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“We are delighted to announce that AFR has achieved the Keep Guernsey Green Award. It was recognised earlier this year that as a Guernsey firm we should be doing much more to reduce, re-use and re-cycle and assume a corporate responsibility”, said Peter Atkinson, Senior Partner.

Atkinson Ferbrache Richardson welcomes two new commercial lawyers

January 2008. Press Releases by AFR Advocates (view listing).

Atkinson Ferbrache Richardson are delighted to announce the appointment of two new lawyers to the firm, Michael Sproule and Michael McKean.

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Redundancy in Guernsey

In this time of recession redundancies are unfortunately inevitable as employers look at ways of trimming costs, or business begins to dry up.

- AFR Advocates

Legal Developments in Guernsey

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Image rights laws to be introduced in Guernsey

“Image is everything” - Andre Agassi once famously declared in an advert for camera brand, Canon.

- Carey Olsen
Structured finance and securitisation transactions with a Guernsey element

Basics of a Guernsey company

- Carey Olsen
Guernsey cash box structures

Following a period of turmoil in the financial markets, issuers have been viewing cash box structures as an attractive financing tool to facilitate share and convertible bond issues and to allow access to alternative sources of funding.

- Carey Olsen
Islamic finance and the use of Guernsey Special Purpose Vehicles

As a politically stable and fiscally advantageous financial centre, Guernsey is a prime jurisdiction in which to incorporate a special purpose vehicle (“SPV”) as the issuer of sukuk or as part of any other Islamic finance transaction.

- Carey Olsen
Private Equity 2012 Fund Formation Guernsey Chapter

What legal form of vehicle is typically used for private equity funds formed in your jurisdiction?

- Carey Olsen
Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) Rule Change Update

Ogier Corporate Finance Limited (OCFL) is the market leader in providing listing agent services for the listing of securities on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX or the Exchange) having sponsored over 445 listings.

- Ogier
Channel Island Stock Exchange, LBG - Listing of Securities of Investment Funds

The Channel Islands Stock Exchange, LBG (the Exchange or CISX) commenced operations on 27 October 1998 and is intended to provide recognised facilities for the listing and trading of securities issued by companies and investment funds.

- Ogier
Focus on: Guernsey

With the arrival of the new year, Mena FM talks to several industry experts about Guernsey as a fund domicile and its growing relationship with the Mena region and the products based there.

- Mourant Ozannes
Social Media: Legal Sector Review

It has become extremely easy to take a public tumble over Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, Alasdair Davidson discusses - published in Contact Magazine February/March 2012.

- Bedell Cristin
Investment funds in Guernsey

The investment funds industry in Guernsey has achieved significant growth in recent years. Statistics show that as at 30 June 2011 there was £274.5 billion of assets under management in Guernsey.

- Ogier