Christopher Alexander Bota McNamara

Bota McNamara is a Partner in the Caribbean & Offshore Practice Group and Commercial Litigation Practice Group at WeirFoulds LLP.

Bota’s practice traverses between Ontario and the Eastern Caribbean and encompasses two core areas: insolvency and restructuring with an emphasis on asset recovery and sophisticated commercial transactions, and litigation in complex multi-jurisdictional commercial proceedings.

Bota has acted for several major international banks, international hotel chains, regional insurance companies, international airlines, foreign governments, utility companies, oil companies, local businesses and individuals with business interests in the Caribbean providing counsel and assisting on matters throughout the Eastern Caribbean.

Bota’s practice benefits from the synergies that exist between the Caribbean, Canada and the United Kingdom in both the practice of law and business. Having been called to the bar in these three regions allows him to effectively advise clients and assist them with the resolution of their disputes.

Bota has appeared as counsel before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the High Court and Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is called to the Bars of Ontario, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, England & Wales, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Belize.

Acted as counsel to an American receiver appointed over the assets of a group of companies spanning the BVI to Saint Lucia. The primary assets were a hotel and marina complex in Marigot Bay. The three-year-long receivership required advice on all aspects of law in relation to the operation of a hotel and marina including obtaining operational financing of US $3M and settling of homeowner claims. After ensuring the collection of all the assets of the receivership and the negotiations for the sale of assets were entered into leading to the eventual realization for the benefit of the creditors in the amount of US $14M.