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With over 450,000 active companies, the British Virgin Islands is the world’s most popular offshore corporate domicile.

This guide outlines the procedure for a voluntary liquidation of a solvent Cayman Islands exempted company and the duties of its liquidator.

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.

Since Cyprus’s accession to the EU, the legislation regulating M&A activity in Cyprus has been closely aligned with Europe-wide practices.

Despite the popular myth of the secrecy of BVI companies, the reality on the ground paints a different picture.

As the largest law firm in the BVI, Harneys has consistently worked on the biggest and most complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving BVI companies.

In the British Virgin Islands arbitration is principally regulated by the Arbitration Act 2013 (the Act) which came into force in 2014. The Act is modelled upon the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial.

An injunction is a court order prohibiting a person from doing something (a prohibitory Injunction) or requiring a person to do something (a mandatory Injunction).

In two recent cases, the British Virgin Islands Commercial Court had the opportunity to clarify the effect of section 125 of the Evidence Act 2006.

The Cayman Islands is the world’s leading offshore domicile for investment funds and the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) has developed a streamlined, flexible and progressive regime for the listing of a wide variety of investment funds.

Cyprus has been in the spotlight recently due to the negotiations with what has become known as the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission) regarding terms of financial aid.

The Cayman Islands' statutory merger regime is set out in the Companies Act (the Companies Act) and the Limited Liability Companies Act (the LLC Act)...

Once a fairly niche investment strategy of concern to US-listed businesses, shareholder activism is an increasingly global phenomenon.

A trust is a legal relationship created when a person places assets under the control of another person for the benefit of beneficiaries or a specific purpose.

Any Cayman Islands exempted company, including those to be established as funds, may be registered as a segregated portfolio company.

The phrase "Mergers and Acquisitions" is used as a shorthand for the sale and purchase of businesses around the world. In the US, and some other legal systems, such transactions are typically effected...

On 16 November 2007 the British Virgin Islands court handed down its much anticipated judgment in Alfa Telecom Turkey Limited v Cukurova Finance International Limited on the English remedy of & appropriation & under the Financial Collateral Arrangements (No 2) Regulations 2003 (the & Regulations&) as applied to shares in British Virgin Islands companies which are subject to an English law share mortgage.

This concise guide discusses the BVI Business Companies Act as it relates to the registration of security interests granted by a BVI Business Company. Where a Company creates a security interest over its own assets.