International Tax Awards 2015
tax law firm of the year – barbados
Meridian Law Name: Dawn A. Williams, LL.B., M.B.A. Principal Email: daw@meridianlawbb.com Web: www.meridianlawbb.com Address: Ashton House, Strathclyde, St. Michael BB 11077 Barbados West Indies
Phone: + (246) 431-6677
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eridian Law is a commercial law firm in the Caribbean. Meridian Principal Dawn A Williams spoke to us about how the firm provides a practical, forward thinking, and strategic approach when dealing with clients’ concerns.
Based in Barbados, we have a global reach through legal networks. The firm’s focus areas of practice are primarily corporate, commercial and international finance and tax law. We provide legal services to private clients and both local and international corporate clients in all sectors. Although we are situated in the Caribbean, the firm has developed substantial experience internationally. Representing Meridian Law, I am a member of the International Tax Planning Association (ITPA), a speaker at Euromoney/ Latin Finance and local and regional conferences, as well as a contributor in international publications. Our services include advising on structuring, company and entity formations. These facilities are mainly provided for international business, employee issues, tax both internationally and locally, immigration, trusts, special purpose vehicles, intellectual property, real estate transactions, debt and equity financing, restructurings, as well as cross border and securities transactions. All of these services involve our lawyers working together in cross-disciplinary groups. With these set of skills, we also provide consulting services to companies in various industries looking to do business or doing business in Barbados and in the Caribbean. We assist in various stages of their development, whether it be at concept, cost-benefit analysis, or post start-up stage. To ensure the success of our clients’ business we provide practical, forward-thinking and a strategic approach to the law when faced with their issues and concerns. Our network both local and regional allows us to facilitate and find solutions for our clients’ problems. It is this wide range of services that accommodates for our diverse set of clients. Our clients include UHNWIs, European trust companies, foundations, family offices, banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, Hotels and Hotel development groups, regional and international banks, security exchanges and commissions and governments. Among the many sectors our clients are involved in, the hotel and leisure sector is where we are significantly influential. Our M&A Department has been counsel in some of the largest acquisitions in the Banking sector and largest acquisitions in the Hotel & Leisure sector for the last three years in Barbados. Another aspect of our business we are excelling in is our expanded litigation department. This department deals with multi-jurisdiction commercial litigation with over USD 1B at issue under areas such as jurisdiction, forum and governing law, complex derivatives securities litigation as well as global asset recovery cases. Additionally, the firm’s corporate department also provides secretarial and administrative services to multinational, international and local and regional companies.
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