Recent changes to Bermuda's Segregated Accounts Companies Act now mean that a product analogous to a Delaware Series LLC can be created in Bermuda.

A noticeable trend has developed whereby creditors, particularly financial institutions, appear to be moving more quickly to formally enforce their rights by way of winding up petitions.

We continue to see real innovation in Bermuda in the key areas of Covid-19 remediation, climate risk finance and insurtech. With the continued growth of the ILS market and ...

We predict that in 2022 BVI will continue to be the go to jurisdiction for clients who want a fast and efficient route to market.

The refinancing activity is particularly significant in the European and Asian markets where BVI companies remain popular holding vehicles and are being deployed as guarantors and security providers.

We have already seen these provisions being used successfully to obtain injunctions and expect this to continue in 2022.

These financings typically feature an SPV borrower structured as ‘bankruptcy remote'.

The Irish Companies Registration Office has confirmed that the launch of a central beneficial ownership register for companies and industrial and provident societies will be delayed to Q4 2017.

We continue to see activity on off-lease registration on 2-Reg, the Guernsey Aircraft registry

We are expecting the next Moneyval assessment in 2023.

When crypto just started getting big and people were doing ICOs, the Jersey regulator produced a guidance note which led to some interesting activity in Jersey.

On the ship financing front we predict the market will remain active, especially as supply chain issues continue.

In terms of key trends for Irish funds in 2022, we expect to see continued interest in the investment limited partnership with a number of managers establishing Irish funds...

Advisors will want to ascertain whether SCARP will offer SMEs a viable, lower cost process to reach consensual restructurings with creditors.

The Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 (the "Act") was signed in to law on 6 August 2020 with most provisions commenced on 21 August 2020.

In 2021 we saw an increasing stream of instructions relating to the establishment of new unit trust structures in the context of real estate transactions.

This could be the year in which Luxembourg's position as a European funds jurisdiction comes under some challenge.

2021 was a bumper year for public and private M&A activity regionally and we expect that 2022 will follow suit. On the public front, a further increase in private equity-backed privatisation activity...

There are other macro-economic issues too: the threat of conflict in Ukraine, elections in Brazil and France, and economic rumblings in China.

In 2022 we expect to see an increase in the use of Master Trust structures in premium insurance financing. The Master Trust structure was historically set up as a quick way for high net worth individuals...