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Every law firm says it is experienced. Fewer will tell you what they actually built. These are representative matters, described in general terms.
Capital
Figures are in US dollars and describe the size of the transaction, not a fee.
USD$12,000,000
Equity and debt financing package
Structured and negotiated a combined equity and debt package using a multi-tranche framework, with each release of capital conditioned on a defined legislative milestone. The effect was that funding and regulatory progress advanced together instead of each waiting on the other — and that investors were never exposed to a stage of the project that had not yet cleared its approval.
Sint Maarten
2023–present
USD$5,000,000
Corporate operating line of credit
Formulated and negotiated a commercial lending facility with the lender, sized against a working-capital cycle rather than a single drawdown, including covenant package, reporting obligations and drawdown mechanics.
Sint Maarten
2023–present
USD$1,000,000
First-ranking secured bridge loan
Short-term facility secured by equity pledges and ranked ahead of existing positions, documented so that the security and inter-creditor position survived intact into the permanent financing that followed.
Sint Maarten
2023–present
Equity
Counterparty names are withheld unless the matter is already a matter of public record.
USD$5,500,000
Share purchase offer
Designed and negotiated a share purchase offer transitioning an equity position from a tribal government to an international investment group. Consideration was built around a 15% branded-product royalty and a structured schedule of deferred annual payments, so that the selling party retained an ongoing economic interest in the brand rather than a single closing payment.
Cross-border
2023–present
AdvisoryDeal-flow negotiation
Private equity, management and institutional stakeholders
Led complex negotiations across private-equity groups, local management teams and institutional stakeholders — including a national retirement fund and regional banking executives — bringing parties with materially different mandates to a single set of terms.
International
2009–2023
Regulation
Where the framework does not exist yet, someone has to help write it before anyone can operate inside it.
NationalCannabis Ordinance
Regulatory and legislative framework
Pioneered and managed the regulatory and legislative process behind a national cannabis ordinance, aligning the government's strategic objectives with a defined set of exclusive commercial rights — and then building the corporate structure able to hold and operate them.
Sint Maarten
2023–present
GovernanceCorporate restructuring
Articles, UBO disclosure and source of funds
Led restructuring including amendments to statutory articles of incorporation, carried through rigorous local notary compliance, with full ultimate-beneficial-owner disclosure and source-of-funds verification for every party in the structure.
Sint Maarten
2023–present
SectorGaming advisory
Land-based and online gaming operators
Legal and operational advisory to gaming properties internationally over roughly fourteen years, maintaining compliance across strict and frequently divergent regulatory boundaries while commercial deals continued to move.
International
2009–2023
Sovereign & technology
Two very different client types with one thing in common: what they are building has to survive the people who come after them.
AdvisoryTribal & First Nations counsel
Joint ventures and minority-interest protection
Strategic counsel to First Nations and tribal leadership on joint ventures, minority-interest protections and corporate law safeguards — structuring commercial partnerships that respect the fact that the client is a government as well as a business.
Canada & United States
2009–2023
TechnologySoftware & e-commerce build
Formation, IP acquisition and global licensing
Managed the complete legal and financial setup of an international software and e-commerce enterprise, including acquisition, registration and global licensing of core intellectual property and custom business tools, alongside budgets, cash-flow protocols and multi-jurisdictional transaction models.
Sint Maarten & international
2023–present
Matters are described in general terms and omit confidential detail. Nothing on this page is a prediction or guarantee about the outcome of any future engagement — every transaction turns on its own facts, its own counterparties and its own jurisdiction.
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