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The treatment of trusts in divorce proceedings has become increasingly important since the landmark decision of the House of Lords in White v White.

In a recent decision of the English Commercial Court, in Alafco Irish Aircraft Leasing Sixteen Ltd v. Hong Kong Airlines Ltd [2019] EWHC 3668 (Comm), it was ordered that costs of proceedings are to be assessed ...

This is now the leading case on the availability of just and equitable winding up relief in relation to Cayman ELPs.

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Court) has confirmed that the Court has the jurisdiction to grant declaratory relief within winding-up proceedings (In the Matter of Polarcus Limited (In Official Liquidation)...

The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal recently held, on appeal from the BVI, that a party to proceedings is entitled to share documents received in the proceedings with its litigation funder.

In the recent decision of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands In the matter of Global-IP Cayman (unreported, 21 July 2020)

The United Kingdom Court of Appeal (‘UKCA') has found that once a company has gone into administration (a form of insolvency/restructuring process not available in the Cayman Islands ...

The formulation of "an arguable point of law of general public importance which ought to be considered by the Supreme Court at that time" is the same as that applied under the relevant procedural rules to an application for permission to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from the Court of Appeal of Jersey.

In TB Mgmt LLC & Ors v Taibang Biological Ltd [2026] CIGC (FSD) 83, the Cayman Islands Grand Court (the “Court”) stayed a Cayman Islands proceeding in favour of a Hong Kong arbitration on the basis that the arbitration concerned the same ‘core substantial dispute’.

When plaintiffs sue for substantial damages they need to be confident that the defendant has assets to meet a judgment.

In an unanticipated development, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal handed down judgment on 12 February 2015 and has reversed the decision of Jones J...

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 against assets...

A recent judgment of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands1 (Grand Court) has raised a number of important issues for the processing of redemptions in master-feeder structures.

As the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands is set to close for 2024, we reflect on some of the large-scale cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings and complex commercial disputes dealt with in the jurisdiction during 2024.

On 9 June 2021, the Grand Court handed down its judgment in Cayman Shores Development Ltd and Palm Sunshine Ltd v Registrar of Lands and others (FSD Cause No. 143 of 2019)...

There has been an increase in claims relating to misappropriated cryptoassets in offshore jurisdictions. The Courts of the Cayman Islands, BVI and Bermuda are guided by the decisions...

On 9 March 2015, the Grand Court handed down a decision in the Schroder case concerning an application made by a Cayman Islands trustee to set aside a transfer of assets from a Cayman Islands Employee Benefit Trust (the "Cayman EBT") to three Employee Retirement Benefit Fund Schemes ("EFRBS") governed by Jersey law.

In a judgment delivered on 25 May 2023, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands ordered the joinder of two plaintiff limited partners of The Port Fund L.P. (the "Fund") as defendants to a crossclaim...