Ogier has acted as Cayman counsel on an innovative perpetual securities issue by Lenovo Group, the world's biggest seller of personal computers.

The year 2006 saw a record level of private equity deals in Asia. Up to the end of November 2006, the transaction total in the Asian private equity industry amounted to US $43.7 billion.

Welcome to our first edition of Offshore-i for 2014, where we present our regular quarterly analysis of transactions data for the offshore markets.

Offshore Incorporations Limited Group (OIL) has been conducting the Offshore 2020 annual market research since 2010.

A major legal impediment to Chinese private equity investments appears to have been repealed, although it is not yet clear whether the new regulatory regime will in fact make it easier to actually implement such investments.

On 21 October 2005, SAFE issued a new circular on "Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic Residents' Corporate Financing and Roundtrip Investment Through Offshore Special Purpose Vehicles" ("Circular 75"), effective 1 November 2005.

Tax is, in fact, a very simple subject according to C. Northcote Parkinson, then Raffles Professor of History at the new University of Malaya in Singapore, and a writer for The Economist.

Prior to the global financial crisis, the Islamic banking, finance, insurance (takaful) and investment markets were riding a wave of unprecedented growth.

When a settlor-beneficiary requests the sale of real estate held through a trust-owned company, can the trustee simply inform the directors and step back? This article examines the trustee's active supervision obligations under the Bartlett duty, explores how anti-Bartlett clauses operate in practice, and reveals why professional trustees cannot shelter behind the corporate veil when conflicts of interest arise within the same corporate group.

Asia is a vast and growing market, with the Chinese economy being the biggest.