Peter Goldson

Practice Areas

Peter is a member of the Firm’s Commercial Department and his practice includes Mergers and Acquisitions (which has included extensive due diligence), Pensions, Intellectual Property and Hotel Sales ,Project Finance, Capital Markets, Security Documentation, Regulatory Advice (including relating to the Jamaica Stock Exchange, the Office of Utilities Regulation, the Financial Services Commission and the Bank of Jamaica). Peter has also been involved with several Public Private Partnerships.

Career

Peter is the former Managing Partner of the firm and head of the Intellectual Property Department.

Professional Memberships

• Jamaica Bar Association

• Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association

• ASIPI

• International Trademarks Association

• MARQUES

• IPEBLA

• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office

• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Companies Office of Jamaica

• Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica International Financial Services Authority (JIFSA)

Publications

• https://myersfletcher.com/the-duties-of-a-pension-trustee-lamb-to-the-slaughter/

• https://myersfletcher.com/the-revocation-of-patents/

• https://myersfletcher.com/protecting-ip-rights-by-audit/

• Dworkin and the Natural Law Connection” U.W.I. Student Law Review, May/June 1984

• “The Reform of Charitable Purposes” West Indian Law Journal, May/October 1988

• “Protecting Bob Marley’s Face: The New Tort of Appropriation of Personality” [1996] 55 Cambridge L.J. 56

• “Legal Framework of Non-Profit Sector Organizations” published in “The Gift: Journal of Caribbean Philanthropy”, 2006, UWI