior Partner of Milligan-Whyte & Smith, a position she held for fifteen years.

Lynda brings over 20 years of legal, political and business experience to the firm having been called to the Ontario Bar in 1981 and the Bermuda Bar in 1983. She specializes in corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on corporate finance, trust law, insurance and corporate/commercial law. Lynda is a graduate of Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada having successfully completed four degrees at that institution (B.A., B.Ed., M.P.A. and LL.B.).Lynda also served on the Board of Trustees of Queen’s University for several years before being appointed to the Bermuda Senate by the Premier of Bermuda in 1986.

Lynda served as the Government Leader of the Senate and Minister of Legislative Affairs up to 1997. She was also appointed as one of the first independent Directors of The Bermuda Stock Exchange and served as a Director of The Bermuda Electric Light Company, The Bermuda Broadcasting Company, Matheson Investment Management (Bermuda) Limited and several other public companies in Bermuda.

Presently, she serves as Co-Chairman of the World E-Commerce Exchange, the first e-commerce contracts’ exchange established by Private Act in Bermuda.

She has also authored several publications on Bermuda law during her career and serves as Editor of The Bermuda Bar Review and Bermuda Editor of Offshore Investment Magazine.

Contact:   lmw@richmond.bm