5 Stone Buildings Caribbean is chambers’ base in the Bahamas opened in 2024. We also have operating facilities in Cayman and the British Virgin islands, all together reflecting our significant offshore presence.

Chambers’ offices in Nassau allow members to offer conference facilities locally and provide a dedicated working space for those instructed to advise or litigate in the Bahamas and across the Caribbean region.

Members regularly advise and have appeared in the Courts of the Bahamas, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis and Bermuda, as well as the Privy Council in the UK, which acts as the highest court of appeal for many of those jurisdictions.

Matthew Paton, a tenant of Chambers, is called to the Bahamas bar with full rights of audience and practices from both chambers’ London and Nassau premises. Matthew has a thriving international private client practice and is ranked as a Leading Individual in Private Client: Trust & Probate and Offshore by Legal 500. He is also Top Ranked in Chambers & Partners UK Bar for Offshore and Trusts, and Chambers Global. He has also been nominated by his peers to Private Client Global Elite status.

Matthew's focus is on trusts and estates, and all related company matters. He also has considerable experience in insolvency and restructuring (particularly cross-border issues), and civil fraud. He holds rights of audience and appears in the higher courts in the UK, The Bahamas, BVI, and Cayman, including the Privy Council.

Matthew has also advised on matters arising from Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, and more recently St Kitts & Nevis and Grenada. He has also been called upon as an expert on Bahamian law in the English and US courts.