Mr. Samuda’s practice includes Tourism, Corporate and Hotel Financing; Trade and Transportation; Mining and Energy; Sports and Entertainment; and Maritime Law. He has represented international and local financiers in major lendings for a variety of hotel and other projects and has acted for significant local and international hotel interests. In 2009, Mr. Samuda was appointed a resource person to the Jamaica Tourist Board. In his corporate practice, Mr. Samuda has acted in major divestments, public offers and private placements. Mr. Samuda is one of the few attorneys in Jamaica with a practice in Mining and Energy and he represents major international and local players in that sector.

Between 1993 and 1995, Mr. Samuda lived and practiced in the British Virgin Islands and that experience has given him particular expertise in the use of off-shore vehicles for private and business interests. In 2007, he was appointed to the Government’s International Finance Centre (IFC) Advisory Committee, a committee established to advise the Minister of Finance on establishing an IFC in Jamaica.

Mr. Samuda’s practice includes entertainment and sports. He has represented recording and publishing companies, artistes and songwriters, producers and actors, sports agents and sports organizations. He has also represented the West Indies Cricket Board and was, for a number of years, its Lead Attorney. He is the Chairman of Sabina Pak Holdings.

In his entertainment practice, Mr. Samuda is a member of the Competent Authority in respect of the Co-Production Film Treaty between the United Kingdom and Jamaica. He is also a Member of the Advisory Board of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office. In 1997, Mr. Samuda led Jamaica’s Bureau Negotiating Team to the Midem music conference in Cannes, France and again later that year, to the Midem Conference in Miami, Florida. Additionally, he has represented recording and publishing companies, artistes and songwriters, producers and actors, sportsmen, sports agents and sports organizations. He is a former member of the Industry Advisory Council to the Government of Jamaica on the Entertainment Industry.

Mr. Samuda is the President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Director of the RJR Communications Group, a major, publicly listed communications group and serves as the chairman of that Group’s television subsidiary, Television Jamaica Limited (TVJ). He is a director of Berger Paints Jamaica Limited, another publicly listed company, a director of National Outdoor Advertising Limited and is Chairman of the Institute of Law and Economics. The Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management of the Technology Innovation Centre, University of Technology, Jamaica, Mr. Samuda is also a member of the Board of Strategic Corporate Interventions Limited and of the Advisory Board of the Spanish Jamaican Foundation (a foundation established by Spanish Investors in Jamaica) and also serves as the Foundation’s Secretary. Mr. Samuda is also serves as Chairman of the Wolmer’s Trust and as a member of the Board of Management of the Wolmer’s Trust Schools.

A past Commissioner on Jamaica’s Anti-Dumping and Subsidies Commission, Mr. Samuda is also a former Chairman and director of both the YMCA and of the Jamaica Save the Children Fund, a former director of VOUCH (the Voluntary Organisation for the Upliftment of Children), the University Hospital of the West Indies, the UHWI Private Wing Limited, GSB Credit Union Limited and Jamaica Gypsum & Quarries Limited. Mr. Samuda was also a member of the Jamaican Coalition on the Rights of the Child.

Mr. Samuda is a director of OMS Associates Limited, a private construction and property management company; a director of Great House OmniMedia Limited, a marketing communications firm engaged in advertising, public relations and publishing; a director of Movements Dance Company of Jamaica; and serves as a member of other boards of private companies.

An Anglican, Mr. Samuda is married to Elizabeth and has three children, Matthew, Marlon and Mariana.

E-mail: m.samuda@mail.infochan.com

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