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...

The British Virgin Islands is by far the leading offshore incorporation jurisdiction with over 450,000 active business companies.

The Company had attempted to continue out of the BVI as a company incorporated under the laws of Cyprus. However, the procedures required by the laws of Cyprus to secure its incorporation

The court has now reaffirmed its earlier decision by ordering the final winding up of the company.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) will shortly implement some important changes to the rules governing segregated portfolio companies (SPCs) incorporated or registered under the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (BCA).

BVI Partner Robert J.D. Briant and Counsel Nicholas Kuria were pleased to contribute the BVI jurisdictional overview to the Chambers Global 2023 Introduction to Corporate & Finance including...

Greg is a transactional lawyer with more than 15 years' experience in BVI law and 20-plus years of cross-border corporate finance law experience, including a six-year tenure...

Walkers Partners Rosalind Nicholson and John O'Driscoll and associate Cate Barbour acted for the successful defendants in an important case.

Green Elite's predominant purpose, was to compensate key employees of the business.

New response deadlines have been imposed for Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) information requests.

On 18 January, His Excellency the Governor, Mr. John Rankin, delivered his first Speech from the Throne and the ears of the financial services industry pricked as we heard that:

A security document does not need to be filed or recorded with any governmental or regulatory authority, agency or court in the BVI in order to ensure the legality

Maples and Calder represented both parties to a successful application brought by a retiring security agent and trustee, under an English law governed facility agreement, for an order under section 52 (1) (a) of the BVI Trustee Act vesting in the incoming security agent and trustee, ..

Conyers acted for the successful claimant, Mr Lie, whose unfair prejudice allegations against his fellow shareholder Mr Ng were confirmed by the Court in full.

On 30 March 2015, the Trustee (Amendment) Act, 2015 (the "Amendment") came into force in the British Virgin Islands ("BVI"). This follows similar amendments in respect of partnerships and companies.