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The FTX collapse has impacted the entire crypto industry, which is currently dominated by fear and shock. For one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, trusted by over a million users to collapse...

Currently, the world is undergoing huge levels of uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19).

His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar (‘HMGoG') has recently released a 25-Year Environmental Plan ("the Plan") setting out its ambitious goals and initiatives in creating a greener...

The Court of Appeal has upheld the judgment of Jack J in Minette Compson v The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Commission and Brian Weal v The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Commission.

The Financial Services Act 2019 (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2023 were published on Thursday 24th August 2023 and came into operation on the day of publication.

As a lawyer, academic writer, former member of the FSC and director (a position I have held on the boards of leading corporates), I believe Compson v FSC & Weal v FSC is an important decision.

Gibraltar's regulatory standards are second to none which, in the fast-paced world of financial services and blockchain technology, ...

Sophisticated families are consolidating fragmented asset holdings into Gibraltar private funds, creating unified governance structures that survive generational transitions. This shift addresses the limitations of patchwork arrangements while maintaining international compliance and providing forward optionality for wealth management.

Fiduciary Compliance Solutions offer cost effective solutions designed to help businesses meet with their regulatory obligations. Our solutions can be tailored to specific client needs.

Corporate governance practices for hedge fund firms are more closely examined today than at any other time in the history of the industry.

The Coronavirus is potentially a life changing event in every sense and many businesses and policy makers will be asking the same question "how do we best manage, if not survive this?".

Gibraltar Alternative Investment Funds ("AIFs") may be structured either as experienced investor funds ("EIFs") or private schemes (also known as "Private Funds").

Gibraltar has become one of the first jurisdictions to establish a standalone regulatory regime for prediction markets, distinct from its traditional gambling licensing framework. The Prediction Market Regulations 2026 (LN.2026/176) came into force on 13 July 2026, made by the Minister with responsibility for gambling under sections 34 and 159 of the Gambling Act 2025.

On 29 April 2015 the Supreme Court of Gibraltar handed down a Judgement which directors/controllers should take serious notice of.

Corporate governance is an important live issue worldwide particularly in the alternative fund management space, fuelled both by scandals (for example Madoff and Weavering) and tightening regulation.

To the uninformed observer the answer would be nothing but an unlikely clue is to be found in a surviving report of fifteenth century litigation from the archives of Bruges. In my book "Protected Cell Companies: a Guide to their Implementation and Use" ...

I have already written extensively about the case of Compson v FSC & Weal V FSC involving an appeal against certain decisions of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission ("FSC") , unreported, 29th April 2015, and therefore for the purposes of this briefing note, I will assume that the background is known to readers.