Lennox Paton

Real Estate Resort Development  Private Client

David Johnstone heads the firm's Real Estate, Resort Development, and Private Client Groups.

He is the clear industry leader in representing resort developers in all aspects of resort development, including acquisition, financing, regulatory approvals, development, master planning and sales programmes. He has extensive regulatory experience, including drafting applications to the Bahamas Investment Authority, drafting heads of agreement, and drafting and negotiating subdivision and utility agreements with Government.

David has established himself as the go-to legal adviser in master-planning mixed-use resorts with varied residential and amenity components, including subdivisions, condominium, condohotel and timeshare components. He has structured complex condohotel programmes for homeowners’ associations, and advised on structuring golf club and marina club programmes for many of the county’s largest resorts.

Additionally, David has established himself as an expert in representing high net worth private clients in real estate acquisitions and economic permanent residency matters. He has extensive experience in secured financing transactions, construction and mezzanine financing, securitisation and residential and commercial lease transactions.

The Bahamas Bar Association Society of Trust and Estate of Practitioners (STEP)

University of British Columbia, Canada Simon Fraser University (B.B.A), Canada Admitted to the Bahamas Bar in 1988