Erica Marshall-Forde

Banking and Finance, Employment and Labour, Hospitality and Leisure, Real Estate, Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation

Erica Marshall-Forde is Regional Head of Property and Real Estate with oversight of the Firm’s 13-jurisdiction Pan-Caribbean Real Estate practice. As co-leader of the firm’s Infrastructure and PPP sector group, she also advises on both public and private projects, including major waterfront infrastructural development transactions across the region.

Supporting clients in the dynamic discipline of zoning and planning, Erica advises on some of the region’s more complex transactions with the capabilities to proactively address a diverse range of concerns, including construction, land use, infrastructure development, environmental assessments, and climate change strategies.

Erica’s knowledge of local and regional know-how combined with her extensive experience working with leading market participants allow clients benefit from her broad perspective on market conditions and developments.

As head of the Caribbean-wide Employment and Labour practice, she instructs over eleven teams providing regional businesses and multinationals with coordinated solutions to all their employment and labour needs. Erica extensively advises general counsels in connection with contract and employee handbook reviews, pensions and benefits, related litigation, corporate and governmental investigations, executive compensation, immigration, and HR and counseling projects.

She is regularly engaged to offer strategic guidance on the confines of the law and employer obligations in large-scale layoffs, redundancies and restructuring exercises resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and in relation to divestures, bankruptcy and insolvency, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Erica recently led tense union negotiations in Grenada following a labour impasse resulting from a highly publicized banking acquisition.

Barrister, Middle Temple of England and Wales, 2012

Accredited Mediator (Civil and Commercial)-ADR Group, 2012

Barbados Bar Association

Barbados International Business Association