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The Grand Court granted an ex parte injunction restraining Blue Gold Limited from proceeding with an EGM intended to cause the passing of a resolution...

No explanation was provided, and the dissenters made demand for payment after the date for payment had passed.

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has recently released for publication a decision in Dorsey Ventures Limited (Plaintiff) and XIO GP Limited (Defendant)

Justice Parker's decision of in North Sound Pharmaceuticals Inc concerns an appeal against the rejection of a proof of debt in a liquidation.

Cayman Islands incorporated entities are commonly used as the debtor entity in Asian corporate and financing structures, issuing notes to investors for the purpose of raising capital for the underlying group.

The Cayman Islands Grand Court (the Court) has introduced a significant enhancement to its discovery framework through the addition of Rule 7A to Order 24 of the Grand Court Rules, which came into force on 30 March 2026

The Private Funding of Legal Services Act, 2020 (the "Act"), which was gazetted on 7 January 2021 but is not yet in force, seeks to bring the Cayman Islands position on litigation funding in line

This decision concerns the purpose of a worldwide freezing order (WFO) and the relevance of asset disclosure to the policing of a WFO.

In the matter of Pacific Harbor Asia Fund I, Ltd (In Official Liquidation) the Grand Court appointed joint official liquidators from different firms due to the differing opinions of various stakeholders...

The Department of International Tax Cooperation ("DITC") has issued an industry advisory confirming that the Automatic Exchange of Information Portal ("AEOI Portal") has reopened with revised documentation.

In an action brought in Florida in January 2017, Eike Batista, once the seventh richest man in the world...

Welcome to the fourth annual issue of Appleby's round-up of significant decisions of the courts over the course of the preceding calendar year.

Over the past two or three years, we have seen an increasing number of cases where a client holds and wishes to sell or transfer shares in a Cayman Islands company which is in official liquidation...

The second Plenary of the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF") under the German Presidency took place on 22, 24 and 25 February 2021.

As is common in the Cayman Islands, the shares in question were held by a custodian.

The Cayman Islands Grand Court (‘Grand Court') has made an Order recognising the Joint Receivers (‘Receivers') of an individual segregated account of a Bermudan segregated accounts company ...

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales ("EWCA") recently ruled in the case of Philip Barton v Timothy Gwyn-Jones and others.

The Cayman Islands and the UK have signed a framework agreement on the sharing of beneficial ownership information, which does not involve the use of a central register and will not provide public access to this information.