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Two significant recent judgments delivered by the BVI court, Abdul Kadir Al Muhaidib & Sons Company v Dr Moamena Kamel & Others BVIHC(COM)2024/0213 (29 January 2026)...

On 1 January 2023, the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 was amended by the: (1) BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2022; and (2) the BVI Business Companies...

On 2 January 2025, the BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2024 and the BVI Business Companies and Limited Partnership (Beneficial Ownership) Regulations, 2024 (the "Amendments")...

The global financial crisis has sharpened the international focus on systems of corporate governance, not least in an effort to mitigate some of the systemic factors which may have contributed to the onset of the financial crisis.

The Government of the Virgin Islands has amended the Commercial Recreational Vessels Licensing Act, 1992 (the CRVL), the Cruise and Home Port Permit Act, 2001...

Many prospective settlors, especially those from jurisdictions or family backgrounds in which trusts do not feature, the establishment of a lifetime trust can involve a rather significant leap in the dark.

Companies registered in the BVI that have been dissolved will need to be restored before various steps can be taken concerning the company or assets...

Over the last five years, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has introduced new provisions that will be of particular interest to corporate groups worldwide that contain one or more of the hundreds of thousands of BVI companies in existence.

Section 2 of the BVI Business Companies Act ("the BCA") defines a "director" to include a person occupying or acting in the position of director by whatever name called.

In a recent decision in the case of TIPP Investments PCC v. Chagala Group Ltd. et al (BVIHCM 102/2016), Mr Justice Davis-White clarified the issue of the standing of beneficial shareholders that we highlighted in our previous article. As we had said was the likely outcome of any reconsideration of the case of Headstart Class F Holdings Ltd and another v Y2K Finance Inc (BVIHCV 278/2007

There are several circumstances in which a beneficial owner of shares may wish to bring an action for unfair prejudice without the participation of the legal owner of his shares.

The Securities and Investment Business (Amendment) Act, 2019, which came into effect on 31 December 2019...

At its heart the case concerned payments (totalling c.HK$150 million) that had been made by a BVI company – Green Elite – to three of its directors, who were also employees of the company.

Since its enactment in 2003, the Insolvency Act ("the Act") has made significant and positive changes to insolvency law in the BVI. Phillip Kite gives an update on the way some of the more important changes have been interpreted to date. For UK practitioners, there are also some thoughts on how the Act might enable a BVI company, with a BVI governed floating charge, to circumvent some of the provisions of the UK Enterprise Act.

Cypriot companies are frequently used in cross-border structures, whereby securities of a Cypriot company are listed on a regulated market of another Member State.

Following recent revisions of the British Virgin Islands' (BVI) companies and investment funds laws, the BVI has now turned its attention to its trust regime.

The applicants, Happy Lion Ventures Limited and Chinex Limited, issued an application to appoint Joint Liquidators over RZ3262019 Limited (the "Company") on the grounds that it was unable...