Member Profile

Hélène Anne Lewis is a national of Trinidad and Tobago and English qualified lawyer of more than twenty-five years, practising in the BVI since 1990. She is the Founding Partner of SimonetteLewis a boutique law practice that advises on a full range of private client matters involving BVI structures. She has appeared in several high value trust and civil litigation matters in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands and the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal; and is a regular presenter at industry conferences. A member of the organising committee of the STEP Caribbean Conference, which she has twice chaired in her capacity as Chairman of the BVI Branch of STEP. She has been a member of the STEP Worldwide Council and Board of Directors, and in November 2012 was elected Chairman of STEP Worldwide. Re-elected to the post in November 2013 she served until November 2014. She is currently a Vice President of STEP and Chairman of STEP’s Branch Development Committee. Mrs. Lewis is also admitted to practice in St. Kitts & Nevis.

Between 1984 and 1988, Mrs Lewis served in Trinidad and Tobago as State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers, Legal Advisor to the Ombudsman and to the Leader of the Opposition. Having been Senior Crown Counsel and sometimes Acting Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands, she joined a prominent BVI law firm in 1990 but established her own practice in February 2007. She has served as Secretary and later President of the B.V.I. Bar Association, and separately as Treasurer and later Vice President of the OECS Bar Association.

• STEP Caribbean Conference 2004,2014,2015

• STEP LatAm Conference 2013,2014

• Caribbean Regional Compliance Association Conference 2011

• STEP Asia 2013, 2014

• STEP South Africa 2014

• International Bar Association 19th Annual International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference