Lynda Mair

Lynda has been in practice for almost 43 years, both in private practice and as in-house counsel.

She is a Commercial and Real Estate lawyer with significant experience in domestic and cross-border work inclusive of: mergers and acquisitions; take-overs; restructurings (with special expertise in restructuring of family-owned businesses and bond buy-backs in international transactions); capital raising and securitization transactions; complex commercial litigation and real property, including residential property development and construction financing, with some selected matters being:

Government divestments of agricultural enterprises, both for Government of Jamaica and Private Investors;

Local Counsel in a substantial debt issue registered with the US SEC;

Tender Offer under NY law and subsequent application for approval of Scheme of Arrangement under Jamaican law;

Restructuring of large, privately held Jamaican commercial, industrial & property development conglomerate over a 5-year period;

Acquisition of interest in Caribbean-wide tourism entertainment product by a local listed investment trust.

She has also acted for real estate developers in relation to a variety of housing developments, including a middle-income 1,100 unit mixed villa, apartment and townhouse development at Priory, St Ann and developments in Kingston and St Andrew, ranging between 15 to 54 units in development size.

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