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"Landmark decision" is perhaps becoming an overused phrase. You may have heard about the recent Privy Council ruling in DD Growth v RMF Market Neutral Strategies [2017] UKPC 36...

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has confirmed that limited partnership agreements preventing partners seeking to wind-up the partnership (non-petition clauses) are effective.

Former Premier McKeeva Bush was unanimously acquitted on Thursday 9th October 2014 of six counts of misconduct and five counts of breach of trust.

In the recent decision of Taiping Trustees Limited v Valley Stone Industry Fund Ltd, the Cayman Islands Grand Court provided a timely reminder that public policy factors should not be taken into account.

Kenneth Krys and Charlotte Caulfield secured a further victory in their long-running litigation with US hedge-fund Farnum Place LLC before the US Second Circuit of Appeals.

In a judgment handed down on 22 November 2022, the European Court, sitting as the Grand Chamber, held an anti-money-laundering directive to be invalid which required Member States...

The English Court of Appeal, in an important decision in Goknur Gida Maddeleri Enerji Imalet Ithalat Ithracat ve Sanayi AS v Aytacli (2021) ...

The most significant fraud trial ever to be heard in the Cayman Islands.

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 or entities located within the jurisdiction.

It should be stressed that new companies are largely unaffected by the decision, since they are expressly permitted by the Law to deal with the issue in the drafting of their articles.

Eurofenix spoke with Caroline Moran of Maples and Calder to discuss the recent cross-border insolvency proceedings between the US and the Cayman Islands.

In the case of Canterbury Securities Ltd (In Official Liquidation) v Wincura, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands addressed the issue of granting...

Sir Anthony Smellie KCMG KC, former Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, has received the prestigious honour of being appointed a Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and a member of the Judicial.

The Privy Council upheld an anti-suit injunction restraining the Appellants from continuing proceedings in Pakistan.

In a judgment published on 23 June 2025 ([2025] UKPC 27), the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has overturned the decision of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal...

A recently released decision of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands clarifies the circumstances in which receivers appointed by foreign courts or by foreign governmental bodies may seek the recognition in the Cayman Islands.

Judgment has today been handed down by the Honourable Chief Justice of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands in the matter of Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi Brothers Company v. Saad Investments Company Limited...

How to enforce over a fraudster's assets has been the subject of a number of recent cases; which have looked in particular at how the appointment of an equitable receiver may be an effective option to secure recovery.