Emma Riach

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Emma’s Caribbean practice follows on from the first decade of her career between Paris, London and the UK’s M4 technology corridor.  Emma qualified first as a barrister and completed pupillages at leading chambers at Middle Temple & Lincoln’s Inn in London, subsequently she cross-qualified as a solicitor.  Emma worked initially for one of the Big 6 accounting firms in Paris for 4 years and then an intellectual property boutique law firm in Surrey, UK.  At both firms she mainly advised intellectual property & technology Fortune 500 companies regarding contentious and non–contentious matters between the UK, EU and North America.

Based in the Caribbean for over two decades, from the mid-2000’s Emma expanded her existing areas of expertise to include real estate (acting for developers and individual investors), general private client, HNW, estates, trusts, holding structures and bespoke Caribbean businesses.

Emma has worked and personally lived in four tax-efficient jurisdictions: Anguilla, Bermuda, Monaco and Turks & Caicos Islands, and advises clients in respect to legal matters in respect to several other desirable Caribbean jurisdictions.  This breadth of hands on experience has enhanced her understanding and ability to propose practical solutions across the Caribbean and Transatlantic pertaining to off-shore real estate, residency, lifestyle investment & general structuring for highly global clients.

She has been ranked for many years by Chambers Directory.

• Acting for UHNWI clients regarding trusts, succession planning, real estate, permanent residency rights and collaborating with their on-shore global advisers in all corners of the world
• Advising beneficiaries in relation to their rights under a discretionary trust and co-ordinating with the trustee and trust protector, where the trustee and assets are based in different Transatlantic off-shore jurisdictions
• Assisting an eastern Caribbean based fund manager with anti-money laundering compliance and inquiries by the Regulators in different Caribbean jurisdictions
• Advising on operational documents in the northern Caribbean for a large beach front 5-star branded hotel/condominium resort
• Acting for a developer in the northern Caribbean of a new outer-island luxury villa marina lifestyle development

• England & Wales (1994)
• Turks & Caicos Islands  
• Anguilla
• France (retained full EU rights to work and advise on common law)

• University of London (King’s College), LLB
• Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris), Post-Graduate Course in French Law
• University of Bristol, Post-Graduate Diploma in IP law & Practice

• Commonwealth Lawyers Association
• Women in Law, Turks & Caicos