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ARTICLE · 06 MARCH 2009

Too Many Captives?

Congratulations! Despite the volatile market conditions permeating the business world, you may have acquired a business in continuation of the growth of your operations.

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Congratulations! Despite the volatile market conditions permeating the business world, you may have acquired a business in continuation of the growth of your operations. You have an existing Cayman Islands captive insurance company (having discovered the multiple benefits arising from having such a vehicle in your group) but your new acquisition also has a captive insurance company, providing similar or complementary insurance to that of your existing captive. Alternatively, at some point you may have established a second captive for a particular program or other reasons but the rationale for a separate captive has now fallen away.

What can you do? Often, one of the captive insurance companies can be put into run-off ("Sub A"), thereby reducing regulatory fees, and you can transfer programs and insurance policies into the still active company ("Sub B"). However, frequently Sub A still has outstanding liabilities under its former insurance programs. This requires Sub

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