A modern legal advisory practice built around how businesses actually operate.
Lakeshore was founded on a simple premise: businesses should be able to access experienced legal judgment without having to choose between ad hoc legal support and building a full-time internal legal department.
We provide senior legal counsel through flexible engagements, combining corporate and regulatory experience with a practical understanding of the commercial realities facing founders, executives and management teams.
Commercially focused
Legal advice should help move a decision forward. We identify the legal considerations, put risk in context and provide practical guidance on the way forward.
Flexible by design
Support is structured around what the business actually needs—whether ongoing Fractional General Counsel support or a defined corporate, regulatory, transactional or estate-related engagement.
Predictable
Fees are agreed in advance through monthly retainers or defined project/fixed-fee arrangements, providing greater certainty over legal spend.
Technology enabled
Modern tools and structured matter management support efficient delivery, while a secure client portal gives clients greater visibility into their work.
Lakera McSweeney-Russell
"Senior legal judgment should sit inside the business conversation, not beside it."
Lakera McSweeney-Russell is a Bahamian corporate and regulatory attorney with more than a decade of experience advising domestic and international clients on corporate, financial services and regulatory matters.
Her experience includes advising financial institutions, regulated businesses, investors and corporate clients on regulatory licensing, compliance, corporate governance, AML/CFT, fintech, digital assets, cross-border financings and general corporate matters. She also advises on wills, probate and estate administration, including matters involving Bahamian assets held within international estates.
In addition to her legal experience, Lakera has built and operated businesses, giving her first-hand insight into the commercial realities, operational pressures and strategic decisions faced by founders and management teams.
This combination of legal and business experience informs Lakeshore’s practical and commercially focused approach to legal advice.
She is particularly interested in the intersection of law and emerging technology and its evolving impact on business, regulation and the legal profession.
- Fractional General Counsel
- Regulatory advisory and licensing
- Corporate governance and board support
- Corporate and commercial advisory
- Domestic and cross-border financing transactions
- AML/CFT, fintech and digital assets
- Wills, probate and estate administration
- Growing businesses
- Regulated businesses
- Financial services, fintech and financial institutions
- Businesses raising capital and investors
- International businesses entering The Bahamas
- Admitted to the Bar of England & Wales
- Admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Master of Laws (LLM) in Corporate and Commercial Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
- Certificate in Blockchain Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University