Full-Service Law Firm in Anguilla, West Indies

Keithley Lake & Associates

The Law Building
P.O Box 14
The Valley
Anguilla

+1 264 4972069

+1 264 4973012

www.anguilla-attorney.com

Contact Miss Yvette A. Wallace

Law Firm Overview

Keithley Lake & Associates is a full-service law firm located in The Valley, Anguilla. We represent numerous businesses and individuals in Anguilla and overseas. The firm was founded on 1st July, 1993 by Keithley F.T. Lake, who returned to Anguilla after many years of experience and service in the United States.

At Keithley Lake & Associates, we recognize the responsibility a law firm has to provide quality legal services to its clients promptly, skillfully and professionally. The Firm has a compliment of well respected professionals and skilled support personnel to meet our clients’ needs for diverse and sophisticated legal services. The lawyers are called in multiple jurisdictions including Anguilla, Grenada, Jamaica, Missouri in the USA, Montserrat, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, the Firm has established close working relationships with attorneys in the wider Caribbean, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Latin America.

Our clientele is diverse and includes large international and local corporations as well as individuals. We are dedicated to the delivery of high-quality legal services in a prompt and efficient manner. Client Service is our top priority and we are committed to the process of continuous improvement through a thorough understanding of client needs.

Year this Office was Established: 1993

Languages: English

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Debt Restructuring, Partnership Agreements, Wealth Management

Practice Areas Description

Our practice areas include:

— Admiralty and Shipping
Keithley Lake & Associates has advised and continues to advise our clients on developments within the shipping and marina industry.

— Banking & Finance
Keithley Lake & Associates is General Counsel to the largest bank on Anguilla. In addition, our banking team advises various international, regional and national banks and financial institutions on all types of syndicated and bilateral lending including debt restructuring, project financing, and property acquisition finance.

— Corporate Law
The team’s broad base of experience in developing corporate vehicles and structures inures to our clients’ benefit and facilitates business transactions including those of a transnational nature.

— Government Relations
From the inception of the Firm, Keithley Lake & Associates has successfully liaised with Government and advocated our clients' respective interests. By drawing on our expertise in various practice areas and our understanding of the political and legal systems, we are able to provide government relations and assistance with regulatory and public policy issues with respect to a range of industries and causes.

— Information Technology Law
Information technology and the development of the information superhighway have changed the way people and companies do business in Anguilla. The passage of the Electronic Transactions Act on 14th September, 2006 facilitates e-commerce and provides a framework for the storage and protection of electronic data. Keithley Lake & Associates were instrumental in the preparation of this legislation.

— Insurance
Anguilla has made significant advances in the establishment of a legal regime to facilitate the use of various insurance vehicles in the offshore world. The traditional captive insurance and reinsurance markets have seen new and innovative financial investment products such as protected cell companies. Keithley Lake & Associates have been involved in guiding a number of investors and businesses in this area. We also provide advice on core insurance products such as life, medical and general insurance.

— Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Our team of highly skilled trial attorneys are dedicated to producing results and have developed extensive experience in most of the significant corporate, commercial and civil litigation in Anguilla. We provide a full range of litigation and dispute resolution services. We regularly appear before the Courts and Tribunals in matters ranging from simple debt collections to complex litigation.

— Intellectual Property
Anguilla has become a very active business and financial centre and attracting the attention and investment of internationally renowned companies and entrepreneurs. Additionally, as an up-market tourist destination, Anguilla attracts film producers, entertainers, CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies and the like. As such, it is a jurisdiction prime for the recognition and enforcement of intellectual property.

Our diligent IP team, worked closely with the Government of Anguilla to enact in 2002 new Intellectual Property legislation relating to Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright, Layout Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits, Geographical Indications and Protection of Trade Secrets. The legislation closely harmonizes and complies with TRIPS.

— Offshore Trusts / Offshore Banking
Keithley Lake & Associates extensive experience in creating and advising on traditional wealth management vehicles makes us well poised to employ the improved and innovative corporate structures to provide practical solutions for clients who seek to maximize their wealth.

— Probate, Trust & Estate Management
We are well experienced in advising executors and administrators, beneficiaries, settlors and protectors alike on all aspects of succession and estate management. We recognize that the administration of a deceased person’s estate can be a very lengthy process and so the team at Keithley Lake & Associates is committed to assisting our clients in achieving complete administration of estates in a professional and responsive manner.

— Real Estate
Keithley Lake & Associates are legal advisors to major players in Anguilla's luxury tourism industry. Our real estate team combines innovative advice with a wealth of experience to provide sound, practical and solution-oriented advice and practice on a wide range of matters.

Affiliations

First Fidelity Trust Ltd
Fidelity Insurance Company Ltd
Axa Offshore Management Ltd
Tira Greene-Legal Reform and Drafting Specialist

Partners

	Mr. Keithley F.T. Lake Attorney Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Government, Real Estate		Mr. Kenneth G. Porter Attorney Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Copyright
	Ms. Yvette A. Wallace Managing Partner Admiralty and Maritime, Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Business and Industry, Business Formation

Associates

	Miss Merline M. Barrett Attorney Banking Law, Business Law, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Corporate Law		Miss Jean M. Dyer Attorney Business and Industry, Corporate Law, Employment, Estate Planning, Financial Services Law
	Miss Michelle N. Smith Attorney Business and Industry, Business Law, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation