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The Private Investment Fund Rules ("PIF") regime was updated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission ("GFSC") in 2021 to expand the available PIF product options.

This article explores the collapse of three funds across three different jurisdictions and then sets out some of the lessons to be learnt by directors and fund managers.

This advisory summarises the current Work Permit Policy adopted and applied by Guernsey's Committee for Home Affairs.

We have seen growing interest over the last year in tokenisation of securities. In this briefing, we set out what tokenisation is (and isn't), how it works, how we think it is likely...

Guernsey introduced its form of limited liability partnership with effect from 13 May 2014 in response to increasing demand for this type of structure in Guernsey.

Carey Olsen is proud to have sponsored the 7th annual INSOL International Channel Islands Seminar which took place in Jersey on 14 September 2021.

The main difference between a Foundation and a Trust is that a Foundation is a legal entity and owns its assets in its own right as opposed to a Trust, where the assets are legally owned by the Trustees, ...

This briefing note provides an outline of the different processes of voluntary winding up and striking off under the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended) (the "Law").

Guernsey is a leading financial services centre. With its excellent reputation and local legal and accounting resources, it has increasingly become a popular jurisdiction in which to incorporate a company.

The Royal Court has recently handed down the final decision in the matter of Eagle Holdings Limited (in compulsory liquidation). In this decision, the Royal Court of Guernsey provided guidance and assistance...

In modern Guernsey trust practice, trustees are commonly vested with both a power of advancement and a power of appointment.

A company that has been struck off the Guernsey register of companies can, in certain circumstances apply to be restored to the register in accordance with the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008.

Special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs") or "cash shells" are back in fashion. We are seeing greater interest than ever before in the use of these vehicles.

A few years ago, I suspect that very few people would have understood what was meant by ESG and those who did probably saw it as an esoteric sub-group of marginal interest.

It is rare that directors foreshadow claims against them, and often claims arise with little if any warning, from what directors may consider to have been historic transactional decision-making.

Granted, the Marks & Spencer reference may have worked slightly better prior to their recent cyber difficulties but, when is a trustee not just a trustee? When it's a private trust company (PTC)...