Corporate and Commercial Law

Gillian M.H. Clarke Partner gillian.clarke@clarkes.com.bb

Tel: +246 436 6287 www.clarkegittensfarmer.com

Restructuring and Project Finance; Securities Law; Taxation

Gillian M.H. Clarke, Partner, is the head of the firm’s Corporate Department and brings more than 34 years of experience in corporate and commercial work to the role.

Sabrina L. Maynard, Partner, is the head of the firm’s Commercial Department with over twenty-three years of professional experience. Sabrina began her career as an accountant with the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Barbados and later with Deloitte Barbados where she gained extensive knowledge of the financial services, insurance and international business sectors.

Both Gillian and Sabrina work closely with international law and accounting firms, major local, regional and international organisations both public and private, and private clients, on a range of corporate and commercial matters including business entity formation, corporate and securities law issues, structuring and tax planning, mergers & acquisitions, structuring of cross border reorganisations, competition and regulatory matters, trusts, pensions, and varied and complex international commercial and financial transactions across a variety of sectors, including finance, shipping, mining, automotive, hospitality, insurance, food, aviation, oil and gas, renewable energy and aerospace and defence.

Gillian is an accredited mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in England. She is also a trust and estate practitioner (TEP). She is a member of the Commercial Law Committee of the Barbados Bar Association and a former director and member of the Executive Committee of Lex Mundi, and a past Chair of the Lex Mundi Professional Development Committee. Outside the firm, Ms. Clarke is a trustee of the Barbados Gallery of Art Trust and the Peter Moores Barbados Trust, and a director of the Barbados National Art Gallery.

Sabrina is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as well as a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados. She is also a qualified chartered secretary and a trust and estate practitioner (TEP). In addition, she holds an Advanced Certificate in International Tax Planning from the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation. Outside the firm, Sabrina serves as a director and the treasurer of Barbados International Business Association. In addition, she serves as a member of the Legislation Committee and the By-Law Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados. Ms. Maynard is also an active member of Soroptimist International of Barbados.

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Brazil

Antitrust Law and Arbitration

Edgard Pereira holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Institute of Economics of the University of Campinas – UNICAMP (1981), and a master’s degree and a doctorate in economics from the Industrial Economics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ (1985 and 1996).

Edgard Antonio Pereira Partner

EDAP - Edgard Pereira & Associados

Tel: +55 11 3066-0420 edgard@edap.com.br www.edap.com.br

He was a professor in the Economics Theory Department of the Institute of Economics of the University of Campinas – UNICAMP (1983-2017) and a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, where he completed his studies to prepare a PhD thesis on pricing and inflation in Brazil (1995-1996). He was also a visiting researcher in the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne at the Université Paris I, Paris, France, where he studied the developments of the cost transaction theory applied to antitrust and regulation (2011).He is a visiting scholar in the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, New York, USA, studying the structural changes in the intersectoral impact coefficients of the Brazilian, Chinese and American economies (2022-2023).

Edgard also had a prolific public career, serving as Director of the Department of Supply and Prices for the Ministry of Economics, Finance and Planning (1990); National Economics Secretary for the Ministry of Economics, Finance and Planning (1990-1991); and Finance Secretary for the City of Campinas (1994). He was also a consultant for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for industrial policy issues related to Mercosur, and coordinator of several studies on industry and industrial economics. He was also the chief economist of the Institute of Industrial Development Studies – IEDI (2006-2007). He is author of a number of articles published in specialised journals and is a lecturer at several national and international conferences and seminars.

Edgard is the founding partner of EDAP - Edgard Pereira & Associados, a pioneering economics consulting firm established in 1991, acting in antitrust, antidumping, economic studies, sectoral analysis and macroeconomic forecasts, expert testimony and witnesses in arbitration and court proceedings and economic regulation. EDAP’s clients are the main companies operating in their respective areas of activity, such as: Assurant, General Electric, Marriott, Motorola, Nestlé, Whrilpool, among others.