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Maples and Calder

SEA MEADOW HOUSE, PO BOX 173, ROAD TOWN, TORTOLA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

Tortola, London, Hong Kong, Grand Cayman, Dublin, Dubai

What we say about the firm's legal practice in British Virgin Islands

Corporate and commercial

Within Corporate and commercial , Maples and Calder is a second tier firm,

Maples and Calder's former joint managing partner Clinton Hempel left in 2010 but the firm welcomed Richard May from Walkers. May is the corporate and investment funds head, and advises on M&A, joint ventures, stock exchange listings and corporate reorganisations. Kieran Walsh is global head of the BVI law practice, and assists clients both originating from Latin America and investing into the Latin American region.

Dispute resolution

Within Dispute resolution , Maples and Calder is a first tier firm,

Maples and Calder's Arabella di Iorio is recommended. The team acted in a dispute between Cukurova companies and Alfa Telecom Turkey regarding the appropriation and ownership of shares in subsidiaries of Cukurova.

Legal market overview

Within Legal market overview,

International offshore law practices Harney Westwood & Riegels and Ogier are the largest and second largest firms in the BVI respectively. Conyers Dill & Pearman, Maples and Calder, Walkers and Appleby are the other major international law firms present. Local BVI firms, including Forbes Hare and O'Neal Webster - Barristers & Solicitors, merit mention.

Trusts/private client

Within Trusts/private client, Maples and Calder is a third tier firm,

Maples and Calder advises financial institutions and foreign governments, as well as some of the world's wealthiest individuals, on both Cayman Islands and BVI private and commercial trust structures. Cayman-based partner Justin Appleyard is the global trust and private client group head. Litigator Arabella di Iorio is well regarded.

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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