Partner Emeritus
 
Address: P.O. Box 219
Eleven Albion
Cor. Dere & Albion Streets, Port of Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
Phone: 868 821 5523
Mobile: 868 389 6802
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Profile

Myrna Robinson-Walters joined the firm of M. Hamel-Smith & Co. in 1992, and has distinguished herself in the area of taxation, particularly corporate tax planning and tax litigation. 

As the In-house Tax Expert for the past 15 years, Myrna has made an extraordinary contribution to the firm.  Hamel-Smith is delighted that having attained retirement, and with her high energy and desire to pass on her unique expertise, Myrna has agreed to extend her involvement with the firm.  Thus, in November 2007, she was appointed Partner Emeritus.

Myrna is involved in preparation and review of all types of commercial agreements, company reorganizations and business sales and acquisitions, incorporation of trading companies, incorporation and securing tax exemptions for non-profit organizations and companies.

She advises corporate clients on a broad range of issues relating generally to all aspects of employment and specifically employee benefits, share option schemes, pension fund plans. In addition, she liaises with litigation attorneys who handle matters in the Trinidad & Tobago Industrial Court.
 
She has had a varied career which commenced at the Attorney-General’s Chambers in Guyana in 1967. By 1982, she held the post of Principal Legal Adviser. She then relocated to Trinidad and spent 10 years at the Board of Inland Revenue where she distinguished herself in tax litigation and as Head of the Legal Section. Whilst at the Revenue, she appeared in the Tax Appeal Board (a superior court of record with a specialized jurisdiction), the Court of Appeal, and as Junior Counsel on several occasions in the Privy Council, England - the final court of appeal for Trinidad & Tobago.

Bar Admission

United Kingdom 1965
Guyana 1967
Trinidad & Tobago 1982

Languages English, Spanish

Areas of Practice

• Agency Law
• Commercial and Contract
• Corporate and Business
• Distributorship Law
• Employee Benefits
• Employment and Labor
• Franchising
• Labor Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Pensions
• Tax Litigation
• Tax Planning
• Taxation
• Workers Compensation
   

Litigation Percentage 10%

Representative of the Government of Guyana at Caricom meeting on Offshore Banking, 1980.

Member of Guyana delegation to the Commonwealth Law Ministers' Conference in Barbados, 1980.

Bar and Professional Associations

'The Law Association of Trinidad & Tobago
The Honourable Society of Middle Temple, U.K.

Publications

Co-Author: “The Joint Venture Experience in Trinidad and Tobago, a National Report- Trinidad and Tobago”, International Joint Ventures, The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Special Issue, 2008 (Kluwer Law International 2009).

Author: "Tax Desk Book for Trinidad and Tobago," available on the Internet, http://www.trinidadlaw.com

Author: "Taxes in Trinidad & Tobago" - Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business - 1998

Past Employment Positions

1967-1981: State Counsel, Senior Legal Adviser, Principal Legal Adviser, Attorney General's Chambers, Georgetown, Guyana

1982-1992: Senior State Counsel and Head of Legal Section of the Board of Inland Revenue, Trinidad & Tobago

Education

University of London, LL.M. 1966

The Honourable Society of Middle Temple, U.K. (Utter Barrister, 1965).

University of London, LL.B. (Hons) 1964

National Institute of Higher Education of Trinidad & Tobago, Certificate in Spanish 2002