Eamon Harrison Courtenay S.C.
Senior Partner
E-mail: ecourtenay@courtenaycoye.com
Eamon Harrison Courtenay was born in Belize on June 11th 1960. He attended the University of Texas at Austin (B.A.), University of the West Indies, Barbados (L.L.B., Hons), and concluded his studies at Norman Manley Law School where he received his L.E.C. and won the Chairman’s Prize for top honors in the following subjects: Conveyancing, Succession, Status Rights & Obligation of the Legal Profession and Office Management & Accounts. Mr. Courtenay was admitted to practice in Belize in 1988.
His practice areas include: Administrative Law, Admiralty, Debtor and Creditor, Insurance, Personal Injury, Securities, Taxation, Trusts, Litigation, Commercial Law, Offshore Company Law, Banks and Banking Law.
Eamon has 20 years of professional experience. He is an active Member of the Belize Negotiating Team on the Resolution of the Belize Guatemala Territorial Dispute (1999- Present), W.H. Courtenay & Co. (1988-1999), a Senator, Leader of Government Business in the Senate, an Ambassador for Trade and Investment (Belize); Executive Chairman, BELTRAIDE (1999-2002), Senator and Attorney General and Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade (2003-2004), Deputy Chairman, Belize Bank (2005-2006), Senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (2006-2007), in November 2007 he was elected to the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent and currently an Attorney-at-Law at Courtenay Coye LLP, (Senior Partner).
Eamon is the author of the Belize Chapter in Asset Protection Domestic and International Law and Tactics (Clark Boardman Collaghan 1995), co-authored “A Practical Guide to the Gross Receipts Act and the Income Tax (Amendment) Act” (1994) and wrote several articles in “Offshore Investment Magazine” and the “OPEC Report” on trusts and taxation.
Languages: English; Spanish