Our Appleby Corporate team has been involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions involving buying, selling and/or restructuring businesses that have premises and/or people in Jersey.

An increasing number of hedge fund managers are establishing a physical presence in Jersey. In fact, a number of globally recognised fund managers in the hedge...

The guidance note follows in the wake of several high profile crypto ventures launching from Jersey, including several ICOs, and formalises the road map for approval previously developed by the JFSC...

Following recent growth in initial coin offerings (ICOs), the Jersey Financial Services Commission (the Commission) has issued a guidance note setting out certain minimum standards...

Jersey’s financial services industry is ideally placed to support the needs of corporate and institutional business and private clients in Greater China.

On 26 January 2012, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) introduced the Jersey Private Placement Fund Guide.

With less than one month to go until the transitional phase of the AIFMD comes to an end, Jersey is seeing a strong take-up in its private placement route into Europe.

The enactment of the Security Interests (Jersey) Law 2012 (the 'SIJL') marked a watershed moment for secured finance in Jersey.

Currently, the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the “Code”), which is issued by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers of the UK (the “Panel”), applies to offers made for public companies incorporated in Jersey if either their shares are listed on a regulated market in the UK or on any stock exchange in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man or if they are considered by the Panel to have their place of central management and control in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man (and applicati

Andrew Deighton explains what Jersey has to offer to a specialist insurance and reinsurance lawyer and to the international insurance and reinsurance industry.

Since Jersey introduced the Expert Fund Guide in February 2004 its status as a jurisdiction for alternative investment funds has grown, to the point where it now comes second only to the industry leader the Cayman Islands.

The draft regulations on QROPS (The Overseas Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2015)) published by HMRC on 19 December 2014 will have an impact on all Jersey pension schemes.

There was many a wry smile in Jersey when Alistair Darling announced yet another independent review of regulatory arrangements which he says allow offshore centres to "attract banking customers with lower taxes – without contributing to the UK exchequer".

Like trusts, foundations have been with us since mediaeval times. The concept of a trust probably developed when crusaders handed over their estates to friends to administer until they returned from their travels and the practice evolved into a structure recognised by common law jurisdictions.

Jersey is one of the premier offshore jurisdictions for the establishment of investment funds and other investment structures.

The number of alternative fund managers choosing to future-proof their EU-focussed funds through Jersey has continued to grow in the first six months of 2018, according to the latest figures...

Our investment funds team outline the latest developments within the investment funds market in Jersey, looking at the publication of the Jersey Financial Services Commission's MONEYVAL Action Plan...

This briefing sets out Jersey's adoption of rigorous international tax and regulatory standards, which, in conjunction with local tax laws, make the jurisdiction an ideal location for investment funds...

Since 2003, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") has been integrating existing regulatory laws into the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 as amended (the "Financial Services Law") in order to provide a "one-stop shop" that will be easier to understand and simplify compliance.