Welcome to the fourth edition of the quarterly BVI Corporate Review for 2025, covering recent developments in the British Virgin Islands.

The purpose of this article is to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about second lien financings. These financings have become increasingly popular over the last year or so, and we think they offer a financing alternative that will remain on the menu for years to come.

FW discusses M&A in the oil & gas sector with Alicia Quesnel at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP, Norman Wisely at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Justin T. Stolte at Latham & Watkins LLP, and Jim Hansen at Opportune Partners LLC.

This update summarizes the key provisions of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act," "Sarbanes-Oxley," or the "Act"), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the "SEC") rules under the Act relevant to foreign private issuers (a term that covers most non-U.S. issuers, other than foreign governments). It is current through September 1, 2004.

As almost everyone with an e-mail account knows, the volume of unsolicited commercial e-mail ("UCE," more commonly referred to as "junk e-mail" or "spam") transmitted through the Internet has increased dramatically over the last two years. Analysts estimate that more than 261 billion junk e-mail messages were received by Internet users in 2002 - an 86 percent increase over the number of messages received the previous year.

The term, which is widely used as ESG in practice, is the abbreviation of the initials of the English phrase "Environmental, Social and Governance".

This update summarizes the key provisions of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act," "Sarbanes-Oxley," or the "Act"), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the "SEC") rules under the Act relevant to foreign private issuers (a term that covers most non-U.S. issuers, other than foreign governments). It is current through September 1, 2004.

134 law firms participated in this year's Index of Pro Bono. Of these, 127 firms provided data on the levels of pro bono engagement among their lawyers.

After more than a yearlong litigation hiatus, ImberaTek, LLC, an Ideahub, Inc. subsidiary, has sued Apple ( 1:24-cv-00129) in the Western District of Texas over nine patents described by the plaintiff...

Please find below details of some of the notable transactions on which Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm in Hong Kong...

On November 3, 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed a series of new rules that would reform the registration, communication and offering processes under the Securities Act of 1933 ("the Securities Act"). The current proposals are incremental, building on the integrated disclosure system and shelf registration through increased reliance on the periodic and current reports filed by public companies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act".)

The dispute in University of London Press v. University Tutorial Press revolved around the copyright ownership of examination papers set by two examiners for the University of London matriculation examinations.

Please find below details of some of the notable transactions on which Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firms in Asia, have recently advised...