Hughes Fields & Stoby was founded in 1972. It has since earned the reputation as one of Guyana’s leading Commercial Chambers. The core areas on which the reputation of the chambers has been built are commercial work including international and domestic banking , shipping, insurance , international sales, aviation , mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications, export trade and finance.

In addition to maintaining specialist expertise in these areas the Chambers has also responded in recent years to the changing requirements of its business clients and its members now engage in extensive commercial work including arbitration , building and engineering law, mining and exploration law, Public Utility Commissions and Constitutional matters.