On 23 May 2024, The Honourable Justice Parker, in Ascentra Holdings, Inc. (in Official Liquidation) v Ryunosuke Yoshida & Ors) (FSD 300 of 2023), granted an on-notice interim proprietary injunction...

In a judgment delivered on 8 October 2018, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal ("CICA") allowed a partial appeal by the joint official liquidators of Argyle Funds SPC Inc. (in Official Liquidation)...

In a groundbreaking decision, the Grand Court has confirmed in Unicorn Biotech Ventures One Ltd (in its capacity as general partner of Rigmora Biotech Investor One LP) & Anor. V ATP III GP, Ltd [2026] CIGC (FSD) 1...

On 4 October 2022 the Governor of the Cayman Islands issued General Licence GL/2022/0001 for the Cayman Islands Funds Industry (the "General Licence") which provides relief from aspects...

In response to the OECD's global Base Erosion and Profit Shifting ("BEPS") initiative and EU Code of Conduct Group substance requirements modelled on BEPS Action 5 ...

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands recently delivered an important judgment on the principles governing judicial recusal, granting an application...

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the "Court") has sanctioned a proposal enabling the Joint Official Liquidators ("JOLs") of Saad Investments Company Limited ("SICL") ...

In a judgment likely to prove significant for litigants and third parties seeking access to Court documents, the CICA has clarified what documents third parties to litigation may obtain from the Court file and the...

The Q3 Regulatory Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 July to 30 September 2022.

A significant number of crypto-focused private investment funds have launched during the first half of 2018, with investment managers continuing to structure many of these through the Cayman Islands.

The Privy Council has upheld changes to a BVI company's Articles of Association, despite these changes being motivated by a desire to exclude a minority shareholder.

In doing so, the Court of Appeal clarified two important points of BVI law and practice which will be of widespread application...

On 30 August 2023 the Beneficial Ownership Transparency Bill, 2023 was gazetted (the "Bill"). The Bill has been the subject of extensive consultation with industry stakeholders, members of the public...

The BVI Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") recently published new virtual asset guidance (the "Guidance").

The August 2019 judgment of Kawaley J, sitting in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the "Grand Court"), in Riad Tawfiq Al Sadik v Investcorp Bank B.S.C & Ors (FSD 47 of 2009) has provided litigants with judicial guidance.

(Livingston Properties Equities Inc. and others (Respondents) v JSC MCC Eurochem and another (Appellants) [2020] UKPC 31 – 30 November 2020)...

With the quote set out above, Mr Justice Harris, the Companies Court judge of the Hong Kong High Court, Court of First Instance, shone a spotlight yet again on a vexing issue that has persisted...

As lockdown restrictions begin to be relaxed there seems to be little sign of frustration easing.

The Securities Investment Business (Amendment) Law, 2019 (SIB Amendment) was published on 18 June 2019.

How to strike the balance between open justice and confidentiality? In reasons delivered on 25 July 2018 in respect of an Ex Parte Originating Summons ("Confidentiality Summons")...