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Mair & Company

About Us

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Welcome to Mair & Company

The firm was founded in 1989, from a succession of law practices since 1985. Our partners share a vision of how best to help our clients succeed. We believe the practice of law can be different. 

Alongside legal expertise in a wide range of practice areas, we also offer a depth of specialist knowledge in strategic industries and sectors. We have a history of innovation from our inception, championing avant-garde areas of law and challenging out-dated legal practices. Accessibility and diversity are key priorities.

Our philosophy is based on a set of core beliefs, the chief of which are that at all times, the client’s interests come first. We deploy legal services in a manner that provides maximum value for our clients. Mair and Company operates as a true partnership, with individuals who are dedicated to the firm, to each other, and to the community in which we live and work.

Our shared principles include:

We place our clients first and let client priorities – not firm priorities - take precedence.  We serve as trusted advisors to our clients and are dedicated to being partners with our clients, not merely sellers of services.  That means tailoring our scope of services and fee structure around our client’s needs, understanding their business, and looking for value-added opportunities.  It also means that our rates must reflect the local market.  We have gained the confidence of our clients not only by our performance but also by our commitment to personal integrity and the highest ethical standards. 

Our clients often have complex matters. We believe that they are best served through a full service business law firm model that responds to every aspect of their needs.

Our practice areas have included, corporate/commercial and transactional work including family business matters, venture capital, business incubation for entrepreneurs, banking and finance, capital markets, securities, pensions, trusts, unit trusts and mutual funds, credit unions and co-operatives, energy and natural resources, dispute resolution including mediation, civil litigation and arbitration, real estate, probate and administration, intellectual property, legislative and regulatory matters, industrial relations, employment and employee benefit matters, franchise agreements, procurement and construction law, media, entertainment, technology and telecommunications and defamation. We can even offer cutting edge public international environmental law experience, with a focus on climate change and UN negotiations. 

We are not a boutique practice.  We provide highly sophisticated, partner-level service, recognizing that our clients have other alternatives for their legal needs.

Our Attorneys at law are experienced, analysing and seeking to solve clients’ legal problems in a practical, real world manner. We focus on achieving results that justify the cost of complex legal services.

We are a single cohesive law firm, and not a collection of silos operating under one banner.  We deliberately foster an ethos of collaboration, informal consultation and intellectual interaction among our attorneys.  We know that although the times require increasing specialisation by individual lawyers, legal problems can oftenspread across several legal specialties. Our attorneys regularly collaborate across their specialist practice areas in order better to serve the needs of our clients. 

We value engagement in our community and pro bono work for those less fortunate.  We recognize the legal profession has a unique role to play in serving the public, just as our clients make important contributions to the community.  Collectively, these and similar contributions make Trinidad and Tobago a leader in the Caribbean region and sustain the businesses which operate here.  We do not view community engagement as a separate activity but as central to the practice of law.

During the course of our law practice, we have provided bursaries to students matriculating at the University of the West Indies. For over two decades, one of our Partners was a member of the UWI Development and Endowment Fund which assists the University of the West Indies by providing funding for scholarships, research, endowment of Chairs, lectureship and funding of capital projects. Over the years, our partners have done pro bono work for charitable organizations and served without pay on government-appointed committees and task forces.

When the need arises and for large projects, our firm enters alliances with other attorneys, local or overseas. We have worked on projects with international organisations, as well as Caribbean and foreign law firms and consultants.

We believe that the practice of law has fundamentally changed and that a law firm organized on modern lines is necessary to best serve clients today and in the future. We deploy the latest technologies in order to enhance efficiency and responsiveness. We are fully engaged in building a premier business law firm in today's world which requires a different approach, demands a new model, using modern technology and maximizing efficiencies and reordering the work environment to enhance productivity and client service. Most importantly, our model puts clients first by delivering affordable, sophisticated services that produce results to the clients' bottom line. Our client relationships are based on mutual trust and respect and our ultimate goal is client satisfaction.