Today's private equity environment is rapidly shifting and increasingly under pressure from society, limited partners (LPs), and employees to manage and address environmental and social issues.

The message from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority that banks must do more to cater to foreign start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses has been welcomed by the head of Ogier's Corporate Practice in Hong Kong.

At the end of 2022, the Central Bank published its macroprudential policy framework for Irish property funds which includes leverage limits and regulatory guidance to avoid liquidity mismatch.

When corporate governance fails, as has been the case recently with companies such as Carillion, Bhs and Patisserie Valerie, what is usually the specific reason?

In the recent decision of the Royal Court in The representation of the Viscount in the matter of SPARC Group Limited [2022] JRC 194, the Court confirmed that the factors considered in the...

Recently published quarterly statistics for the period ending 30 June 2021 show that the value of regulated funds under administration in Jersey grew by 15% to £436.3 billion in the first half of 2021.

The Jersey government has introduced emergency legislation to help people to take steps to put in place Wills and make other estate planning arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An executor (or administrator) is key to the probate process. They are responsible for administering the estate of the deceased and distributing to beneficiaries.

A law has been passed in Jersey to enable people to to validly execute legal documents, such as a Will and a Power of Attorney, when they aren't physically capable of signing their name ...

Ahead of the end of the post-Brexit transitional period the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Authority (the CSSF) has, as of 1 January 2021

It is imperative that your firm put measures in place to defend against money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing if your goals for 2024 include getting...

Being able to comply with the GDPR by May 2018 requires preparation. If you have not yet started preparing, it is imperative that you do so now.

Broad changes to the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012 (the Law) were approved by the States Assembly on 30 March 2022.

This is the latest decision of the Royal Court in relation to an application by a UK creditor (a bank) for a letter of request to be issued to the English High Court requesting that an administration order be made in respect of a Jersey company.

Highly regulated jurisdictions such as Jersey will be the ones that attract family offices as the global landscape continues to shift in favour of transparency

The settlor applied to court to set aside the Lochmore Trust (the "Trust") on the grounds of the settlor’s mistake, and all beneficiaries of the Trust had confirmed their consent to the application.

Jersey trustees are currently having to spend a lot of time complying with international reporting requirements, such as FATCA and CRS.

In order to ensure that investment funds that are currently marketed in the United Kingdom under the European Economic Area (EEA) passporting regime continue to be able to do so in the event

As international clients from common law jurisdictions expand their businesses in a civil law jurisdiction such as Luxembourg, the question of the enforceability of the liquidated damages and penalty clause ...

On 13 February 2019, the United Kingdom's highest court, the Supreme Court, ruled (in a case of Wells v Devani) that a real estate agent was entitled to commission for finding a purchaser of flats