Legal and Corporate services

Our diverse legal team is fully integrated with our client teams, combining disciplines to deliver holistic, business focused advice.

Our team works seamlessly with their Assurance, Tax, Transactions and Advisory colleagues to provide comprehensive, business services to clients. We approach projects collaboratively, listening first to gain a deep understanding of project objectives, and focus on integrated advice and delivery, whether from a legal, tax or accounting perspective – or the combination that best suits you.

We are an integrated Caribbean professional service firm and focus on providing practical, workable proposals, whether in one or many countries.

We boast a diverse team of lawyers working with Dawgen Advisors, our clients and other stakeholders.

To support our clients’ day-to-day and strategic business needs, our diverse team of commercial lawyers provides legal advice throughout a business’ life cycle. This ranges from producing, developing, buying and selling goods and services, to entering new markets, protecting and exploiting intangible rights, assessing the impact of legislative and market changes on business practices, regulatory compliance and ethical business practices.

We work seamlessly with our colleagues as ONE Team, bringing strong business acumen and blending a mix of professional services to cover the range of issues that can arise in commercial transactions, and helping clients making the most of today’s business opportunities.

What areas do we cover?

We provide legal advice and prepare contracts to enable clients to secure raw materials, production assets and their routes to market, at home and overseas, with advice on contractual arrangements with customers, suppliers, distributors, agents, franchisees and other trading parties

• We work with clients to evaluate and implement efficient supply chain operations using intra-group, third party or joint venture arrangements
• We enable clients to optimise their e-commerce strategy and provide a secure and legally compliant online selling function with advice on UK and EU regulation, contractual terms of business, privacy policies and competition advice
• We help clients secure their IT requirements to underpin back and front office operations with advice on hardware and software procurement and use, servicing and maintenance contracts

We provide legal advice to clients who are looking to set up new companies/starting business operations in the Caribbean, advising them on aspects such as setting up subsidiaries or branches, which helps support their growth agenda.

Our experienced team of lawyers have full legal capability to advise on most aspects of corporate reorganisations, understanding the complexity and challenges our clients face.

Our multi-disciplinary approach means our lawyers are coordinated across law, tax, accounting and advisory, so our clients work with ONE Integrated Team.

• Corporate Reorganisations: we provide detailed step plans, due diligence, document drafting, project management, and preparation of closing agendas and post completion filings
• We provide legal advice, from proof of concept to feasibility, to design and implementation.

Our lawyers have experience providing legal advice on single step projects, such as reductions of capital, loan waivers and distributions, up to complex restructuring projects such as pre- and post-deal reorganisations, new holding companies, hybrid re-financings, jurisdiction transfers, legal entity reduction, single entity structures, supply chain rationalisation and BEPS implementation.

Our team is made up of employment lawyers with an in-depth knowledge of employment-related issues. In addition to our legal know-how, our lawyers are recognised for their commercial focus and ability to accommodate genuine business needs when delivering legal solutions.

Sitting within Dawgen Global professional services firm, our lawyers work with complementary teams in immigration, payroll, pensions and HR advisory. This means our advice is set in a wider context of employment services to better meet our client’s business needs.

By linking our lawyers with experienced professionals from across our various Caribbean offices, we combine a knowledge of local employment law with strategic insight into how organisations operate within the wider Caribbean.

Our Risk Management and Regulatory Financial Services lawyers work across sectors and jurisdictions to provide advice on a range of regulatory and compliance issues. With experienced lawyers, we have a deep knowledge and understanding of both the regulations themselves and the regulators who devise and enforce them.

Our practice delivers a seamless service, providing clients with practical and commercial advice about the impact of regulation on their business and dealings with regulators. We cover the full range of regulatory issues that clients may face, on a multi-jurisdictional basis. Key sectors of focus include investment banking, securities, asset management, retail banking and payment services and insurance.

Working with our colleagues, we provide a holistic viewpoint; building legal advice into solutions at the outset and providing a connection between multiple advisors.

We provide contextualised financial services regulatory advice tailored to our client’s needs, using a team of experienced regulatory lawyers. We advise clients on the practical and commercial impact of regulation on their business and in their dealings with regulators.

We advise clients on how to define legal risk for their organisation, diagnosing and mitigating the legal risks present in a business and implementing effective legal risk controls to guard against future loss.

Working with our Managed Services team, our legal team can offer a low-cost solution to volume contract remediation and ‘business as usual’ processes. We can also provide full or partial outsourcing of people, processes and systems.

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