ArticleTaxation In The Cayman IslandsThere are several reasons why the Cayman Islands remain the leading offshore international financial centre. Taxation is one of them.Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticlePanama Leaks: Through The Offshore Looking GlassSo excited are the left-wing media at the apparent ease with which the legitimate right to privacy can now be breached, that absent from the extensive coverage of the Panama Papers leak...PanamaWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleWinding Up Of Segregated Portfolio CompaniesCayman Islands Court of Appeal strikes out investor petition to wind up segregated portfolio companyCayman IslandsFinance and BankingTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing (Significant) – ESMA And The Cayman Islands AIFMD PassportRecent commentaries by various offshore law firms on the delay by ESMA in extending the pan European passport for marketing the securities of Cayman Islands domiciled funds throughout...Cayman IslandsImmigrationTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleExpanded Master Fund Registration RegimeThe Cayman Islands has recently introduced amendments to the Mutual Funds Law which require the registration of certain trading subsidiaries of registered funds as "master funds".Cayman IslandsFinance and BankingTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleHands OffEven the casual observer will note the troubling convergence between the billion-dollar claim for damages by the liquidators of two Bear Stearns Cayman Islands-based investment funds.Cayman IslandsFinance and BankingTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticlePanama Papers: Some Perspective From The Cayman Islands"Cayman retains many secrecy features—not least a law that can put people in jail not just for revealing confidential information, but merely for asking for it."Cayman IslandsTaxTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleThe Cayman IslandsGeneral information on the Cayman Islands.Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleThe Stock ExchangeOn January 2, 1997 The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) became part of the vast network of financial services offered by the Cayman Islands.Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleCayman Islands Master Funds - New Registration RequirementsOn 22 December 2011, the Cayman Islands introduced legislation to widen the range of master funds that are required to register with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority ("CIMA"). Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleCayman Islands Implements New Restructuring RegimeThe Companies (Amendment) Act 2021 (the "Amendment") introduces, with effect from 31 August 2022, a welcome update to the Cayman Islands restructuring regime as is contained in Part V...Cayman IslandsInsolvency/Bankruptcy/Re-StructuringTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticlePatents And TrademarksBy virtue of the Patents and Trade Marks Law (1995 Revision) as amended, together with the Patents and Trade Marks Regulations, any patent registered in the United Kingdom may be registered in the Cayman Islands. Cayman IslandsIntellectual PropertyTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleCayman Reacts To Inclusion On Tax GraylistThe EU has not blacklisted the Cayman Islands as uncooperative in tax matters. But Cayman's inclusion on a graylist of countries that have promised to address certain deficiencies by the end of 2018...Cayman IslandsTaxTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleMr. Moscovici And His EU Lists Of Many ColoursFor those with better things to do than follow the machinations of EU tax policy, we should state that Mr. Moscovici is French. Cayman IslandsTaxTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleThe New G7 Minimum Tax Initiative And The Cayman IslandsSo exclaimed Mark Twain on reading his evidently premature obituary. And we can similarly characterise the hopelessly inept Economist article of 1st June 2021 "Twilight of the Tax Haven", in similarly suggesting that the effect ...Cayman IslandsTaxTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleAn Era Of Mixed Messages - Lower Taxation And Over Burdening RegulationsThe "harmful tax competition" campaign of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is stalled. Many low-tax jurisdictions did send so-called commitment letters to the Paris-based bureaucracy earlier this decade after being threatened with financial protectionism, but almost all the persecuted financial centres insisted that the letters would be binding only if the "onshore" nations also agreed to abide by the same misguided rules – the "level playing field" requirement.Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleLitigationAs a British dependent territory the legal system in the Cayman Islands is based upon that of the United Kingdom and the common law of the United Kingdom has general application unless there are specific statutory provisions which provide otherwise. Cayman IslandsLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleCayman Court Overrules Valuation Placed Upon Redemption Paid In KindThe Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has set out the principles to be applied to the valuation of redemptions in kind and to the interpretation of discretions bestowed upon directors in constitutional documentsCayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleThe Challenges Of A CEO In A Free Market Globalised WorldHeading a successful organisation in today’s globalised world presents challenges which are significantly different to those which existed in the not to distant past. Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga
ArticleNew Flexible Offshore Vehicle: The Cayman Islands Limited Liability CompanyThe Cayman Islands has taken steps to introduce a new vehicle in 2016. The Limited Liability Companies Bill, 2015 (the "Law") was published in December 2015, and is expected to become law in the first half of 2016.Cayman IslandsWealth ManagementTravers Thorp Alberga