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Jersey imposed travel restrictions in response to the Coronavirus crisis in March 2020 and has been operating a full lockdown for all residents, apart from essential workers, since 30 March.

Ogier serves a diverse clientele across the financial spectrum, providing directors to client companies' boards. This unique role offers our team a broad...

The Taxation (Partnerships - Economic Substance) (Jersey) Law 202- was lodged with the States Assembly on 18 May 2021 and, if passed, is expected to come into effect from 1 July 2021 ...

So it’s here! After all the controversy, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) was implemented on 22 July 2013.

On 25 April 2008, the Jersey Royal Court handed down an important judgment (“Re: Representation Gichuru”) detailing the options for the customer of a financial institution whose funds have been subject to an informal freeze following the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report, and where the police have refused to consent to payments on the account being made.

With the Increased interest in UK property, these has to be an upsurge of enquiries relating to the establishment of JPUTs!

The Banking Business (Jersey) Law 1991 (Banking Law) allows Jersey banking business (technically deposit-taking business) to be transferred from one licensed bank to another by means of a court-sanctioned scheme.

Standard Chartered consolidated its two Jersey banking entities into a single operating platform for its Jersey business in September 2013.

On 26 January 2012, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) introduced the Jersey Private Placement Fund Guide.

Recent activity in St Helier points to an appetite for high quality, large scale investment properties backed by solid covenants.

There is always a temptation to read too much into statistics, to extrapolate from them conclusions which, on closer inspection, aren't true.

Just as the summer's heat is giving way to autumn, so the issues which enflamed the atmosphere in which the finance industry operated at the start of this year are cooling.

Takeovers and mergers in Jersey have, for some time, been regulated by the Panel for Takeovers and Mergers (the "Panel"), an independent body based in the UK.

The bare statistics would tell you that Luxembourg is the epicentre of the European investment funds industry, with assets valued at an estimated 5.3 trillion euros held in fund vehicles (as at April 2021).

Fund managers are increasingly outsourcing administrative operations in order to focus on adding value to assets and investor relations

In this update from the Sustainable Investment (SI) Consulting team, our experts explore some of the key challenges and questions facing clients as they look to comply with and navigate the growing swell of ESG regulations across the EU, UK and US.

Over the course of the last few years, Ocorian's award-wining Family Office team has seen the demand from family offices for fund solutions grow significantly.