Attorneys

Erica Paine joined the Firm as Consultant Counsel in the Freeport office in 2002. Erica has many years experience in all aspects of real estate law and represents several major real estate developers in Grand Bahama. She also has considerable expertise in corporate and commercial law, and represents a number of leading Bahamian banks and other financial institutions in respect of both real estate and other commercial transactions. She represents a number of international corporate investors, and is particularly knowledgeable in the field of conducting business in the "Port Area" of Grand Bahama.

Transactions on which she has recently worked include:

• Representing real estate developers with the purchase, development, financing and re-sale of subdivisions.
• Representing real estate developers with regard to subjecting property to the condominium form of ownership.
• Representing real estate developers with regard to time-share and other fractional ownership projects.
• Advising in conjunction with a major hotel development in Grand Bahama.
• Advising a major corporate investor on local requirements in conjunction with an international corporate restructuring.
• Advising on financing structures to local banks.
• Numerous conveyancing and mortgage transactions.

Following her education at Oxford University, England and the Council of Legal Education, London, England, Erica was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1980. Between 1981 and 1996 she practiced at the English Bar at Falcon Chambers, London, specializing in Real Estate and Landlord and Tenant Law. During this period she was also a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England on Landlord and Tenant Law. Erica moved to the Bahamas from England in 1996.