Practice
Areas
We appreciate that clients involved in commercial litigation and arbitration have a great need for timely service and advice that is centred on business efficacy. In this area of our practice, we have been involved in handling:
- Applications for interim relief to include injunctions
- Contracts for Building Works
- Contracts for Engineering Works
- Development and Lease Development Agreements
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Joint venture and other forms of collaboration agreements
- The purchase and sale of commodities
- The construction and performance of business documents and contracts
- Shareholder rights
This aspect of our practice is wide-ranging and involves representation of clients from the most rural parts of Jamaica to the most sophisticated entrepreneur and organizations. We have been and are involved in litigation concerning the defence and prosecution of claims concerning:
- Agreements for Sale of Land
- Adverse Possession of Land
- Administrative Law
- Contracts
- Custody
- Debt Collection
- Defamation
- Divorce
- Employment
- Enforcement of Judgements
- Family Law
- Judicial Review
- Insurance
- Leases
- Maintenance of (former) spouses & children
- Partnerships
- Personal Injuries
- Property Damage
- Property Rights
- Shareholder Rights & Entitlement
We have a wealth of experience in handling real estate transactions representing local and overseas clients with a variety of needs and expectations. We have represented the very anxious first-time homeowner to the very sophisticated investor and lender. Our practice areas include the handling of:
- Applications for Change of Use of Land
- Applications for Title by Adverse Possessor/s
- Caveats against registration as well as dealing with land
- Concession Agreements
- First Registration
- Lost Title Applications
- Modification & Variation of Restrictive Covenants
- Developments and Lease Developments
- Property Purchases & Sales financed by cash, mortgage, or both or even a vendor’s mortgage
- Re-registration and rectification of boundaries
- Registration of Caveats, Mortgages & Charges
- Residential & Commercial leases
- Vesting Orders
We offer a variety of services in this area to include:
- Preparing, vetting, and negotiating corporate finance and securities instruments
- Preparing and vetting various commercial documents including
- letters of intent
- MOUs
- commercial leases
- concession agreements
- licences
- shareholders’ agreements
- partnership agreements
- joint venture agreements
- media production agreements
- investment agreements
- non disclosure agreements
- confidentiality agreements
- Preparing and registering securities to include
- promissory notes
- deeds of guarantee and indemnity
- mortgage instruments
- debentures and charges
- Preparing legal opinions on a variety of corporate and commercial matters
We recognise the need of most, if not all our private clients, to organize their affairs to deal with issues surrounding both physical and mental incapacity and, of course, death. We also know the importance of organising their affairs in such a way that, while the Revenue gets its measure, there is enough left to provide for their loved ones.
To assist our clients in the area increasingly known as Elder Law, we offer services in:
- Advising on and preparing pre-nuptial agreements
- Advising on the importance of life and health insurance
- Applications for grants of representation
- Establishing our clients as tax residents in the countries of their choice with the assistance of experts in those jurisdictions
- Guiding personal representatives in faithfully fulfilling their roles as fiduciaries
- Incorporating and maintaining International Business Companies in low or no-tax jurisdictions with the assistance of experts in those jurisdictions
- Preparing Living & Testamentary Trusts
- Preparing and processing Powers of Attorney
- Revocation of Powers of Attorney
We represent both employers and employees, always emphasizing the need for good industrial relations where worker is adequately protected, and employer can find guidance.
Our services involve:
- Representation at conciliatory meetings at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security
- Appearances before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal
- Drafting of Contracts for Services & Contracts of Service
- Advising employers on
- redundancies
- retirement procedures
- reorganizations
- reclassification exercises
- their obligations under our labour laws
- Chairing disciplinary hearings
This has been an emerging part of our practice with our focus being on:
- Advising on and registering copyrightable interests
- Carrying out trademark searches
- Registering trademarks
- Opposing the registration of trademarks
We appreciate the frustration that some of our clients normally experience having to navigate the different systems and departments of government, some of which are a must if they are to do business or tend to their legal affairs here in Jamaica, as well as their need for general information to better advise themselves as part of the decision-making process. We therefore offer ancillary services in areas of:
- Due diligence and asset checks
- Applications for copies of birth, death, and marriage certificates
- Company and business name filings
- Government Agency liaison
- Passport services
- Process Serving
- Searches for birth, death, and marriage certificates
- Rent Collection
- TRN Applications