Professional Profile
Al Carlisle Elliot is the Managing Partner and founder of A. C. ELLIOT ATTORNEYS, overseeing the strategic operations of the firms dual offices in St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Elliot began his legal practice in 2005, and established the law firm in 2006, building a formidable reputation over two decades of dual-jurisdictional legal practice.
For the first ten years of his career, Elliot focused intensely on courtroom advocacy, logging extensive litigation hours across all levels of the civil and criminal courts in both jurisdictions. Today, he leverages that litigation foundation to focus on his core practice areas, which include corporate law, contract negotiation, and investment portfolio management. Under his executive supervision, the firm maintains highly active departments in civil litigation, criminal law, family law, conveyancing and property law, the administration of estates and trusts, corporate legal services and advice, trademarks and patents.
A significant component of Mr. Elliot’s modern practice revolves around sophisticated investor portfolio management, structuring capital investments and projects, providing secure banking solutions and integrating foreign direct investment with targeted public sector initiatives. As a legal consultant on emerging markets, he has been retained by public sector bodies to review and advise on complex legislative frameworks. His previous consultative work has been instrumental in shaping modern regulatory frameworks for fintech services, online gaming, virtual asset businesses, and the medicinal cannabis industry. He also actively represents high-profile private sector entities navigating these rapidly evolving, high-growth markets.
Mr. Elliot manages ACE Corporate Services, a niche entity of the law firm, specialized for onshore and offshore corporate legal services, management, fiduciary financial services and advice. Together with the firm’s dedicated team of professionals, his work in this licensed and regulated space, has produced and kept hundreds of solvent corporate entities that are continuously growing and evolving over several years. To learn more about the specialized corporate services, visit the firm’s Ace Corporate Services platform.
Parallel to his private client work, he often channels his passion for civic responsibility through dedicated community service and offering pro-bono counsel for young entrepreneurs and start-up companies.
He is called to practice at the Bar in St. Lucia, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.
Academic Background
• Legal Education Certificate (L.E.C) – Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad & Tobago
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Hons.) – University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
• Valedictorian of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College – 1999
Professional Experience
• Alberton Richelieu & Associates – 2005 – 2006
• Janice Clarence-Quamina Law Chambers (Trinidad) – 2004
• St. Lucia’s High Court Registry – 2003
• Parliamentary Commissioner’s Office – 2002
• OECS Judicial Review Project – June – August 2001
• Inland Revenue Department, Government of St. Lucia – 2000
• The Bank of Nova Scotia – September 1999
Other Professional Engagements
• Board Member of St. Lucia’s Trade Licence Advisory Committee 2021 – current
• Legal attaché and consultant to the Government of St. Vincent and theGrenadines on the development of trade interests in the emerging petro-stateof the Co-operative Republic of Guyana – 2022
• Consultant to the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on the legalframework for the establishment of a Plant-based Medicinal Industry 2019
• Legal Counsel for St. Lucia’s Air & Sea Ports Authority – 2012 – 2016
• President of the Optimist Club of St. Lucia – 2013