Practice Areas
Tax

Tax

The Firm's tax practitioners advise extensively on income, corporation and petroleum taxation, the mitigation of withholding tax and the effect of the various double taxation treaty arrangements entered into between Trinidad and Tobago and other sovereign states....

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Real Estate and Land Development

Real Estate and Land Development

The Firm can track its real estate practice back to the days of Oliver Fitzwilliam & Co. which started off as a “Conveyancers and Solicitors” practice in 1919. Today, the Firm’s real estate and land development practice stands out as one of the largest and most...

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Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property

The Firm has one of the largest intellectual property practices in Trinidad and Tobago and advises its clientele on all areas of intellectual property including Patents, Copyright, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications as well as on emerging areas...

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Estates and Trusts

Estates and Trusts

The Firm has a long history of association with major trust companies in Trinidad and Tobago and has assisted in applying for grants of representation in large complicated estates involving family and charity trusts. Practitioners in this area also advise professional...

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Energy, Oil & Gas and Foreign Investment

Energy, Oil & Gas and Foreign Investment

The Firm has extensive expertise in energy and oil & gas work and it represents a substantial number of the international energy companies carrying out exploration and production work in Trinidad and Tobago, both onshore and offshore. The Firm provides advice...

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Employment and Labour

Employment and Labour

The Firm advises on all aspects of employment law ranging from the creation of the employment relationship, the attendant rights and obligations during the continuance of such relationship and upon the termination of same. Services offered during each of these phases...

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Corporate

Corporate

The Firm has a well-established corporate practice and advises international and domestic clients in all areas of corporate law, including the incorporation of local subsidiaries and the registration of foreign enterprises as external companies under the Companies...

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Commercial

Commercial

The Firm is a major full service commercial firm. A significant proportion of its clients are international corporations and financial institutions engaged in business here or doing business with Trinidad and Tobago. Major clients include those involved in petroleum...

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Banking and Finance

Banking and Finance

A core decades-old strategy of the Firm is the maintenance of a strong banking and finance expertise. From its inception the Firm acted for local institutional lenders and banks in traditional financing but following the country’s post-independence industrial...

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Advocacy, Litigation and ADR

Advocacy, Litigation and ADR

The Firm's litigation practice is one of its traditional strengths and it provides a full litigation service with its members appearing before the local courts (including the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Court of Appeal, High Court, Industrial Court, Tax...

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