Lance L Hylton

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Lance was admitted to practice in 1987. He is best known for his work in high-end acquisitions and mergers, joint ventures, stock exchange transactions, domestic and cross-border financial transactions, corporate restructurings and structuring of sophisticated estate planning solutions for high net worth individuals and families.

Lance honed his skills in offshore solutions and estate planning matters during his 7 year stint in the British Virgin Islands where he served as Managing Director of a licensed offshore trust company. He has been a member of the United Kingdom Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners since 1997.

Lance has been lead attorney in some of the nation’s largest or most complex corporate matters including several Initial Public Offers and Hostile Takeovers of public listed companies. He was lead attorney for the purchaser in Jamaica’s first successful leveraged buyout of a public listed company in what was also the region’s largest transaction of its kind at the time; was lead attorney in Jamaica’s first successful hostile takeover of a major public company; was lead attorney for the vendor in the merger/acquisition of Jamaica’s largest general insurance company; was lead attorney in the privatization and restructuring of one of Jamaica’s largest and most diverse private Group of Companies; was lead attorney for the vendor in the acquisition transaction between Jamaica’s two largest health insurance companies; lead attorney in the acquisition and securing of regulatory licence for a bank and securities dealer and the formation and licensing of one of the nation’s largest insurance providers with 900,000 local policies issued.

Lance holds or has held several leadership roles in both the public and private sectors, including Chairman of the Board of the Postal Corporation of Jamaica; Chairman of the Companies Office Advisory Board; Chairman of the Jamaica College Board of Governors; director of the Board of the Jamaica College Foundation; President of Rotary, director of Supreme Ventures Limited, director of Berger Paints Jamaica Limited, director of Pegasus Hotels of Jamaica Limited.

He has served as a tutor at the Norman Manley Law School since 2009.

Lance is one of only two attorneys in Jamaica to have been consistently ranked since 2007 in Band 1 by the world’s leading legal services rating organisation, Chambers & Partners. The independent legal services ranking body summarises Lance Hylton's reputation as follows:-

"Lance Hylton .... is a renowned lawyer who frequently appears on high-profile M&A, corporate restructurings and financial transactions."

"Lance Hylton has a wealth of experience in complex commercial matters."

"Lance Hylton's legal expertise cannot be easily surpassed."