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In our advisory Summary of Key Changes issued in September 2022, we discussed some of the key changes to the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (the "BCA")...

Rights issues are utilised by many companies as a means of raising finance and capital either to boost an ailing balance sheet or to fund an acquisition and promote growth without having to take on any further debt commitments with third party lenders.

The British Virgin Islands (the BVI), along with most other major offshore jurisdictions, introduced "economic substance" requirements for entities carrying on certain specified activities.

On 2 January 2025, amendments to the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Business Companies Act (As Revised) (the "BC Act") and the BVI Business Companies Regulations...

Funds of an open-ended nature carrying on business in or from within the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") have long been regulated...

The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") is a long-standing jurisdiction of choice for incorporating joint venture and private equity vehicles. In more recent years it has also become an established option...

The need to take care when schedules are included in trust instruments...

On 24 December 2024 several legislative updates dropped down the chimney in the BVI. These include significant changes to BVI company law and regulatory practice taking effect from 2nd January 2025...

英属处女群岛("BVI")法院在有关一家中国大型制药公司股份所有权的长期争议的一项判决中，显示BVI法院对于涉及中国资产和涉及广泛性的 BVI及中国Ė

Only rarely would it be advisable to include a reference to the settlor's letter or memorandum of wishes in a trust instrument.

The BVI Commercial Court has followed the English Court of Appeal decision in Servis-Terminal LLC v Drelle [2025] EWCA Civ 62, holding that an unrecognised foreign court judgment cannot found insolvency proceedings.

In a recent case, Nokian Shina LLC v Andrei Valerevich Smyshliaev & Ors, the BVI Commercial Court (the 'Court') considered whether public policy in the Virgin Islands (the 'BVI')...

The British Virgin Islands has emerged as a premier offshore jurisdiction for Latin American high-net-worth families seeking sophisticated wealth preservation and succession planning solutions.

Trust practitioners will be all too familiar with the fact that, in recent years, there has been a significant increase in judgments issued from onshore jurisdictions that creditors seek to enforce...

A BVI Business Company (BC) has a separate legal personality from its members.

Robert Briant at Conyers Dill & Pearman looks at British Virgin Islands law governing the takeover (or privatisation) of public companies.