PRACTICE AREAS
Our focus is helping our clients to achieve their business objectives, by providing practical advice and effective solutions.
CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL
DePass & Co represents a diverse clientele, ranging from family-held enterprises to publicly-listed companies, including local businesses and multi-nationals. Our advisory capabilities span every phase of a company’s growth cycle. We undertake day-to-day corporate maintenance and regulatory compliance, negotiating domestic and international commercial agreements, structuring and documenting joint-ventures, mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings.
Our focus is on helping our clients to achieve their business objectives, by providing practical advice and effective solutions. We are proud of the key role that we play in helping new enterprises to grow and international companies to enter the Jamaican market. We have experience in advising on a wide range of commercial issues and in negotiating, structuring, and documenting all types of business transactions.
CORPORATE FINANCE
We work along with Banks, Arrangers and Securities Dealers engaged in capital market transactions to obtain investment funding by equity or debt capital.
DePass & Co also provides advice to private and listed companies, with respect to, commercial paper programmes and private offerings of equity and debt securities.
COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE
We assist companies to maintain the highest operating standards that incorporate the highest ideals of business conduct to protect the company’s integrity. We offer comprehensive advice to companies concerning the regulatory landscape in which they operate and best practices in corporate governance.
Our corporate secretarial services practice provides registered office facilities, advice on and assistance in complying with local regulatory requirements and assistance and support in annual and other statutory filings, and in carrying out legal due diligence investigations.
BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES
Members of the Firm have extensive experience in providing advice to Banks and financial institutions in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of a whole range of financing transactions, including domestic and cross- border transactions, secured and unsecured transactions, project financings, asset-based lending, residential and commercial mortgages, capital markets debt offerings, the drafting and negotiating of complex syndicated loan facilities including the refinancing of existing facilities and revolving credit facilities.
REAL ESTATE, CONVEYANCING & PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
Real Estate is one of our most prominent practice areas. We have a wealth of experience in all aspects of real estate law, including the structuring of developments and property acquisitions, and have significant expertise in the sale and purchase of residential, commercial and leisure properties, and the leasing of properties, for both local and international clients.
Attorneys in the firm have significant experience in real estate financing and have acted for local financial institutions and borrowers in connection with residential and commercial mortgages and various other forms of security.
ESTATE PLANNING & ADMINISTRATION
DePass & Co provides support to its clients with their personal estate planning needs as well as assistance with estate administration on death. Our services include the strategic design and implementation of a client’s estate planning needs, preparation of wills, application for grants of representation, resealing of overseas grants and protection of estate assets on behalf of the fiduciaries and beneficiaries.