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

Development on a Caribbean island is not the same as development on the mainland. The land is older in its title history, the regulators know each other, and the sea does what it does.

Title comes first. We start every project by walking the chain back as far as it will go. Encumbrances that are not on the register but very much in the village’s memory must be uncovered before contracts are written.

Structure follows. A resort project usually sits inside a holding company, often with sub-vehicles for the operating business, the rental pool, and the residential component.

Finally, the long life of the asset. A well-drafted project is one whose contracts are still working ten years after the developer has moved on. That is the quiet test of the work.