Fresh figures that show the volume of property transactions at a ten-year high and rising prices demonstrate confidence in the Island's economy, says Ogier property partner Julie Melia.

The fact that 100 Jersey Private Funds (JPFs) have been established in just 12 months since the structure came to market demonstrates that its regulatory focus on promoters ...

The implementation of Jersey's new Capacity and Self Determination Law 2016, which was originally slated to come into effect in April 2018, has been delayed and is now anticipated to come into effect in October 2018.

Existing National Private Placement Regimes to allow funds to be marketed into the EU by investment managers continue to work well in the run-up to the implementation of the ESMA passport regime...

The anticipated rise in UK and European corporate insolvencies over the next two years should be prompting both borrowers and lenders to take early advice where they have concerns ...

An experienced lawyer who applied for a trainee position at an insurance firm purely to make an age discrimination claim has had his claim thrown out as an abuse of process.

From the perspective of The International Stock Exchange, there have been three significant developments over the last 12 months:

As you may be aware, 15 September 2022 is the deadline for filing the CRS Compliance Form with the Cayman Department for International Tax Cooperation (DITC).

Two measures in particular have been retained, while other measures have been scrapped.

On 12 October 2022, the Minister for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien English TD introduced the Employment Permits Bill 2022 (the "Bill")

If a person holds assets in Jersey they may wish to ensure that they have made adequate provision to appoint someone who can manage those assets in the event that they should lose capacity to such an extent that they can no longer do this themselves.

At present, the purchase of a property through the acquisition of the share capital of a property owning company is exempt from stamp duty.

On 17 March 2020, the Luxembourg tax administration issued an official newsletter on their website (impotsdirects.public.lu).

When Katrina Edge began her career with Ogier in 2002, the legal profession was very different. Suits were a requirement, lawyers worked from their offices, and women ...

With a sharp global increase in energy costs, localised inflation at record highs and interest rates trying to offer some counterbalance to the soaring costs of living driven by the...

Such is the level of interest that earlier this year, Killourhy (pictured) noted in a briefing that the BVI was keen to investigate a role in this new capital raising phenomena.

In the current economic environment, there are a number of entities that are being restructured.

Ogier, one of the leading offshore legal and fiduciary firms, has announced ground-breaking plans to offer their Guernsey services in Asia.

In light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, many of us are having to implement measures that see all or a majority of our workforces transition to working remotely.

You can read the infographic version of our guide here. Ogier's top-tier Investment Funds team has specific expertise in institutional and professional investor funds.