Higgs & Johnson has announced that Oscar Johnson Jr, currently partner and head of litigation, has been appointed as the new managing partner of the firm effective 2 July, 2012.

He succeeds Philip Dunkley, QC, who had management responsibility of the firm from 1999-2006 and again from 2009-2012. He will remain as senior partner of the firm.

Johnson joined the firm as an associate in 1985 and became a partner in 1992.

He practices a full range of corporate and commercial law, specializing in commercial and civil litigation, merchant shipping and admiralty law, insurance, international finance and employment law. Johnson has served as a member of The Bridge Authority, St Andrew’s School Board of Directors, the Disciplinary Tribunal, the Arbitration Tribunals, and as advisor to the Nassau Tourism and Development Board.

Higgs & Johnson is headquartered in The Bahamas at Ocean Centre at Montagu, Nassau, with offices throughout The Bahamas and in the Cayman Islands.