Dia C. Forrester

Dia C. Forrester joined Joseph Rowe in 2023 in Grenada and chairs its Litigation Team. Ms. Forrester is a highly experienced practitioner at both the private and public bar.

Between 2019 to 2022, Ms. Forrester served as Grenada’s Attorney General acting as chief legal adviser to the Government on domestic, regional and international law and, as Solicitor General heading the litigation team of the Government. Additionally, Ms. Forrester was a Partner in private practice as a leading litigator and transactional lawyer in St. Kitts and Nevis.

She has extensive experience in corporate and project financing inclusive of debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate, joint venture and shareholder issues, claims involving financial institutions and banks, contractual disagreements, complex commercial, construction, insolvency and trusts litigation, constitutional law motions, judicial review, energy law with a focus on renewable energy inclusive of geothermal energy and, real estate development.

Ms. Forrester appears before the High Court and Court of Appeal in the Eastern Caribbean and served briefly as a High Court Judge in the jurisdiction. She has appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice in its original jurisdiction in the First Advisory Opinion acting as advocate in response to a request for the interpretation of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which treaty established the Caribbean Community in relation to the free movement of people within the community. She is open for engagements to the Privy Council and to serve as an Arbitrator.