The deadline for the first filing of annual returns by companies incorporated or registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is this Monday 30 September 2024.

In this first in a series of monthly webinars, Partners Robert Briant, Anton Goldstein and Counsel Rachael Pape provide a practical overview of recent changes to company law in the British Virgin Islands

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – The BVI Registrar of Corporate Affairs has announced a six-month extension of the period for the statutory non-public filing of (i) the register of members...

Effective 1 January 2025, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and General Registry have implemented updated government fees for various services.

Harneys is advising clients that there are new regulations governing the use of restricted company names in the British Virgin Islands.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has enacted useful enhancements to its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime to enable the reliance on electronic innovations to expedite the verification of customers' identity.

In a judgment handed down by the British Virgin Islands High Court on 25 July 2019, Renaissance Ventures Ltd and another were awarded rectification of the share register of a billion dollar corporate group, Comodo Holdings Ltd.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has handed down judgment in the case of Chu v Lau [2020] UKPC 24 (on appeal from the British Virgin Islands) on 12 October 2020.

Effective December 1, 2015, the British Virgin Islands Registry of Corporate Affairs will be offering premium services.

The BVI Financial Services Commission has as of December 24, 2025 approved an extension of the period during which existing entities formed prior to January 2, 2025...

In the recent case of FHL v LTC & 5 others BVI HC (COM) 2020/0048 the BVI Commercial Court granted a wider Norwich Pharmacal relief, requiring disclosure not only from several Registered Agents...

When section 83 A of the British Virgin Islands' Trustee Act came into effect in 2004 the jurisdiction was regarded as having the most sophisticated and well thought-out ‘firewall' offering available, but, since then,...

O'Neal Webster advised Fredonia Management Limited on the listing of its gold and silver exploration business on the Toronto Venture Exchange by way of a three-cornered BVI statutory merger.

Walkers' BVI chapter from David Pytches and Lucy Diggle covers common issues in private client laws – including pre-entry tax planning, connection factors, taxation issues on inward investment, succession planning, ...

The Bank of Asia has been established in the BVI to address the growing needs of offshore companies and their owners.

BVI companies are regularly struck off the Register of Company and subsequently dissolved. BVI companies are also dissolved following the completion of a liquidation process.

An electronic signature will generally be legally effective to conclude a simple contract from a BVI law perspective, so long as:...

If your British Virgin Islands ("BVI") company was incorporated in the second half of any given year, then the 2022 annual BVI Registry fees will be payable by 29 November 2021.

As annual British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Registry fees are now payable for those BVI companies that were incorporated or registered in the first half of the year, it is time to start planning...

As annual British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Registry fees are now payable for those BVI companies that were incorporated or registered in the second half of the year...