Corporate & Property Law
A specialist chambers in Rodney Bay giving private clients, companies and overseas law firms direct access to experienced barristers, with personal attention on every matter.
About the Chambers
We work only in corporate law and property law. Because our practice is narrow, we can offer close attention to detail and make sure every client gets current, direct legal solutions promptly and at a sensible cost.
RDM Chambers was established in 2015 by Rhory David McNamara to provide focused legal services to the offshore clients of McNamara Corporate Services Inc., a licensed and regulated corporate service provider in Saint Lucia. The Chambers also advises overseas law firms, private clients and corporate clients on corporate, property and right-of-establishment matters.
As a small chambers with a specialised practice, we give every client a responsive, high-quality service.
Corporate and property law only. That depth is what we offer.
You work with a senior barrister from your first call to completion.
We work alongside leading accounting and legal firms abroad.
Practice Areas
Specialist advice across six closely related areas of Saint Lucian corporate and property law.
Advice on every part of offshore structures that use Saint Lucia International Business Companies and other entities. With our partner accounting and legal firms abroad, we advise on correct tax practice and help put support services in place so your offshore presence is robust and performs well.
Saint Lucia's offshore sector allows domestic and offshore companies to work together, and we handle incorporation, management and annual filings for both. We also handle trade licence applications, work permits and external company (branch office) applications so foreign entities and individuals can operate legally in Saint Lucia.
Complete support for buying or selling commercial and private real estate in Saint Lucia:
Guidance for individuals and families applying under Saint Lucia's Citizenship by Investment Programme, established by the Citizenship by Investment Act (No. 14 of 2015), and on rights of residency and establishment in Saint Lucia.
Drawing on long experience with corporate clients, we advise on corporate restructuring, putting in place or reworking the mechanisms, processes and relationships through which a company is directed and controlled. The aim is a sound internal governance framework that divides rights and responsibilities correctly within a corporate structure.
As Saint Lucia's standing as an offshore jurisdiction grows, lenders, borrowers and contracting parties increasingly need to know that their structures and agreements comply with Saint Lucian law. We review, advise and give opinions on contract and security documents, procedures and requirements so they can be executed and, where needed, registered successfully.
“Every client receives my personal service backed by proven results.”
Our Barristers
Principal
Rhory is a UK-trained and qualified barrister. From 2000 to 2007 he practised as a junior attorney at the family firm of McNamara & Co., under the guidance of his grandfather the late Desmond McNamara Q.C., CBE, his father Stephen McNamara CBE and his uncle Anthony McNamara Q.C. In 2007 he became a partner, responsible for banking law, corporate law and corporate and private conveyancing.
In 2000 Rhory also founded McNamara Corporate Services Inc. and served as its Managing Director. That work led him to establish his own chambers, offering tailored service and support to selected clients and to clients of McNamara Corporate Services Inc.
Rhory sits on the boards of several prominent private and public companies in Saint Lucia and abroad. He has been President of the St. Lucia Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities since 2003.
Outside the office, Rhory is a certified private pilot and a qualified powerboat captain, and pursues both actively.
Barrister
Charon is a UK-trained and qualified barrister who completed her professional bar qualifications at the Inns of Court School of Law. She was called to the Bar in 2002. After a year and a half in private practice she joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, serving as Crown Counsel until 2007.
She was then appointed Magistrate in the Family Court and the First and Second District Courts, serving until October 2013. She went on to serve as both Registrar of Civil Status and Registrar of the Supreme Court until February 2016, and continued as Registrar of the Supreme Court until May 2019.
Charon then spent a period outside the courts as Director of the Performance Management and Delivery Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister, tracking targets for the Medium-Term Development Strategy across six key result areas. Before joining RDM Chambers she was Master at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court from May 2021 to August 2022.
Outside work, Charon runs and swims, and has completed both a marathon and a triathlon. She is also learning Korean.
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Whether you are buying property, structuring a company or need an opinion on Saint Lucian law, contact us for a confidential conversation.