Myers Fletcher & Gordon

Commercial Department

Professional Overview 

Peter Goldson is the Firm’s Senior Partner and Head of its Intellectual Property Practice, with over three decades of experience advising on complex commercial, regulatory, and transactional matters. A former Managing Partner and Head of the Commercial Department, he is widely regarded as one of Jamaica’s most respected corporate lawyers. 

Practice Focus 

Mergers & Acquisitions,  Intellectual Property & Trade Marks,  Pensions,  Capital Markets & Securities,  Project Finance & Infrastructure,  Regulatory & Financial Services. 

Key Experience & Matters 

• Led MFG’s role in the proposed divestment of Jamaica’s sugar industry assets
  • Advised the University of the West Indies on procurement and construction of a LNG-powered cogeneration facility
  • Counsel to Tavistock on the Harmony Cove hotel and casino development
  • Led the Cable & Wireless (Jamaica) Limited scheme of arrangement and JSE delisting
  • Key adviser in multiple banking interventions and restructurings, including Century National Bank, Workers’ Savings & Loan Bank and FINSAC-related transactions 

Professional Engagement 

• Chairman, Advisory Board – Companies Office of Jamaica
  • Former Chairman, Jamaica Intellectual Property Office Advisory Board
  • Deputy Chairman, Jamaica International Financial Services Authority
  • Chairman & Secretary, Jamaica & Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Trust
  • Band 2, Chambers & Partners – General Business Law
  • Highly Regarded, IFLR1000
  • Recommended, WTR 1000 – Intellectual Property 

• BCL (First Class Honours), University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholar) • LL.B (Hons.), University of the West Indies • Certificate of Legal Education, Norman Manley Law School