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Discover how appointing a BVI resident director can help your entity meet economic substance requirements, avoid penalties and maintain compliance under BVI regulations.

Arbitrability is a question of considerable importance – it is the question of whether a particular issue in dispute is capable of being resolved by arbitration as opposed to litigation...

Currently, the British Virgin Islands has no legislative framework for regulating third party litigation funding.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has enacted the eagerly awaited Limited Partnership Act (the Limited Partnership Act or the Act).

Hong Kong's status as an open jurisdiction offers hedge fund managers unparalleled flexibility to choose the domicile of their fund structure, free from restrictive local mandates.

When the Legal Practitioners Act, 2015 (the "LPA") came into force in the British Virgin Islands (the "BVI"), it rewrote the rules governing the legal costs that parties to BVI court proceedings can recover...

Company redomiciliation is the process by which a company moves its domicile from one jurisdiction to another by changing the country under whose laws it is registered or incorporated...

The BVI has introduced data protection legislation, the Data Protection Act, 2021 (the DPA), which came into force on 9 July 2021.

Appleby lawyers, Andrew Willins and Olwyn Barry have authored a broad overview of the legal and court systems in the British Virgin Islands which has been updated to reflect the extensive amendments...

This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in the British Virgin Islands, and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics.

The British Virgin Islands is an asset holding jurisdiction for many international businesses. Companies incorporated in the BVI are often involved in international arbitrations administered by leading arbitral institutions.

The BVI courts have tackled a number of trust disputes over the last couple of years, addressing a number of important issues, some of which have not been the subject of previous decisions.

This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in the British Virgin Islands and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics including the local legal framework, the main stages of a fraud case, parallel proceedings, cross-jurisdictional mechanisms, recent developments, technology and other impacting factors.

This Q&A guide to restructuring and insolvency law in the British Virgin Islands gives a high level overview of the most common forms of security granted over immovable and movable property; creditors' and shareholders...

The new guides provide the latest legal information on litigation funding, initiating a lawsuit, pre-trial proceedings, discovery, injunctive relief, trials and hearings...