Section One · The Mission

Counsel kept with intention.

Excelsior is a boutique firm in St George’s, Grenada – multilingual advocates and PhD-level professionals working across languages, borders, jurisdictions and legal systems. From shaping land developments to preserving legacies, we move with precision, insight and intention.

In the courtroom or at the negotiation table, our litigators and advisors bring clarity to conflict and confidence to every decision. Welcome to Excelsior. Ever Upward.

Plate I · The harbour at St George's · oil on canvas
FOR THE CONSIDERED CLIENT

A Caribbean position, found and finalised.

Grenada sits south of the hurricane belt, common-law in its institutions, mature in its judiciary, earlier in its arc than its better-known neighbours. For families seeking land, residence, structure or a second citizenship, Excelsior guides the entire journey.

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Insight

Intention

Discretion

Ever Upward

Precision

Section Two · The Place

A Place of spice, sea.& legacy

Excelsior is a boutique firm in St George’s, Grenada – multilingual advocates and PhD-level professionals working across languages, borders, jurisdictions and legal systems. From shaping land developments to preserving legacies, we move with precision, insight and intention.

Section Three · Counsel

Eight areas of careful work

The same senior bench across every matter – the same patience, irrespective of the matter’s complexion. Taxation, asset protection and private client services run through everything we do.

Family Law & Private Client

Divorce · Division of assets · Children · Protection

Conveyancing, Real Estate & Land Law

Purchase & sale · Title · Land litigation · Development

Commercial & General Litigation

Disputes · Insolvency · Constitutional · Enforcement

Trusts, Wealth & Private Client

Trust formation · Fiduciary · Family office · Asset protection

Wills, Probate & Estate Planning

Wills · Testamentary trusts · Probate · Administration

Taxation & Asset Management

Tax structuring · Residence · Asset management & protection

Notarial, Apostille & Company Services

Apostille · Notarisation · Company formation

Maritime, Immigration & Citizenship

Yachts · Flag registration · Immigration · International Migration

Section Four · Our Offices

An international firm, anchored in Grenada.

Physical offices in Grenada – on the mainland in St George’s and on Carriacou in the Grenadines – together with offices in London, Italy and Canada. Our matters reach clients from Canada and Kurdistan to London and Italy, and we provide notarial services across them all.

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Mainland · St George’s

Grenada

Our home bench in St George’s — property, private wealth, development, litigation and notarial services.

 
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Grenadines · West Indies

Carriacou

Our second Grenadian office, serving Carriacou and the Grenadines on land, family and estate matters.

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London

European office — cross-border estate disputes, child-custody matters, arbitration and Privy Council appeals.

 
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Italy

Continental office supporting international estate administration, asset tracing and cross-border family matters.

 
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Canada

North-American office — cross-border estates, property and family law, advising local counsel as an expert.

 
Section Five · The People

ASenior hand on every file.

Gennilyn E. Ettienne

CHAIR & MANAGING PARTNER

Trusted Advocate. Strategic Mind. Skilful Friend. Twenty-three years and more across every court that sits in the Eastern Caribbean – and, as an expert, before courts in London, New Jersey and beyond.

Dr. Clifford J. Frank

SENIOR TRUST & TAX CONSULTANT

More than thirty years at the bar – the senior consultant whose experience, combined with the founder’s, gives the firm over fifty years of expertise.

Tamara Adams

INTERNATIONAL TAX CONSULTANT

Internationally trained tax counsel advising on the tax implications of cross-border estates, structures and investments.

Section Six · Insights

Briefings & legal insight.

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Development in Grenada

From a single villa to a sixty-acre resort — what an attorney watches for, in the order it tends to matter.
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Spotlight on Investment in Grenada

Grenada's quiet moment — south of the hurricane belt, common-law, and earlier in its arc than its better-known neighbours.