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The Privy Council’s decision in FamilyMart China Holding Co Ltd v Ting Chuan (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp [2023] UKPC 33 is a landmark ruling that distinguishes the arbitrability of underlying...

Part VII of the Cayman Islands Trusts Act (2021 Revision) (Trusts Act) permits the creation of a special type of trust, commonly known as a 'STAR trust', which is unique to the Cayman Islands.

In this guide, Scott Macdonald, James Reeve and Noman Ali provide an overview of Cayman Islands securitisation law, including receivables contracts, receivables purchase agreement...

Artificial Intelligence ("AI") has taken the world by storm, pervading the collective consciousness with a plethora of open-sourced generative AI tools.

This article will look at the recent decision of David Doyle J in In the Matter of HQP Corporation Limited (in Official Liquidation) (7 July 2023) and its effect...

Walkers represented the joint official liquidators of HQP Corporation Limited (in Official Liquidation) in a landmark decision in which the Court of Appeal...

This guide outlines the statutory procedure whereby an exempted company incorporated and registered under the Companies Act (2021 Revision) (Companies Act) which proposes to be registered...

The Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands has recently passed the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Law, 2014, expected to come into force shortly.

Formalities. In order to create an enforceable debt obligation of the obligor to the seller: (a) is it necessary that the sales of goods or services are evidenced by a formal receivables contract;

In 2016, the EU capital markets seemed to consolidate the reinstatement of the marketplace from the post-Lehman international crisis.

Cayman foundations have become a preferred legal structure for token issuance, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), and Web 3 projects.

The Cayman Islands Shipping Registry has introduced updated guidance on the Yacht Engaged in Trade (YET) regime, a framework that allows privately registered yachts to engage in limited commercial charter activity while maintaining their pleasure yacht status.

The Cayman Islands Exempted Limited Partnership Law has allowed the Cayman Islands to attract high quality business.

In the Matter of Gulf Investment Corporation et al v The Port Fund LP et al and the earlier judgment of Dorsey Ventures Limited v XIO GP Limited, the Cayman Islands Grand Court provided some welcome clarification regarding ...

Are you or your client considering writing third party (re)insurance business within a Cayman Segregated Portfolio Company insurer (SPC) and currently debating whether a segregated portfolio ("Cell")...

The executor's year in Cayman Islands succession law represents a critical juncture where beneficiary expectations meet administrative realities. Does this twelve-month period impose an absolute deadline for estate completion, or does it function as a flexible measure of reasonable diligence? This analysis examines the statutory provisions, common law foundations, and practical implications of sections 5 and 7 of the Succession Act to resolve fundamental questions about representative obligations and benefi

In a further installment in one of the "world's greatest financial scandal[s]" – the 1MDB fraud, the Cayman Court dismissed two summonses to set aside the winding-up of PetroSaudi International Limited (PSI)...