BIOGRAPHY

Willa Tavernier advises the firm on business development and knowledge management, leading internal projects to maximize the value of legal knowledge resources. She provides guidance on initiatives for outreach and enhancing client service delivery, and supports attorneys’ business development efforts.

Willa previously practiced at O’Neal Webster. For over 15 years she advised government institutions, high net-worth individuals, and commercial clients on complex commercial arrangements. These spanned joint ventures, development agreements, public-private partnerships, infrastructure agreements, and other complex commercial arrangements, as well as transactional real estate.

Before joining O’Neal Webster, Willa served as Senior Legal Officer at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, where she worked on banking and securities regulation and development finance matters.

Willa is admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in St. Kitts and Nevis, the British Virgin Islands, and Antigua & Barbuda. She studied law at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and attended the Norman Manley Law School in Kingston, Jamaica, before pursuing advanced degrees in the United States.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Through The Open Window – Leveraging Cross-Jurisdictional Opportunities For BVI Property Transfers
• Dealing with shares of a deceased shareholder in a BVI company
• Court of Appeal solidifies its position on fact-based appeals
• When Inspection Fails
• Selling Property 101
• Own a Home? Join the Club
• Across the Divide – Real Estate Representation in the Virgin Islands
• Investing in ONE Virgin Islands – A Practical Guide for Potential Purchasers
• A Country of Proud Landowners
• Owning Property in the BVI

RECENT ARTICLES

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  The Latest Developments in the BVI’s Business-Friendly Corporate Law Regime 

  The Business Licensing Act, 2022, which supplements the Virgin Islands Investment Act passed in 2021, has recently been enacted (August 2022). These two acts collectively aim to increase investment by... Read More

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  British Virgin Islands: A Country of Proud Landowners

  By Willa Tavernier, O’Neal Webster BVI. What was once a group of islands thought to be settled by accident rather than by design, has now, rather aptly, been termed “the treasure under our... Read More

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  O’Neal Webster Attorneys Recognized for Six Consecutive Years on IFC Powerwomen Top 200 List

  October 5, 2018 – TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – The prestigious International Finance Center (IFC) Citywealth Powerwomen Top 200 List has been released for 2018, recognizing successful profess... Read More

• Five O’Neal Webster Attorneys Named to Private Client Directory of Globally Recommended Wealth Managers and Advisers

  TORTOLA, July 1, 2017 — O’Neal Webster is pleased to announce that five partners were named to Citywealth’s 2017 Leaders List, the private client directory of recommended wealth managers and adv... Read More