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BVI & Cayman Funds - comparison overview

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands
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  • February 25 2013

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CXS proposes rule changes; upgrades trading platform

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • January 21 2013

The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange consultation period on proposed amendments to its Rules will come to a close on the 25th of January. The Exchange

CIMA commissions corporate governance survey

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • January 21 2013

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) announced on 14 January 2013 that it was undertaking a formal consultation with all Cayman Islands

Master funds and fee increases

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • January 21 2013

Changes to the Mutual Funds Law were introduced in December 2011 requiring certain Cayman Islands master funds within open-ended masterfeeder

Segregated portfolio companies

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • January 13 2013

Any Cayman Islands exempted company (the most common Cayman corporate vehicle limited by shares), including those to be established as funds, may be

Cayman trusts: an overview

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • November 7 2012

A trust is a legal relationship created when a person (the settlor) places assets under the control of another person (the trustee) for the benefit of beneficiaries or a specific purpose

Cayman trusts: STAR Trusts

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • November 2 2012

With the development of legislation in a number of offshore jurisdictions to allow for non-charitable purpose trusts, the Caymans Islands introduced the Special Trusts (Alternative Regime) Law 1997 (the STAR law) now contained in the Trusts Law to allow for the establishment of STAR Trusts

BVI & Cayman funds round-up: from FATCA to fund directors

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands
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  • October 30 2012

In the BVI, the BVI Business Companies Act , 2004 has been amended and the BVI Business Companies Regulations, 2012 have been passed

Enforcing orders made in foreign insolvency proceedings

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, United Kingdom
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  • October 24 2012

This article sets out the potential impact in the BVI and Cayman of the much anticipated Supreme Court decision in Rubin v. Eurofinance SA 2012 UKSC 46, which was handed down on 24 October 2012

Redemptions in kind the end of the road for in specie distributions?

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • August 3 2012

In the recent case of Re FIA Leveraged Fund the Grand Court considered whether an in specie distribution properly discharged the Fund’s liability to redeeming investors