The Legal 500

Legal Developments in Guernsey

• 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