Member Profiles

With over fifteen (15) years experience in law, as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) Nelcia specializes in (i) Commercial Litigation; (ii) Corporate and Insolvency Law; (iii) Corporate Governance; (v) Corporate Restructuring: Plans of Arrangement, Schemes of Arrangement and Mergers; and (vi) Property Law. Nelcia has appeared in the Commercial Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Virgin Islands) and have had conduct of many matters in the Civil Division of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Virgin Islands) in matters in respect of companies and company disputes. In addition to trials, her work at Court featured Interim applications and applications for injunctive relief; applications for the appointments of liquidators; applications for the restoration of BVI companies and rectification of share registers; and applications for a range of other relief available to directors and shareholders under the BVI Business Companies & Insolvency Acts. Member of Lincoln’s Inn,  BVI Bar Association, President of the Rotary Club of Central Tortola and Former President of the Rotary Club of Central Tortola. Admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (non-practising) 2005, Admitted to the Bar of British Virgin Islands 2005. Notary Public & Commissioner of Oaths.

Sally Cox has over 20 years’ experience in the British Virgin Islands. She has a very wide range of experience in non-contentious and corporate and commercial matters. She gained a vast knowledge while working in the Financial Services Industry at the beginning of her career. This foundation combined with her many years of experience working with large offshore law firms at partner level has provided her with a unique perspective and an ability to handle complex matters with a commercial and practical approach and she is well known for finding creative solutions to complicated legal situations. Sally Cox was awarded her LLB from the University of the West Indies and went on to attain a Master of Laws in Commercial Law from the University of London. She has worked at partner level with several firms including a leading international law firm based in the British Virgin Islands and has also held the position of Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer, Compliance Officer and Managing Director of a trust company.

Martin Kenney is a specialist lawyer in multi-jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud, and has acted for international banks, insurance companies, individual investors, and other private and governmental institutions. He is a practicing Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) of the Supreme Courts of England & Wales and of the Eastern Caribbean (at the BVI and in St. Vincent & the Grenadines), a non-practicing Barrister & Solicitor of British Columbia, and a licensed foreign legal consultant in the State of New York. Mr. Kenney holds an LL.M. (International Business Law) from University College, London. He has published and lectured on money laundering, legal and ethical restraints on the conduct of private investigations, and international concealed asset recovery. Mr. Kenney is widely regarded as a ground breaker in the use of preemptive remedies in response to global economic crime to uproot bank secrets and freeze hidden assets in multiple jurisdictions concurrently. He has been featured in articles and broadcasts of media outlets in many countries.

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.

Hélène is a national of Trinidad and Tobago and English qualified lawyer of more than twenty-five years who has been practising in the BVI since 1990. She is the Founding Partner of SimonetteLewis a boutique law practice that serves as BVI legal advisers to private banks in Europe and Asia as well as to private wealth advisers and high net worth individuals onshore. Mrs Lewis’ practice includes advising on property, trust, probate and corporate matters involving BVI structures. With her Litigation Partner, she has also appeared in several high value trust and civil litigation matters in the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands and the OECS Court of Appeal. She has presented to several conferences on Trust, Compliance and Corporate issues and is a member of the organising committee of one of the trust industry’s most successful conferences – the STEP Caribbean Conference which she has chaired twice in her capacity as Chairman of the BVI Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (“STEP”). After admission to the Bar at Gray’s Inn the former Hélène Anne Simonette returned to Trinidad where she was at various times, State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers, Legal Advisor to the Ombudsman and to the Leader of the Opposition. After having been the Senior Crown Counsel and sometimes Acting Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands, she joined a prominent BVI law firm but established her own practice (SimonetteLewis) in February 2007. Mrs Lewis has served as President of the B.V.I. Bar Association, of which she was previously Secretary for seven years and has also served as Vice President and Treasurer of the OECS Bar Association, a regional association of the Bar Associations of the nine countries which comprise the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. She has served as a member of the STEP Worldwide Council and Board of Directors and had the distinction of being elected in November 2012 to be Chairman of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She was re-elected to the post in November 2013 and stood down in November 2014. She currently services as a Vice President of STEP Worldwide and ChairmanoftheBranchDevelopmentCommittee. Mrs.Lewisisalsoadmittedtopracticein St. Kitts & Nevis.