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Amalia Maharaj

Pollonais, Blanc, de la Bastide & Jacelon

Country:

Trinidad and Tobago

Practice Area:

Commercial

Website:

www.polanc.com

Phone Number:

868 612 7235 ext 242

Email:

a.maharaj@polanc.com

Fax:

624-5644; 625-8415

Address:

Pembroke Court

17-19 Pembroke Street

Port of Spain

Trinidad, W.I.

Details

MSc INTERNATIONALBANKING AND FINANCE (Pending Thesis-Completion 2023)

UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD MANCHESTER, U.K.

PUBLIC PRIVATEPARTNERSHIPS-

Euromoney- June 2010

PRACTICAL USE OF 1999FIDIC CONTRACT FOR EPC TURNKEY SILVERBOOK JCC, ECV AND FIDIC June 2009

PROJECT PROCUREMENTIN THE CARIBBEAN: PROS AND CONS

Institute of Surveyors of Trinidad & Tobago

FUNDAMENTALS OFDERIVATIVES

Brian E.F. Jones – July 2007

SECURITYDOCUMENTATION & ADVANCED SECURITY DOCUMENTATION

Euromoney – April 2007

UNDERSTANDINGCONSTRUCTION CLAIMS

Katz & Stone, Bould Consulting – May 2006

LEGAL EDUCATIONCERTIFICATE (L.E.C), 2000-2002

Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Recipient of:

- Medal of Merit – Highest Award of the Council of Legal Education (SoleRecipient for 2002)

- Book Specialist Prize - First Outstanding Year 1 Student

- Council of Legal Education Prize - Most Outstanding Year 1 Student

- Trinity Chambers Prize – Best Performance in Criminal Practice &Procedure

- Council of Legal Education Prize – Most Outstanding Student over two(2) years;

- Pelham Sloane–Seale Memorial Prize – Best performance in Conveyancingand Registration of Title

BACHELOR OF LAWS(L.L.B), (UPPER SECOND CLASS HONS.) 1997-2000

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.

Practice Description

- Represented several financial service industries before various financial services regulators;

- Full Partner portfolio with responsibility for public companies, banks and financial institutions, large private corporations and oil and gas companies.

-Lead role in review, negotiation and drafting of security documentation for commercial financing transactions;

- mergers and acquisitions;

- Primary responsibility for a variety of institutional clients including state enterprises, banks, securities companies;

- Drafting and reviewing a variety of commercial contracts and leases;

- Incorporation of companies and advising on corporate and regulatory compliance;

- Preparation of legal opinions

Industry Sector Expertise

Key Transactions

Corporate and Commercial

Engaged as Local Counsel to Royal Bank of Canada in the acquisition of RBTT Financial Holdings Limited on the floors of exchanges in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

Acted as local counsel to a statutory authority in the offering to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144 A of the US Securities Act and to persons outside of the United States under Regulation S of the US Securities Act as part of a large project finance facility.

Project financing for completion of liquefied natural gas production facilities to facilitate expansion from Trinidad and Tobago in Atlantic LNG Train 1 and subsequent train financing.

Acted for a leading bank in Trinidad and Tobago for a portfolio of existing loan and security documentation as part of an extensive audit review and advising on risk and credit exposures.

Acted for the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago in the exercise of a forensic legal audit into a local financial institution.

Acted as counsel to Repsol E&P T&T Ltd.during the period of its initial set up in Trinidad and Tobago and in relation to the acquisition by it of an interest in the Teak Samaan and Poui offshore oil fields from bpTT.

The Firm acted on behalf of UDECOTT in all matters relating to the financing of the Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre including the interim funding accessed through FirstCaribbean International Bank (Trinidad and Tobago) Limited and the long-term financing in conjunction with Barclays Capital in the issue of commercial paper totalling US$375 million which was marketed and sold in the U.S. Private Placement market in an innovative structure.

Acted for the local electricity commission in the negotiation of its Power Purchase Agreements.

Acted as counsel to Caribbean Airlines and have advised on all matters relating to its formation and acquisition of assets from BWIA West Indies Airways Limited.

Acted as local counsel to an Australian Bank in a large project finance facility extended to a state company for the National Highways Project.

Acted as local counsel to a UK Securities Firm advising on hedging and derivative transactions in Trinidad and Tobago.

Matters

Banking and Finance, Project Financing, Capital Markets Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Law, Construction Contracts

Career History

From 2006 Amalia has focused her practice on banking and finance transactions including large scale project finance facilities, mergers and acquisitions and securities law. She is versed in the review and drafting of all forms of loan and security documentation for commercial financing transactions; mergers and acquisitions; drafting and reviewing of a variety of commercial contracts and leases; establishment of mutual funds, power purchase agreements, bond issues; preparation and review of construction contracts on behalf of both Employer and Contractor, registration of market actors under the Securities Industry Act; experience in cross border transactions; rendering of legal opinions; representation of companies in the oil and gas sector.