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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 ...

After several years of lacklustre returns, nearly all strategies covered by Preqin have shown positive results in 2017, with event-driven and equity funds performing particularly well. According to Preqin's survey of investment managers in June 2017, the leading drivers are largely political. Benign stock markets since late 2016

Although the AIFM Directive is uniform EU-wide regulation each member state is likely to adjust its national private placement regime rules idiosyncratically.

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority has published rules regarding the contents of marketing materials, segregation of assets and the calculation of net asset values of Cayman Islands...

The Department of Commerce and Investment (DCI) advises that effective immediately, all commercial garage licensees are required to operate under the new conditions implemented by the Trade and Business Licensing Board on 13 November.

On 17 January 2018 the new Securitisation Regulation (Regulation EU 2017/2402) (the "Securitisation Regulation") came into force and will apply from 1 January 2019.

Whilst the growth of India as an emerging market for foreign investment is nothing new, we are seeing some new trends in the way in which offshore Cayman vehicles are being used as an avenue for investing in that market – ..

Premier and Minister for Financial Services and Commerce, the Hon. André Ebanks MP will travel to Washington, DC and Chicago this week to support continued Cayman Islands engagement with key government, policy and financial services stakeholders in the United States.

Changes to private funds legislation in the Cayman Islands and a growing investor demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing are throwing up new issues for limited partners...

The pressure for investment managers to get things right from day one is immense. According to Julian Stockley-Smith, a Director of JP Fund Foundations, investors are now much more inclined to seek professional and independent oversight when assessing prospective funds

The Cayman Islands is one of 61 countries that have agreed to implement CRS with more than 30 countries expecting to follow shortly.

The Cayman Islands Government is aware that the EU's blacklist is based upon the individual, national blacklists of EU countries.

Cayman legislators take a proactive approach to facilitate structured- finance transactions and encourage the use of a Cayman SPV.

Early action to reduce costs and minimise 2017 fees

In this episode, we discuss the latest on CIMA AML surveys, amendment laws and fines regime, DITC FI registration audit, AEOI reminders, SIBA RP inspections and the upcoming FAR deadline.

Following industry consultation in early 2016, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has published an updated policy on exemptions from the annual audit requirement for regulated Cayman Islands investment funds (the Policy).

Under the Cayman Islands Directors Registration and Licensing Act (the "Act"), a person appointed as a director of certain entities (referred to in the Act as "covered entities")...