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HedgeNews Africa sits down with Patrick Colegrave of interna¬tional offshore law firm Harney Westwood & Riegels to discuss the offshore landscape for South African hedge fund managers.

On 24 December 2024 several legislative updates dropped down the chimney in the BVI. These include significant changes to BVI company law and regulatory practice taking effect from 2nd January 2025...

The British Virgin Islands operates one of the most robust and accountable regulatory systems in the world.

The EU is implementing a number of new restrictive measures on Russia in response to its perceived on-going actions in destabilising eastern Ukraine.

FinTech lending is a decentralised form of lending which relies on technology and digital solutions to facilitate the process of soliciting applicants...

The CIT will be determined based on a tax rate of 15% and is expected to apply to tax years starting on or after 1 January 2025.

The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission ("FSC") announced on 9 September 2008 the creation of a new Annual Return regime for BVI investment funds.

The cost-benefit analysis of AEOI initiatives will no doubt be debated for many years to come. When considering the impact on the Caribbean region, however, two issues stand out.

The attractions for international managers, sponsors and investors of the Cayman Islands as the jurisdiction in which to domicile such funds include the stable political environment.

One of my favourite aspects of working in the offshore environment is that we get to speak to fund managers based all over the world about the latest hot and trendy investment opportunities.

In late 2011, Noble Energy International Ltd announced the discovery of an average of 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Block 12 of the Republic of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone, which opened the way to a second hydrocarbons licencing round with the involvement of some major international companies and consortia enthusiastic about exploring and exploiting in the future these potentially vast reserves.

On January 17 2014 the Ministry of Finance published the 25th Decree, as required by Articles 4 and 5 of the Enforcement of Restrictive Measures on Transactions in Case of Emergency Law 2013.

The main problem that the Cypriot economy faced in recent years was the disproportionately big size of the banking sector in relation to the country's GDP.

Last month I was booked in as the âmystery readerâ at my daughterâs school. I turned out to be the most mysterious of all parent readers: I forgot to turn up.

Offshore companies, particularly those incorporated in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) or the Cayman Islands, are commonly used as vehicles to purchase and hold UK real estate.

Insolvency law in the Cayman Islands is principally regulated by the Companies Act and the Companies Winding Up Rules, and they are supplemented by a wide body of case law.

In Dos Santos v Unitel SA, the English Court of Appeal clarified the threshold test of a "good arguable case" for granting worldwide freezing injunctions should be equivalent...

This is the second in a series of articles on the implementation of Directive 2014/65/EU, (MiFID II), in Cyprus. Below we explore changes to the local industry that mandates greater investor protection.