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Withers

PO BOX 2424. LITTLE DENMARK, 3RD FLOOR, ROAD TOWN, TORTOLA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

Tel:: Work +284 494 4949
Fax:: Fax +284 494 4947

Web:: www.withersworldwide.com
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Significant developments within the BVI legal market include Walkers' former corporate and finance partner Richard May joining Maples and Calder, and the latter's joint managing partner Clinton Hempel, who was also a senior corporate partner, retiring from the firm. Withers arrived in the market in 2009, and is mostly focused on litigation, but it is yet to make a serious splash in the market.

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Arrivederci Euro? The potential impact of Italy’s exit from the Euro on Italian contracts

by Vittorio Tommasone

- Studio Legale Associato con Withers LLP

Legal Developments in British Virgin Islands

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Through The Open Window - Leveraging Cross-Jurisdictional Opportunities For BVI Property Transfers

Arare congruence of exemptions under the US and BVI tax codes has prompted United States (“U.S.”) citizens holding British Virgin Island (“BVI”) property to undertake inter vivos transfers to their heirs during 2012.

- O'Neal Webster - Barristers & Solicitors
BVI Funds Update: Exemption from Requirement to appoint Custodian and Manager

On 15 March 2012 the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (the “Commission”) published guidelines for practitioners requesting exemptions for funds from the requirement to appoint a manager, custodian or both (the “Guidelines”).

- Bedell Cristin
VISTA trusts

Different style - Vanessa King looks at VISTA trusts eight years on

- O'Neal Webster - Barristers & Solicitors
FINANCE 2012

British Virgin Islands

- O'Neal Webster - Barristers & Solicitors
Investment funds in the BVI

BVI Funds - Legal and structuring considerations

- Ogier
A Brief guide to... British Virgin Islands

So far as tourism is concerned, the British Virgin Islands (the BVI) is described as "Nature's Little Secrets"; in the financial services industry this could not be further from the truth.

- Bedell Cristin
Eastern Caribbean Court of Appral considers enforcement issues in Alfa v Cukurova

On 20 July 2011 the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (“ECCA”) handed down the latest decision in the long running case of Alfa Telecom Turkey Limited v Cukurova Finance International Limited and Cukurova Holdings AS.

- Harney Westwood & Riegels
Changes to the EU Savings Tax Regime in the British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands’ Mutual Legal Assistance (Tax Matters) Act, 2003 as amended in 2005 (the “Act”) has given effect in the BVI to EC Directive 2003/48 on the taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments (the “Directive”) for the last six tax years.

- Harney Westwood & Riegels
CONTINUATION OF A FOREIGN COMPANY INTO THE BVI

Companies often consider “what if” they could transfer to another jurisdiction based on what is currently happening in their current jurisdiction or simply to take advantage of developments within another jurisdiction.

- O'Neal Webster - Barristers & Solicitors
DIRECTORS DUTIES – A BVI PERSPECTIVE

Directors of British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) companies have certain fiduciary duties which arise both at common law and under statute. These fiduciary duties ultimately seek to protect companies and their shareholders whose destiny lie primarily in the hands of the directors in charge.the hands of the directors in charge.

- O'Neal Webster - Barristers & Solicitors