About Us

N.D. Alfonso & Co. is a full-service law firm with over thirty (30) years’ experience in contentious and non-contentious maritime and commercial matters. The firm is primarily based in Trinidad and Tobago with satellite operations in Guyana offering a comprehensive range of legal services to our local, regional and international clientele.

Our firm has extensive experience in admiralty / maritime law in the areas of the judicial arrest and sale of vessels, maritime claims including breach of contract/ charterparty, collisions, cargo, insurance, tug and tow, salvage, piracy and arbitration. Our non-contentious maritime portfolio includes the drafting of contracts and charterparties, contracts of affreightment, bills of lading, ship sales and purchases as well as port management and operations. The firm has also represented and rendered advice to the Damen Shipyards Group, foreign ship owners/operators, including in the oil and gas sector, international insurance underwriters, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, including the Maritime Services Division and Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, as well as the Shipping Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

We have also worked on behalf of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) since 1993 in collaboration with its local affiliate union in Trinidad and Tobago, Seamen & Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union (SWWTU) and have been instrumental in crew claims, repatriation (including immigration issues) and the recovery of wages of hundreds of foreign and regional seafarers. Our firm has served the interests of particularly at-risk seafarers who have been abandoned by shipowners or other interests or subjected to detention by State authorities.

In the area of commercial and corporate law, our firm has extensive experience in commercial negotiations, commercial, corporate and contract law, insurance law, labour and industrial law, wrongful dismissal, severance and redundancy issues, employment contract negotiations, personal injuries claims and assessment of damages.

Our Public Law portfolio includes constitutional law claims and judicial review where issues of breaches of fundamental rights, non-discrimination and equality form our core values and are reflected in the manner we approach these claims. Our consultants also provide legal services in the areas of criminal and immigration law to local and foreign nationals.

N.D. Alfonso & Co. provides representation in complex litigation matters throughout the Caribbean and through our team of corresponding Counsel, which includes external Senior and Senior Junior Counsel of considerable experience and repute and through our robust network of industry professionals.