Member Profiles

Sousa Silva is the Founder of Sousa Saraiva da Silva- IP. He is an attorney with over 12 years of enriched experience in commercial, corporate, banking, administrative, labor, IP, immigration, family, inheritance, tax, legal audits, litigation (including extrajudicial and judicial debt collection) areas. He holds a post-graduate degree in law from Agostinho Neto University, Angola. Previously, he had worked with Coca-Cola. He is an experienced attorney with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry. The Firm Vision We strive to be the benchmark for excellence in the field of legal services.  Mission We provide legal assistance services in Angola, with highest professionalism and ethics, combined with national and international experience and practices. We deliver highly efficient, effective, and innovative IP solutions to our clients with an objective to provide high-quality and responsive intellectual property rights services maintaining the highest international standards. With our enriched experience, we cater to every aspect of intellectual property rights - patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Our integrated IP solutions enable our clients to maximize their potential and have a competitive edge in the business.

Born Anguilla, British West Indies. Admitted: 1986, Anguilla; 1992, British Virgin Islands; 1998, Grenada; 2000, St. Kitts-Nevis. Notary Public. Commissioner for Oaths. Professional Education University of the West Indies (LL.B Hons., 1984); Norman Manley Law School (Legal Education Certificate, 1986); International Development Law Institute, Rome Italy, 1989; International Tax Academy, Holland, 1990. Experience Crown Counsel, Government of Anguilla 1986-1987, and is the immediate past Leader of Opposition in  the Government of Anguilla. Memberships Anguilla Bar Association, the Anguilla Financial Services Association (former president), Anguilla Finance Limited (former chair), the International Tax Planning Association, the International Fiscal Association,  the International Bar Association and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.                                         Languages English and French Practice Areas Bankruptcy, Company Law, Construction Law, Government Relations, Real Estate and Property Insurance.

Nelleen Rogers Murdoch – Mrs. Murdoch holds an LLB from the University of the West Indies and a Diploma in Legislative Drafting from the University of Ottawa. She is admitted to practice as an attorney at law in Trinidad and Tobago and in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in Antigua. She is an experienced attorney with over 30 years practice in different areas. She is a trained and established mediator who is actively involved in the settlement of disputes as a court appointed mediator in Antigua. She also has training and experience in resolution of disputes through arbitration and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has significant experience in industrial law and labour relations having been appointed and sat as a Chairman of the Industrial Court in Antigua. She has acted as a consultant draftsman to several international organizations, and has acted for clients in respect of banking and securities law, insurance law, corporate mergers and acquisitions, drafting MOUs for development projects, shipping and commercial transactions. She is also a licenced agent under the citizenship by investment program of Antigua.

Ms. Henry was admitted to practice in 1981 having completed her Bachelor of Laws Degree at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill in 1979 and the Legal Education Certificate at the Hugh Wooding Law School  in 1981. Between 1981 and 1983, Ms. Henry practiced in the criminal courts in the BVI working in the Attorney General’s Chambers there.  In 1983, she returned to Antigua and embarked on a career in private practice first with Time H. Kendal QC eminent jurist of blessed memory, then, in 1990, as E. Ann Henry & Associates until 2003 when she formed a partnership  with Ms C. Debra Burnette,  under the style and title Henry & Burnette. In September 2012, Ms. Henry was appointed to be one of Her Majesty’s Counsel. She has acted as a High Court Judge as well as Justice of Appeal on the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. Ms. Henry was President of the Antigua & Barbuda Association on two occasions. She was Vice President of the OECS Bar Association and member of the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations.  Ms. Henry Was the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education for the West Indies from 2007 to 2010 and currently serves as a member of the Regional Judicial Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Court of Justice. She is admitted to practice in Antigua & Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla and Montserrat. Ms. Henry is a Chartered Director having pursued a course of study leading to that qualification in 2016.

Lisandro Allende is a founding partner of A&F | Allende • Ferrante | Abogados firm and head of the Corporate Department. He has almost 35 years of legal professional practice in the corporate and business law fields. Prior to forming A&F, he was a senior partner at one of the largest firms of Argentina for 27 years. He has a vast academic background in corporate law, commercial law and M&A, and he has got postgraduate degrees in both Argentina and abroad including an LLM degree at Suffolk University, Boston, USA. Lisandro Allende is a former co-chair of the Latin American Regional Forum of the IBA and a member of international lawyers’ organizations. He also has a vast academic activity as a Law professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the UCES University, both in Corporate law and in Business Law fields.