BeesMont Law Barristers and Attorneys

Bourn is a Senior Corporate Counsel in the corporate and commercial practice at BeesMont Law Limited.  He advises on a wide range of local and international corporate and regulatory matters, with experience in banking and finance, debt capital markets, trustee practice, trade finance, Islamic finance, investment funds, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and structuring transactions.

Bourn’s practice has a particular emphasis on digital asset businesses and structures, including advising in relation to establishment and licensing of digital asset businesses in Bermuda.

Before joining BeesMont, Bourn gained experience working in several overseas jurisdictions including England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Russian Federation.

Education

University of New South Wales (Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce)

College of Law, New South Wales (Diploma of Legal Practice)

College of Law, London (Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test)

Gretchen is a Bermuda and UK (non-practicing) qualified barrister and the Head of Regulatory & Governance at BeesMont Law

Gretchen works closely with our Corporate attorneys to advise commercial organisations on Bermuda regulatory considerations as well transactional employment and privacy issues arising from mergers & acquisitions, business re-organisations and strategic planning.

Her diverse practice emphasises policy and legal solutions to build commercial resilience and achieve strategic outcomes for Bermuda organisations. Her work includes advising on the alignment of compliance programmes with technology and Bermuda law, such as the Bribery Act, Personal Information Protection Act and Bermuda’s access to information regime, the Public Access to Information Act 2010. She provides advice and representation in connection with regulatory and statutory compliance, administrative decision making and processes, statutory interpretation, and legal reform. She also advises clients on their interactions with Bermuda Government departments and independent supervisory regulators.

Gretchen has experience advising the public sector on non-contentious issues arising from employment in Bermuda including human rights, employee privacy, immigration and benefits claims as well as compliance with and interpretation of establishing statute, Financial Instructions and Ministerial Directions.

Prior to joining BeesMont in January 2017, Gretchen was an attorney at an international offshore law firm in Bermuda and represented clients in employment & tortious claims, estate and debt collection matters in Bermuda’s Magistrates Court, Supreme Court and Employment Tribunal.

Community & Industry Engagement

Gretchen is the Chair of the Bermuda Bar Sub-Committee for the Advancement of Privacy Law and Appropriate Regulation of the Legal Industry (2019 – present) and a Co-Chair of the Bermuda KnowledgeNet Chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) (2020-present).

In 2022, she was nominated as a Bursary Awardee for the IAPP Global Privacy Summit Conference in Washington DC for her work in the privacy sphere. She was further identified in 2022 as a 50 for the Next 50 Honoree from her alma mater, Williston Northampton, for her leadership as a “woman defining the future”. In 2023, she successfully obtained a Professional Legal Education Certificate in Negotiating and Drafting IT Agreements from York University, Osgoode Hall School of Law.

Admissions

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, August 2011
Barrister, Bar of England & Wales, July 2013 (non-practising)
Barrister & Attorney, Bar of Bermuda, October 2013
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,(ACIArb), January 2015
Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths, Bermuda.

Education
University of Buckingham (LLB, Bachelor of Laws)
University of Nottingham (LLM, International Commercial Law with Distinction)
City University London, The City Law School (Bar Professional Training Course)

Association Memberships
Member of Bermuda Human Resources Association
Former Council Member of the Architects Registration Council (2016-2018)

In January 2023, Gretchen Tucker was appointed to the position of Chief Risk Officer and shares joint responsibility for Corporate Strategy with the Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer.

Her executive leadership combines her legal experience advising on organisational governance with her passionate for creating cultures where risk management is ingrained in the attitudes, values, and behaviours of individuals. Gretchen is responsible for designing and implementing controls, policies and protocols for BeesMont Law to support regulatory compliance, outsourcing, talent management, digital communications and community partnerships. She is further responsible for the supervision of the Junior Compliance & Projects Officer in connection with the development of the firm’s privacy programme and various compliance initiatives.

Gretchen holds a certification in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: Cultural Competence Skills for Legal Professionals from York University, Osgoode Hall School of Law and has previously served as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer with executive level oversight for the BeesMont Law business standards of equity, diversity and inclusion.

Peter is an active litigator before the Bermuda courts. He has appeared regularly before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and specialist tribunals, and has also appeared before the Privy Council in London.

He adds value for clients through a dynamic approach of finding angles that others may have missed, an in-depth understanding of the sometimes obscure sources underpinning Bermuda’s laws, and a strategic focus on procedural rules and costs mitigation. With this approach, he has been able to build a client base across various areas of law, and has been involved with landmark precedents for the interpretation of the law, as reported in international publications such as Law Reports of the Commonwealth and West Indian Reports.

Peter has been appointed as an arbitrator or mediator in various matters. He has sat on a panel tasked to hear a major dispute between the Government of Bermuda and unions for the entire public service. He has also been instructed to provide expert evidence of Bermuda law for foreign proceedings.

Education:

Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent) – BPP Law School, UK

Graduate Diploma in Law – BPP Law School, UK

BA (1st) – University of York, UK

Peter was called to the Bermuda Bar in 2011

Simon’s practice covers all areas of local residential and commercial property law, including in particular: residential and commercial sales and purchases (both freehold and leasehold); residential and commercial leases; mortgages and structured lending; and condominium development.

In Bermuda, Simon’s previous experience includes working as a Senior Associate at another Bermuda law firm, in the property, trusts and estates team. Prior to moving to Bermuda in 2005, Simon worked as a real estate solicitor in the UK, covering an equally wide range of property work.

Simon was enrolled as a Barrister and Attorney in the Supreme Court of Bermuda in 2008. He was admitted as a Solicitor (not currently practising) of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1999 and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Outside work, Simon’s passions include rebuilding classic cars, property development and riding his cherished Harley Davidson.

Education
Diploma in Legal Practice (Commendation) – University of Bristol, England
LLB (Hons) – Coventry University, England

Sharon is the founder of the BeesMont Group and CEO of BeesMont Law Limited. She practices in all areas of corporate and commercial law with particular expertise in investment funds, structured finance, joint venture structures and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to establishing the BeesMont Group, Sharon spent the first eight years of her professional practice with Linklaters (in London & Hong Kong) where she worked primarily in the fields of commercial property, banking and capital market and banking transactions; after a sabbatical involving cycling from England to the Near East, she worked with Denys Reitz in South Africa, advising on corporate cross-border transactions. Sharon then moved to Bermuda where she was the head of banking at one of the then leading Bermuda law firms. In 1997 she co-founded the original ISIS Group which included the ISIS Foundation now known as Adara Foundation, an international non-profit, which seeks to improve the lives of children and their families in Nepal and Uganda. Sharon was also one of the founders of IKONIC Fund Services Ltd., a licensed Bermuda fund administrator, now owned by the Artex Group.

Since 1992, when Sharon commenced her law practice in Bermuda, she has developed a recognised investment fund practice, particularly with respect to infrastructure and alternative fund strategies. She has also advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions including domestic and international M&A and joint ventures, general corporate governance issues and more recently digital asset business.

Sharon is a former Director of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, a member of the Asset Management Group, a committee of the Bermuda Business Development Agency (having previously chaired a Bermuda investment funds industry committee), a member of the AIMA chapter in Bermuda and has served on numerous other voluntary business groups in Bermuda. Sharon is also a member of the BSX Listing Committee. She has additionally written numerous articles and participated in a variety of conference panels both in Bermuda and overseas.

Sharon is a director of the publicly traded Enstar Group Limited and The China ‘A’ Fund Limited and a number of privately owned companies.

Education
LLM (2:1) – Cambridge University
BA (2:1) (Hons) – University of Westminster

Sharon was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales and Hong Kong and was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1993.

Sharon is the founder of the BeesMont Group and CEO of BeesMont Law Limited. She practices in all areas of corporate and commercial law with particular expertise in investment funds, structured finance, joint venture structures and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to establishing the BeesMont Group, Sharon spent the first eight years of her professional practice with Linklaters (in London & Hong Kong) where she worked primarily in the fields of commercial property, banking and capital market and banking transactions; after a sabbatical involving cycling from England to the Near East, she worked with Denys Reitz in South Africa, advising on corporate cross-border transactions. Sharon then moved to Bermuda where she was the head of banking at one of the then leading Bermuda law firms. In 1997 she co-founded the original ISIS Group which included the ISIS Foundation now known as Adara Foundation, an international non-profit, which seeks to improve the lives of children and their families in Nepal and Uganda. Sharon was also one of the founders of IKONIC Fund Services Ltd., a licensed Bermuda fund administrator, now owned by the Artex Group.

Since 1992, when Sharon commenced her law practice in Bermuda, she has developed a recognised investment fund practice, particularly with respect to infrastructure and alternative fund strategies. She has also advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions including domestic and international M&A and joint ventures, general corporate governance issues and more recently digital asset business.

Sharon is a former Director of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, a member of the Asset Management Group, a committee of the Bermuda Business Development Agency (having previously chaired a Bermuda investment funds industry committee), a member of the AIMA chapter in Bermuda and has served on numerous other voluntary business groups in Bermuda. Sharon is also a member of the BSX Listing Committee. She has additionally written numerous articles and participated in a variety of conference panels both in Bermuda and overseas.

Sharon is a director of the publicly traded Enstar Group Limited and The China ‘A’ Fund Limited and a number of privately owned companies.

Education
LLM (2:1) – Cambridge University
BA (2:1) (Hons) – University of Westminster

Sharon was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales and Hong Kong and was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1993.