Phone: 868 299 0981
Mobile: 868 350-6001
2011: Trinidad & Tobago
Melissa is a Partner in Hamel-Smith’s Transactional Department.
Melissa’s focus is on corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions; banking and financing; capital market transactions; commercial real estate transactions and the regulation of the financial and capital markets in Trinidad and Tobago.
Melissa is results and solutions oriented. She is passionate about client service and prioritizes achieving her client’s commercial objective in a timely and cost-efficient manner, while having a keen understanding of the local law and regulation.
Melissa Inglefield is featured in this directory with a Band 3 ranking among the corporate/commercial lawyers in Trinidad & Tobago. A sample of the commentaries reported by Chambers Global include:
Melissa Inglefield advises on an array of finance transactions and capital markets issuances. Her name is well known to fellow professionals, who judge her to be one of Trinidad’s most impressive younger lawyers. “Melissa has a wonderfully calm demeanour; matched with her competence and diligence, she is a dream to work alongside for our challenging transactions.” – 2023
“Melissa presents complicated concepts and structures in an easily digestible format.” “I found her to be very accessible. She offered alternative approaches in dealing with issues and also provided solid technical advice.” – 2022
From 2020-2021 Melissa was ranked Up-and-Coming among the corporate/commercial lawyers in Trinidad & Tobago:
Melissa Inglefield as “someone who has demonstrated impeccable work product, has a good approach and is very commercially minded.” She advises on an array of finance transactions and capital markets issuances, and her name is well known to fellow professionals, who judge her to be” a very good and solid younger lawyer.” – 2021
Up-and-coming lawyer Melissa Inglefield is praised for “her thoroughness – she clearly does very good and wide-ranging research.” She maintains a focus on banking and securities regulation, and additionally handles secured lending and capital markets transactions. One source said: “Her opinion work is of a very high level.” – 2020
Author: “Acquisition of Control” featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper in April 2023
Author: “Share Purchase Acquisitions in T&T” featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper in September 2022
Author: “Take-over bids” – featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper on May 22, 2022
Author: “Courting legal business relations” – featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper on February 6, 2022
Author: “Role and responsibilities of a Director” – featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper on Sept. 29, 2021
Author: “Forms of Financing-Traditional is not always trump” – featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper on April 25, 2021
Author: “The Path to Becoming Listed” – featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper on December 6, 2020;
Author: Contractual Notice Requirements – It’s in the details… featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper on September 13, 2020;
Author: You Gotta Have (GOOD) Faith, Faith, Faith… Or Do You?, Hamel-Smith Forum Vol. 11 Issue 5, August 2020 and also featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper;
Contributed to the Lex Mundi Chapter on the topic of COVID-19 Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring with a Focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, May 18, 2020;
Author: A Company Medical – How Healthy Is Your Company? Hamel-Smith Forum, Vol. 10 Issue 6, April 2019 and also featured in the T&T Guardian newspaper
Co-Author: Revisiting Cross Border Secured Financing Part II: The Security Package, Hamel-Smith Forum, Vol. 10 Issue 3, January 2018
Co-Author: The Securities (Amendment) Act, 2014: A Step Forward, Hamel-Smith Forum, November 2014
Co-Author: Access to the Foreign Market – The Securities Act, 2012!, Hamel-Smith Forum, October 2013
Co-Author: Issuers and Investors Beware: The Securities Act 2012 is Here, Hamel-Smith Forum, March 2013
Co-Author: Negligent Valuations… You Stand To Lose, Hamel-Smith Forum, October 2011
2014: Provided training to several local entities on the repercussions of insider trading restrictions (contained in the Securities Act, 2012).
2013: Assisted with the preparation of a presentation for a local financial institution regarding the the Securities Act, 2012.
2012: Conducted Mortgage training at a local financial institution.
2021: Certificate of Participation – Finance for Directors Masterclass (The Board’s Role in Financial Stewardship and Financial Oversight), April 16, 2021;
2010: Legal Practicing Certificate (L.P.C), The College of Law of England & Wales
2009: LL.B (Hons), The University of Manchester, UK