Diana Wilson Patrick is a partner with the Barbados office of Lex Caribbean and leads the firm’s Finance and Capital Markets practice. The primary focus of Diana’s practice is corporate finance, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, often with a regional component; together with international business and project financing. She is regularly engaged by major international financial institutions and has worked on a number of cross border financings and advisory matters involving both international commercial financiers and multilateral financial institutions.

She began her career as a tax lawyer with KPMG in London and worked with Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer, a major international law firm, in their London Office before relocating to Jamaica, where she worked both in private practice and as head of the Legal Department at one of Jamaica’s leading commercial banks. Immediately prior to joining Lex Caribbean, Diana worked with the Caribbean Development Bank, a regional development financing institution based in Barbados, focusing mainly on the Bank’s private sector development division and regional transactions.

Diana has been a speaker at a number of industry events including the Euromoney Caribbean Investment Forum (2007) and has written for several journals. In 2010 she was included in The International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers and has been cited as a leading lawyer in the IFLR.

Diana has been admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales and has been called to the Bars of Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. She is a member of the International Bar Association and the Barbados and Jamaica Bar Associations.