The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal ("CICA")[1] has allowed an appeal against the February 2019 Grand Court judgment of Mangatal J...

On 22 January 2020, the Court handed down judgment in the matter of Pacific Fertility Institutes Holding Company Limited v Pacific Fertility Institutes (HK) Holding Company Limited.

In a recent judgment, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal (the "Court") has upheld the decision of the Grand Court which found that investors who have redeemed their shares but remain unpaid at the commencement of a company's liquidation are entitled to prove in the liquidation for their redemption proceeds as a creditor.

In a welcome development, the Courts of the Cayman Islands have introduced new measures concerning the judicial mediation of disputes. By Practice Direction No. 3 of 2022...

The registered office service provider for each Cayman Islands company should contact the company with regard to the requirements of the Regime.

When settling a list of shareholders in a solvent liquidation of a Cayman Islands company that has issued redeemable shares tied to a NAV, what is the scope of an official liquidator's power to rectify...

The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has clarified the purpose and effect of section 99 of the Companies Law and the principles to be applied in granting validation orders in an important decision handed down earlier this year:

Following years of discussion, the bill for the long awaited proposed amendments to the Cayman Islands Companies Act (the "Act"), providing for a standalone restructuring regime for companies, was gazetted last week.

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands clarified two matters concerning petitions to wind up a company on the just and equitable ground on the basis it has lost its substratum.

Since the landmark decision in Lamtex early last year in Hong Kong, there has been a flurry of Hong Kong cases in which the Hong Kong Court has wound up a debtor company (incorporated offshore)...

In the recent judgment of In The Matter of the Kuwait Ports Authority (FSD 118 of 2021, unreported, 8 March 2022, Parker J), the Cayman Grand Court considered the scope of its jurisdiction...

recent judgment of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the "Court") in China Shanshui[1] has considered validation orders to allow for the trading of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ...

Following our September 2022 client advisory, the BVI Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, 2022 was enacted on 29 December 2022.

A recent decision of Mr Justice Doyle has provided welcome guidance in relation to the scope and extent of sanction applications brought by official liquidators. In a judgment handed down on 3 November 2022...

In a significant judgment delivered on 9 August 2021, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council granted the preliminary limb of a bifurcated appeal by Primeo Fund (in Official Liquidation), a Madoff feeder fund, ...

On 19 March 2019, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force ("CFATF") issued its latest assessment of the Cayman Islands' AML/CTF/CFP regime (the "March Report").

The first part of this chapter looks at the key aspects of the successful Cayman Islands restructuring regime.

In a judgment delivered on 19 May 2022,[1] the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council upheld the 2020 decision of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal ("CICA") to allow an appeal against...

The Cayman Court recently recognised joint provisional liquidators appointed by the Hong Kong court over a Cayman company for the purposes of the company presenting parallel schemes of arrangement...

The Cayman Court recently recognised joint provisional liquidators appointed by the Hong Kong court over a Cayman company for the purposes of the company presenting parallel schemes of arrangement...