Partner, Banking & Finance Practice Group 
Address: P.O. Box 219
Eleven Albion
Cor. Dere & Albion Streets, Port of Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
Phone: 868 821 5510
Mobile: 868 389 6803
Email: send email
Profile
Glenn’s core practice is in the corporate and commercial areas of law, focusing in particular on bank finance and regulation, project finance, securities, bank financings and capital markets transactions. He began his legal career in 1998 in the International and Corporate Departments of one of the largest international law firms headquartered in Miami, Florida. He returned to Trinidad in 2002 to join M. Hamel-Smith & Co. and was promoted to a Partner in 2007.
Education:
2003 Hugh Wooding Law School, L.E.C.
1998 Juris Doctor (Law)
University of Miami School of Law (Dean’s Honor Scholar)
1995 BBA (International Business /Management Information Systems)
Florida International University (Faculty Scholar / Honors Program)
Bar Admission
Florida, U.S.A. - 1998
Trinidad & Tobago - 2003
Recent Experience Includes Representation of:
· FirstCaribbean International Bank (Trinidad & Tobago) Limited in several secured loan facilities for local SMEs;
· Genivar Inc., in the acquisition of an architecture and design firm through a local subsidiary;
· KfW IPEX-Bank GMBH US$200M additional financing for Methanol Holdings Trinidad Ltd. AUM Project;
· A US$240M Bond Issue by CL Financial Ltd. and US$102M financing raised by CL Financial Ltd. and CL Spirits Ltd. to fund the partial acquisition and takeover of Lascelles deMercado Ltd., a Jamaica public company, as Trinidad Counsel to the arrangers;
· Several local and foreign securities companies advising on carrying on securities/brokerage type business in Trinidad and Tobago;
· Gulf City (TT$300M) Bond Issue to fund the renovation and expansion of a local shopping complex as Counsel to the arranger RBTT Merchant Bank;
· A ₤31M asset-based lending facility to Burn Stewart Distillers Ltd. guaranteed by CL Financial Ltd. as Trinidad Counsel to KBC Business Capital, a division of KBC Bank, NV;
· RBTT Merchant Bank Limited, the arranger of a medium term secured note issue to replace a short-term US Dollar secured financing for the expansion of a tertiary-level educational institution in the region as well as a short-term US Dollar Zero Coupon Secured Note Issuance to finance the buyout of a shareholder of the institution’s parent company;
· Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, in the acquisition of a regional financial institution and in particular the local arm of that institution;
· One1 Financial Limited, the manager/arranger in the acquisition and financing of a local insurance company.
Past Employment Positions
1998 - 2002: Steel Hector & Davis LLP, Miami, Florida.
Selected Professional Activities:
Member of The Law Association of Trinidad & Tobago
Member of The Florida Bar
Chairman - Legislative Committee of American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago