Member Profiles

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.

Juan Javier Negri is a founding member of the firm (1990). He specializes in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate law. As an avid art collector, he now devotes part of his time to art law. In addition to several other teaching positions, Javier was Adjunct Professor of Commercial Law and Professor of Banking Law at the Argentine Catholic University between 1977 and 1992. He is Professor of Corporate Conflicts at the Graduate Level at Austral University (of which he is founding faculty member) since 1993. He lectured on Latin American Law at the University of Illinois in 1979. He is a Member of the Board of Advisors, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Law School. He has been guest speaker on Corporate Governance and Capital Markets in conferences around the world (Cartagena, Colombia; Sao Paulo, Brasil; Nyanga, Zimbabwe; Lusaka, Zambia; Nairobi, Kenya; Siem Reap, Cambodia; San José, Costa Rica; Nadi, Fiji, etc.). He was a speaker on Art Law at the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2014) and during the ARCO Madrid Art Fair in 2017. A book on banking activities in Argentina he co-authored won the 1990 Argentine Bankers’ Association Award. In 1990 he also won the Argentine Press Association Award for his news articles on the rule of law. His essay on art law (Banksy’s Door) won the 2016 Art Law Award granted by the Rodrigo Uría Foundation (Madrid, Spain). In addition to his books and essays, Javier has published more than 700 articles about current developments of the law in Argentina and abroad. He is an editorial referee of Banks and Bank Systems Journal published in Ukraine and a frequent editorial contributor th the newspaper La Nación in Buenos Aires. Javier is also an honorary member of the Argentine Institute on Corporate Governance and an Academician at the International Academy for Quality. He was member of the board of the Buenos Aires Bar Association between 1990 and 1994 and Chairman of the Board or board members of several Argentine corporations.