Managing Partner
 
Address: P.O. Box 219
Eleven Albion
Cor. Dere & Albion Streets
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Phone:  868 821 5511  
Mobile:  868 384 6856
Email: send email 

Profile

Philip Hamel-Smith is the Managing Partner at M. Hamel-Smith & Co. He specializes in international business transactions and Investment Syndication Law. He has extensive experience in these areas and encourages companies to set up business operations locally by recommending the appropriate organizational structures to ensure their commercial viability.

Mr. Hamel-Smith is a former Government Senator and served as Vice President of the Senate over the period 1995-2000. In this capacity, he actively participated in drafting and amending legislation pertaining to Trinidad & Tobago, and served as a member of the Government’s Legislative Review Committee. He is the Author of: Financial Systems in Trinidad & Tobago (Euromoney Publications. 1991.)

Mr. Hamel-Smith is also a member of the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Law Society (United Kingdom). He is currently a Director on several local Corporate Boards, and has served as a Director of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading Association of Independent Law Firms. He is also an External Examiner on Business Law for The University of the West Indies (Institute of Business).

Bar Admission

Admitted to Practice 1971, Trinidad & Tobago, and England, U.K.
Member of The Law Association of Trinidad & Tobago, The Law Society (United Kingdom); International Bar Association; American Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Administrative
• Commercial and Contract
• Copyright
• Financial Services
• Foreign Investment
• Intellectual Property
• International
• Joint Ventures
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Oil & Gas
• Syndication
• Trademarks 

Bar and Professional Associations

• Past Director of Lex Mundi representing the Central and Caribbean region.
• Director of American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad & Tobago.
  Member of American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago;
• Lex Mundi (College of Mediators);
• Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce;
• Trinidad & Tobago Manufacturers' Association.

Publications

Author of "Financial Systems in Trinidad & Tobago," Euromoney Publications, 1991;
"Trinidad & Tobago a Place to Invest" and "Investment in the Trinidad & Tobago Energy Sector," - Investors Guide to Trinidad & Tobago - available on the Internet at http://www.trinidadlaw.com

Seminars

"Hospitality, Tourism & Resort Development: Legal and Business Trends in the Caribbean" - August 2002, Caribbean Law Conference - Bahamas