In the recent Bermuda case of Up Energy Development Group Limited, the debtor Company sought to resist a creditor request to appoint Joint Provisional Liquidators...

Effective 1 January 2025, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and General Registry have implemented updated government fees for various services.

On 31 January 2024, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the BVI Financial Investigation Agency (FIA)...

In this episode of Piano Lessons, Partner Philip Graham, Counsel Marc Piano, and Petri Basson, founder and principal of Lemma and Chairman of the Blockchain Association of the Cayman Islands discuss five key topics.

On 7 March 2024, the British Virgin Islands was removed from France's blacklist of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, as announced in an official statement by BVI Premier Dr Natalio D Wheatley.

The Government of the Virgin Islands has signed its twenty-eighth Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the Government of the Isle of Man as the British Virgin Islands reinforces its commitment to comply with the international standards and the fight against tax evasion.

As evidence of its continued commitment to transparency in the financial services industry and its compliance with international standards, the British Virgin Islands executed a much anticipated Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Canada on 21 May 2013.

In April 2015 the BVI, the Cayman Islands and certain other jurisdictions were removed from Italy's blacklist of jurisdictions.

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance confirmed in its recent decision in Wong Ming Bun v Wang Ming Fan.

The Government of the British Virgin Islands has recently published two Bills (the Bills) which were read in the House of Assembly last month.

The long-anticipated BVI International Arbitration Centre opened this month, providing arbitration services in multiple languages from within the British Virgin Islands.

ESMA published its latest advice to the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission on the application of the AIFMD passport regime to asset managers and investment funds domiciled in non-EU countries.

Lenders of BVI contracting parties are most often concerned with whether the Company they are contracting with has the capacity to enter into the transaction

This article reviews the steps licensees must take to avoid risking enforcement action as a breach of the parent legislation under which the licensee's licence is granted.

Cyprus has recently introduced the Provision of Crowdfunding Services for Businesses Law of 2024 (the Crowdfunding Services Law), to align with EU Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 on crowdfunding service providers for business.

On 29 November 2024, the European Commission adopted new regulatory technical standards to supplement the EU Regulation 2023/1114 on markets...

On 13 December 2024, Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) released a new FAQ addressing Anti-Money Laundering and Countering...

Many partner jurisdictions that have signed IGAs or reached an agreement in substance on the text of an IGA continue to work through their internal procedures to bring the IGA into force.

Segregated Portfolio Companies (SPCs) are well recognised and widely used corporate vehicles, and the BVI is seeing increasing demand for them in the funds context.

On Thursday 5 December the ECSC Court of Appeal handed down an order bringing much needed clarity to the Eastern Caribbean Civil Procedure Rules (the CPR) relating to service out of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. The previous restrictive reading of the BVI CPR had led to the situation that foreign judgments obtained in all but a small number of countries could not be enforced in the BVI because there was no "gateway" to provide for service out of the jurisdiction.