Myers & Alberga is committed to providing comprehensive service on a wide variety of legal and corporate matters in the Cayman Islands and on an international basis. As part of this commitment, we have developed associations with various international organizations  which enables our clients to have access to professional advice on a world wide scale.  Listed below ("Memberships and Associations") please find information on each organization and links to their respective web sites.  
In addition to the Firm's memberships and associations with various professional organizations Myers & Alberga can offer to its clients, the valuable benefit of a long standing working relationship and an established way of working with a leading set of Chambers at the London Bar. For further information on this area and a link to their respective web site, please see "Working Relationship."


WORKING RELATIONSHIP

Wilberforce Chambers

Wilberforce Chambers comprises 35 barristers, 12 of them appointed Queens Counsel and is based in Lincoln's Inn in London. These Chambers have considerable experience of the conduct of litigation in the Cayman courts and deliver a high quality service. Wilberforce Chambers barristers offer to Myers & Alberga clients a timely, responsive and cost-effective service. 
Wilberforce Chambers has recently been described as "the success story of the chancery bar". The UK directory Legal 500 says "the set's move to brand itself as a high quality set with high quality work has been incredibly successful showing the way for other sets." , "Outstanding for pensions work the set's chancery roots show in its strength in personal tax, estates, company and property work", ..its growing reputation for general commercial litigation Chambers and Partners directory said "leaders for traditional chancery work and with an excellent reputation in the commercial sphere too".
Wilberforce Chambers has a well-established reputation for its ability to combine imagination and intellectual rigor with practical advice and effective conduct of litigation over a wide range of work.
 Important Professional Issues
• Barristers practicing at the bar in England are independent practitioners in independent practice
• Barristers are required to be completely independent in conduct and to act only as consultants instructed by solicitors and other approved professionals.
• A practicing barrister must not enter into a professional partnership or any other form of unincorporated association with any person other than a barrister.
 To find out more details about Wilberforce Chambers and to see the individual membersí CVís and reported cases, visit their website.   


MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

State Capital Law Firm Group.

"The State Capital Law Firm Group is an organization of independent law firms that practice in their respective state, provincial and other capital cities around the world. The purpose of the Group is to allow its members to share information and expertise about the practice of law before various legislative, judicial, administrative, regulatory and executive bodies in the represented capital cities. The Group facilitates communications between its members to help them improve their ability to serve the needs of their individual clients."

Member firms of the State Capital Law Firm Group practice independently and not in a relationship for the joint practice of law.

International Business Law Consortium

"The International Business Law Consortium has been established by the Center for International Legal Studies as a means to assist International Business Law Consortium member law firms, corporate council, and accountancy firms in participating in the Center's publishing, conference, study and professional development programs, to further the research and scholarship programs of the Center and to enhance professional contact and the exchange of information among its members. "

The International Tax Planning Association.

"The International Tax Planning Association is a multi-disciplined association of some 1,200 bankers, trust officers, finance directors, accountants, lawyers and others with a practical interest in the tax aspects of cross-frontier transactions.  They examine our subject from the point of view of the taxpayer; our rules exclude from membership employees of tax departments. They were founded in  1975 and are the only association devoted solely to the study of this subject. The object of their Association is to disseminate and exchange information about international tax planning. This they do in three ways - through our meetings, through our publications and via the internet."

MSI Legal & Accounting Network Worldwide.

"MSI- Network.com is the worldwide business information center of MSI Legal & Accounting Network Worldwide, the global network of independent professional firms. MSI-Network.com provides business and professional firms with access to fully independent firms of lawyers, accountants, tax consultants, business advisers and off-shore services providers in more than 70 countries around the world. MSI-Network.com aims to make it easy for businesses to identify professional firms in foreign countries."

MSI Legal & Accounting Network Worldwide is a worldwide association of independent professional firms. Information about a member firm is available from that member firm. None of the member firms is in partnership with any other member firm.