Jeanelle Pran was appointed as the Secretary/ Director on the Board of Arrive Alive on June 8th 2022.
Jeanelle is an Attorney-at-Law at M. Hamel-Smith & Co. She commenced practice as a litigation attorney in the firm’s Dispute and Risk Management Practice Group but is now practicing in the firm’s Transactional Practice Group. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B), First Class Honours, from Queen Mary, University of London in 2016 and completed the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) at BPP University in London in 2017. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 2017 by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and to the Bar of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in May 2018.
She has experience in Commercial Debt Collection, Corporate, Commercial and Business Transactions, Banking and Finance, Competition Law and General Corporate and Commercial Law.
She is a prolific writer, having written for the T&T Guardian Newspaper and AMCHAM T&T Linkage Magazine on a diverse range of subject matters including contract law, mergers and acquisitions, managing litigation, intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, and upcoming and trending legislation. Some of her articles include:
- From Inception to Termination – Mergers & Acquisitions, featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper in August 2022.
- So You’ve Received a Pre-Action Protocol Letter: How to Manage the Litigation Process, featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper in March 2021.
- Messy Contract, featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper in October 11, 2020.
- Legislation to Watch: (Non-Profit Organisations Act 2019, Civil Asset Recovery and Management And Unexplained Wealth Act No. 8 of 2019, Cybercrime Bill 2017), featured in AMCHAM T&T Linkage Issue 2 of 2019.
