Ireland is a leading location for the development, exploitation and management of intellectual property ("IP").

VISTA trusts, as they are commonly known, came into existence in 2004 with the enactment in the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") of the Virgin Islands Special Trusts Act 2003 ("VISTA").

On 11 May 2022, a judgment by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal in JTrust Asia PTE. Ltd. v Mitsuji Konoshita et al and Showa Holdings provided fresh guidance on the circumstances...

In a decision that will reassure investors in Cayman Islands investment funds and other vehicles, the Grand Court has shown its willingness to facilitate the investigation of legitimate concerns raised...

The Irish Government enacted the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013 in the early hours of 7 February 2013

The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal recently handed down its latest decision in the Sergey Taruta v VTB Bank litigation...

The Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") has released an update to its UCITS Notices and certain UCITS Guidance Notes.

Over the last six months we have seen that the BVI Financial Services Commission has become increasingly strict with payment and filing deadline contraventions and we are expecting to see administrative penalties levied.

The Department of Finance has this week issued a consultation paper on proposed legislation which will require the purchaser of certain Irish retail credit loans to become authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland ("CBI"). The key points to note are as follows:

Japan has been the largest and most active private equity ("PE") market in APAC since 2023[2] (Fig 1). PE related dealmaking in Japan jumped last year as ample supply of targets...

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm, advised E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Limited (the "Company") on the restructuring of its New York law-governed notes by way of a Cayman...

The Cayman Islands is one of the most popular and dynamic international financial services centres for hedge funds globally, with over 12,000 mutual funds currently registered ...

Businesses conducting cross-border transactions face the challenge of creating structures to help mitigate the increasingly complicated global framework of tax, regulation and securities law in a...

A "branch" is not defined in legislation and therefore it has been left to be considered on a case by case basis.

Maples and Calder's Dublin office advised on the first Irish authorised UCITS with full access to the Chinese equity market via a RQFI licence.

Over 70% of European CLOs priced in 2014 used Irish-incorporated issuers.

The conversion of European mutual funds into ETFs is gathering pace. Deirdre McIlvenna, Funds & Investment Management partner and BBH's Antonette Kleiser discuss the drivers of this trend...

Further to our update on 3 May 2017, the revised Shareholders' Rights Directive EU/2017/828 entered into force on 9 June 2017. EU Member States have until 10 June 2019 to transpose it into domestic law.

In other words, the employer is not required to strip away the essential tasks of the disabled employee's role.