In the last two years we have seen significant growth in the relocation of HNWIs, their families and their businesses to the Cayman Islands, and this trend is likely to continue in 2022.

2021 was a bumper year for public and private M&A activity regionally and we expect that 2022 will follow suit. On the public front, a further increase in private equity-backed privatisation activity...

On 23 April 2020, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal ("CICA") delivered an important decision in the case of Re China CVS (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp., which focussed on the question of arbitrability of shareholder petitions...

With the race for alpha becoming tighter, investors have been drawn to less liquid strategies, better implemented via closed-ended investment fund structures, which include private equity, private credit, venture capital and real estate, among others.

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Nick Harrold and Jonathan Silver discuss limited recourse language - the number one issue for trustees, as well as a critical issue for investment managers...

The Companies Law (2018 Revision) (the "Companies Law") imposes continuing obligations on all exempted companies.

Legislative amendments to the Cayman Islands' Trusts Law which were passed earlier this year have been pronounced to take effect from 14 June 2019.

Partner Morven McMillan continues her discussion on the application of the English Data Protection Act in the context of dispute between trustees and beneficiaries.

What operational steps need to be considered to meet the economic substance test? The regulatory team at Walkers Professional Services have the answer.

Solvent entities reaching the end of their commercial life is a normal and necessary stage in the business cycle.

Walkers Professional Services can provide two solutions to problem assets holding up the orderly wind-down of a fund: illiquidate the trust or a special purpose equity disposal vehicle.

An exempted limited partnership is the most commonly used Cayman Islands partnership for international transactions.

With increased activity in the alternative investment industry and the renowned flexibility of the Cayman Islands corporate framework, the role of the share trustee has re-emerged as a preferred solution...

In the Cayman Islands, it is frequently a feature of investment funds for the voting and participating shareholder rights to be held separately by the manager and the investor(s) respectively.

Update on Cayman Islands Legislative Amendments.

Evolving structures in the European CLO space using The Taxation of Securitisation Companies Regulations 2006 in the UK, allow CLO managers to efficiently establish investment vehicles...

There are other macro-economic issues too: the threat of conflict in Ukraine, elections in Brazil and France, and economic rumblings in China.

2021 was the year of the SPAC, with over 800 SPAC IPO filings globally. Despite regulatory and geopolitical headwinds, we expect this upward trend to continue through 2022...

We have recently seen a renewed focus on issues of corporate governance, which we expect to continue in 2022.