10/11/2019
Ogier "head and shoulders above the competition" in Chambers UK 2020
Ogier has the highest number of ranked individuals in Employment in Jersey
Legal
10/10/2019
Collas Collas Explainsnon Non Court Approved Reductions Of Capital
The Law has a simple procedure for a company to reduce its capital accounts without the need to get court approval.
10/10/2019
Carey Olsen Bermuda crowned Bermuda's Best Employer for 2019
Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, the RG Business Top Ten Employers programme is the island's most prominent awards event recognising organisations for their excellence as employers.
10/10/2019
Ireland - Update – CBI Issues Prohibition Notice for Breach of the Fitness & Probity Regime
The Fitness and Probity regime requires individuals performing control functions in RFSPs to meet the CBI’s Fitness and Probity Standards.
10/10/2019
Top Takeaways from our Zurich and Geneva Trust and Private Client Seminars
Foundations emerged as a new type of incorporated entity in Jersey and Guernsey
10/10/2019
Recognition For Appleby Lawyers In The Latest Chambers And Partners Guide
The directory recognises 23 Appleby lawyers from their Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey offices.
10/09/2019
Mourant advises The Rank Group plc on £115 million acquisition of Stride Gaming plc
Corporate partner James Hill, litigation partner Stephen Alexander and Counsel Andrew Salisbury provided Jersey legal advice on all aspects of the acquisition, working alongside English counsel CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang.
10/09/2019
Cayman commits to public beneficial ownership register
The government had previously said it would only make this type of information public if it became an international standard.
10/08/2019
Carey Olsen's Guernsey trusts conference urges caution over reliance on 'Anti-Bartlett' clauses
The nature of the high level supervisory role will always be fact-specific and dependent.
10/08/2019
Collas Crill Advises £20M Finance Facility For Raw Mortgage Fund
The transaction was led by Group Partner Paul Wilkes and Senior Associate Gareth Morgan.
10/08/2019
OFAC's Case Against British Arab Commercial Bank and Offshore Use of the US Dollar
This is a complex and novel case, but one worthy of careful analysis by non-US banks engaged in potentially higher risk transactions in USD that rely on a determination that the arrangements are outside of OFAC’s jurisdiction.
10/08/2019
Don't Turn a Tax Debt Into a Prison Sentence
In addition to evading the payment of these taxes, Dr. Russell failed to timely pay the taxes due for the years 2013 through 2015."
10/07/2019
Judicial pen pals? Not this time
The case raises the issue as to what extent subpoenas may be issued locally against Cayman Islands affiliates of foreign companies, in order to avoid having to act against the foreign company directly in a foreign court.
10/07/2019
Carey Olsen acts for Stride Gaming plc in £115 million takeover by scheme of arrangement
Carey Olsen worked alongside Pinsent Masons LLP, who acted as onshore counsel for Stride.
10/07/2019
Appleby Mauritius Advises Azure Power Solar Energy
The USD Notes qualify as green bonds and were certified by Climate Bonds Initiative, a non-profit organisation working solely to mobilise debt capital markets for climate change solutions.
10/07/2019
Appleby Bermuda Advised on Southern Cross
The Bermuda aspects of both the equity and network investments were led by partner Steven Rees Davies and assisted by Andrew Kuzma and Sarita Ebbin.
10/06/2019
Family partnership ends in tears
The judge adopted the approach that it is important to avoid the fallacy of supposing that, because a witness is confident in his or her recollection and is honest, that their evidence is any reliable guide to the truth.
10/06/2019
Mourant Funds Update - Summary
Consultant Geoff Cook gave his assessment of asset management prospects in a period of heightened global geopolitical and economic uncertainty
10/04/2019
Acquisition of Guernsey Press
The deal which completed on 30 September, includes both the production and distribution of the local paper, as well as its digital platforms and GY4 You app.
10/04/2019
Panama Papers: The Malta Independent article ‘not libellous’, Court of Appeal rules
In the impugned decision, Magistrate Francesco Depasquale had ruled that the paper’s reproduction “almost in toto” of a blog post by Daphne Caruana Galizia meant that it had made her allegations its own and that the article was intended