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Pamela
V. Phillips, born Kingston, Jamaica, 1954. She holds an LL.B.
(Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies. Admitted
to practice in 1977, she joined the firm of Samuel Hart & Co. as an
associate, gaining experience in real estate and commercial transactions.
She migrated to Canada in 1979 where she worked as a legal clerk and
title searcher. Returning to Jamaica, she joined National Continental
Corporation Limited, a large manufacturing company, as Legal Advisor
and Company Secretary. In addition to handling the companyıs real
estate and commercial transactions, including the winding-up of a
real estate development subsidiary, she handled administrative matters
and acted as Company Secretary and Registrar. Between 1988 and 1995,
she acted as Group Legal Advisor and Company Secretary to the Eagle
Financial Group of Companies, handling their commercial, real estate
and loan transactions, in particular, the preparation of security
documentation for single institution and syndicated loans. In 1997,
she became a partner in the firm, Phillips, Burke & Morgan. Her
present practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial law, banking/finance,
real estate and company secretarial.
Howard
N. Malcolm, born London, England, 1955. He holds an LL.B. (Honours)
degree from the University of the West Indies and a J.D. degree from
the University of Miami Law School, where he was the recipient of
a full academic scholarship. He was admitted to the Jamaica Bar in
1978 and the Florida Bar in 1988. During his first ten (10) years
as an attorney, Mr. Malcolm was employed to the firms of Dunn, Cox
& Orrett in Kingston, Jamaica and Lanza, Sevier, Womack & OıConnor
in Coral Gables, Florida, where he specialised in general litigation
and insurance defence litigation respectively. Between 1988 and 1994
he maintained a dual practice between the Miami, Florida office of
Herman, Roof, Henry & Malcolm and the Kingston, Jamaica office of
Henry & Malcolm. In 1994 he returned to Jamaica, where he resumed
full-time practice as a partner in the firm of Henry & Malcolm until
he joined the law firm of Phillips, Malcolm, Morgan and Matthies.
He has also served as a consultant to the Government of Jamaica ("GOJ")
in its establishment of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, a poverty
alleviation programme funded primarily by the World Bank, the GOJ
and the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Malcolm concentrates
his practice in the areas of commercial law, domestic and international
business transactions, real estate, trademark registrations, and has
experience in commercial litigation.
Publications: "Towards the Emergence of an Anglo-West
Indian Jurisprudence" - 18 West Indian L. J. 53 (October 1993,
No. 2). Available on Word
and Acrobat format.
Margaret
A. Morgan, born St. Andrew, Jamaica. She holds an LL.B. (Honours)
degree from the University of the West Indies and was admitted to
the Jamaica Bar in 1981. She worked as an associate of John W. McFarlane
in Mandeville, Manchester from 1982 to 1986 where she gained invaluable
experience in civil litigation in the Resident Magistratesı Courts
and in the areas of landlord and tenancy, real estate, debt collection
and wills and succession. Between 1987 and 1996, she held positions
as Assistant Legal Counsel for Mutual Security Bank, Legal Officer
and Assistant Company Secretary to Island Life Insurance Company
Limited and Legal Advisor to the Eagle Financial Group of Companies.
In 1997, she became a partner in the firm, Phillips, Burke &
Morgan. She specialises in the areas of wills and successions, corporate
and commercial law, banking/finance, real estate transactions, loan
security documentation and debt collection.
Roberta
A. Matthies, born Kingston, Jamaica, 1960. She holds a B.Com.
(Honours) degree from Queens University, Ontario, Canada and worked
for the U.S. Agency for International Development prior to obtaining
an LL.B. (Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies.
Admitted to practice in 1990, she joined Myers Fletcher & Gordon,
the largest law firm in Jamaica and the Commonwealth Caribbean,
where she gained experience in all aspects of commercial law, taxation,
securities, banking, real estate, trusts, wills, probate applications,
estate and tax planning. She has particular expertise in mergers
and acquisitions (having assisted in the merger of several Jamaican
banks and financial entities); receiverships and liquidations; sale
and financing of real estate holdings and developments; franchise
and licensing agreements. She has also served as Company Secretary
to several private Jamaican companies.
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