US VIRGIN ISLANDS LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Marjorie Roberts, Sean Foster, Renée Marie André, Lisa Wisehart, David Bornn, Duncan J. J. Kessler and Jessica McKenney, Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC
Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC has decades of expe - rience in representing companies and individuals in business, securities, tax, trusts and estates and real estate matters. The firm’s clients are based in the USVI, the US mainland, other US territories and in - ternational locations. The firm also provides compre -
hensive estate planning services and advice regard - ing the requirements for bona fide USVI residency. Finally, of particular note, the firm represents clients before the USVI EDA, the UVI RTPark and other gov - ernment agencies as they seek economic incentives.
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Marjorie Roberts (“Jorie”) is the managing partner of Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC. She holds law degrees from Harvard Law School, Cambridge University and New York University, and previously worked for Gibson,
Renée Marie André is a partner with Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC. She represents clients before the EDC, as well as in probate, trusts and estates, real estate, corporate transactions and family law matters. Renée holds
Dunn & Crutcher, the US Treasury Department and the USVI Bureau of Internal Revenue, and as general counsel of Globalvest Management Company. Jorie specialises in territorial residency matters and income sourcing advice, among other areas. She is admitted to practise law in the USVI, the State of California, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the US Supreme Court, and before the US Tax Court. Jorie is also a solicitor in England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands.
degrees from Paine College in Georgia and the West Virginia University College of Law, where she was a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow and a Brown W Payne Scholar. She has also served as a federal judicial clerk at the US District Court of the Virgin Islands. Currently, Renée serves on the Court Improvement Project Committee for the Family Division of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands.
Lisa Wisehart graduated from Purdue University and received her JD from Indiana University Maurer School of Law – Bloomington, where she served as managing editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. Lisa
Sean Foster is a partner with Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC. He assists clients with the formation and design of new business ventures and the restructuring of existing business ventures to optimise tax efficiencies,
then clerked for the Indiana Court of Appeals for several years. She presently focuses on working with clients before the USVI EDA and the UVI RTPark (Lisa is not admitted to practise law in the USVI).
asset protection and wealth succession. Sean received a BBA cum laude from Texas Tech University and a JD cum laude from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to joining Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC, Sean was associated with Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver in Washington, DC. He is admitted to practise law in the USVI, Texas, Virginia and the District of Columbia, and is a solicitor in England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands.
David Bornn graduated from Trinity College and received his JD from Villanova University School of Law. He has practised transaction law since 1981 in the USVI and served as Chief Legal Counsel to Governor
Albert Bryan Jr. from 2018 through 2022. David is admitted to practise law in the USVI and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. David serves in a business advisory role to Marjorie Rawls Roberts PC.
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