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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ("Privy Council") in London, which is the highest appeal court for many Caribbean jurisdictions

A supervision order involves the appointment by the Court of one or more qualified insolvency practitioners as official liquidators over a company in voluntary liquidation...

Cayman Islands liquidators regularly seek recognition of their appointment in Hong Kong, and rely on letters of request from the Grand Court in support of such recognition applications.

The Cayman Islands has developed a framework for the enforcement of foreign judgments, including arbitral awards, which has long been recognised as friendly to those wishing to enforce judgments or awards...

Successful litigants in foreign proceedings will often be required to take steps to enforce any judgment or order obtained outside of the jurisdiction in which it was made.

The DPL came into effect as of 30 September 2019.

The Cayman Islands Government has confirmed that the long awaited reforms to Cayman Islands restructuring laws will now come into effect on 31 August 2022.

In 2019, a total of six restructuring petitions were filed in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. Of these, three related to share capital reductions and two related to schemes of arrangement.

This decision brings clarity to some longstanding uncertainties about how the above provisions of the Law should be interpreted and applied in practice.

This article considers the approach taken by the Cayman Court when faced with an application by a company to appoint 'soft touch' provisional liquidators and obtain the...

The Cayman Islands is a leading offshore jurisdiction for commercial aircraft financing and leasing transactions. Tax neutrality, combined with a commercially...

Winston Churchill once said, "to improve is to change so to be perfect is to change often". With that in mind and with many high profile cross-border restructurings ...

In 2017, a total of 17 restructuring petitions were filed in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Ireland is a sovereign state in Europe and a member of the European Union since 1973.

In a judgment delivered on 6 October 2023,[1] the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Parker J) dismissed an application by the joint voluntary liquidators ("JVLs") of Port Link GP Ltd ("Port Link")...

Primeo was one of several investors which had submitted redemption requests to Herald for a redemption date of 1 December 2008 (the "December Redeemers").

Nothing in this briefing note is intended to provide, or should be construed as giving, Singapore legal advice.

May 2014 marks the sixteenth anniversary of the Cayman Islands segregated portfolio company ('SPC').