The Companies Act 2014 came into effect on 1 June 2015. The Act consolidates the existing 17 Companies Acts, which date from 1963 to 2013, into one Act.

Following the announcement of the Irish Budget 2018 this week, the Maples and Calder Tax Group has prepared a commentary on Ireland's International Tax Strategy and Budget 2018.

The Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseas Regulators Act 20121 (the "Act") was enacted in December 2012.

Significant changes to the taxation of Irish investment funds came into effect on 1 January 2017.

Tim Frawley and Julian Ashworth provide an overview of the law as it relates to FATCA in the Cayman Islands and the taxing issues for self-administered funds.

Irish regulated investment funds ("Investment Undertakings") benefit from Ireland’s very favourable funds tax regime.

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm, has witnessed a general shift in the international project finance market from financing via standalone bank loans to financing through a combination...

Welcome to Maples and Calder's quarterly newsletter on financial services regulatory enforcement.

In November 2013 the governments of the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") entered into intergovernmental agreements with the United Kingdom ("UK IGAs")...

In the latest episode of Billions to air on Netflix, Axe Capital's CIO Taylor Mason proposes launching an entirely new strategy emblazoned with ‘ESG' on the cover of the slide deck.

Maples and Calder's Islamic finance team has been involved in many of the most innovative Islamic finance transactions, including the largest Sukuk issuance to date ...

Owners of British Virgin Islands ("BVI") companies that hold UK residential property (together with other interested parties such as settlors of trusts) will have been following closely the changes made over the last three years to the taxation of UK residential property held by companies.

This update summarises recent developments regarding the legal and regulatory rules which impact on Irish public company equity securities issuers, their investors and professional advisers and service providers.

In a recent judgment concerning an investigation by the UK Serious Fraud Office into alleged corruption in mining companies in Kazakhstan and Africa owned by the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd, ...

During the past year we have seen that the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") has become increasingly strict with payment and filing deadline contraventions...

It has been almost a year since the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive was due to be implemented by the member states of the European Union.

This update considers specifically how this may impact sponsors and distributors of UCITS. For these purposes, the focus is on UCITS other than structured UCITS (i.e. "Non-Complex UCITS").

On 28 March 2018, the Irish Court of Appeal gave judgment on an appeal against the High Court's refusal to order discovery of parts of a successful tender in a public procurement process ...