06/29/2020
Walkers Advises Affinity Private Wealth Limited on Pinnacle Trustees Limited Acquisition
Walkers was lead adviser to Affinity on all Jersey law aspects of corporate, banking, regulatory and employment matters.
06/29/2020
Walkers was lead adviser to Affinity on all Jersey law aspects of corporate, banking, regulatory and employment matters.
06/29/2020
Government’s recent decision to allow savers the early withdrawal of a portion of their pension funds has also increased public awareness of pensions.
06/28/2020
BVI-based Managing Associate Jenelle Archer (property and business), assisted in the property aspects of the deal.
06/28/2020
Bermuda has begun to gradually re-open the Island.
06/26/2020
The new rules qualify children aged 16 to 30, parents and grandparents of the main applicant or their spouse for citizenship
06/26/2020
The answer to that is to use electronic platforms, but people are reluctant to be the first mover, they are waiting for others to move first.”
06/25/2020
The business has total funds under management of £1.0 billion (as of 31 May 2020). T
06/25/2020
The transaction, effected through the acquisition of a Jersey property unit trust, involved a number of law firms across Jersey, England and Scotland, with Ogier working closely with Urban Logistics' onshore counsel, Wedlake Bell.
06/25/2020
Offshore holding companies forming part of a private wealth structure have typically been unregulated.
06/25/2020
The rules recognise that certain private funds do not prepare marketing materials, and do not require them to do so.
06/25/2020
With the current state of COVID-19, many employees are in the midst of now returning to work and others who have been working at home are returning to the workplace
06/25/2020
A number of bank issuers have already started to make the proactive step to transferring their older legacy deals that will cross over into 2021 to alternative rates.
06/25/2020
Ogier's banking and finance team in Guernsey, with onshore Counsel Clifford Chance, advised HSBC as the lead agent for the syndicate of banks.
06/24/2020
Episode six - Demystifying the continuation or re-domiciliation of companies into or out of the BVI
06/24/2020
The Walkers team was led by Hong Kong partner Nicholas Davies and assisted by associates Sonya Saxena and Anni Dai.
06/23/2020
The Limited Partnership Agreement provided that the term of the Fund expired in March 2012, or no later than March 2014.
06/23/2020
This decision is significant as for the past 10 years the courts of the British Virgin Islands have regularly granted freezing orders under the so-called Black Swan jurisdiction
06/23/2020
That explains the due diligence that is usually conducted by buyers, where the buyer and its advisors scrutinise the target company and its assets and liabilities in rigorous detail.
06/23/2020
Update prepared by Felicia de Laat (LP Partner, Jersey), Tim Morgan (Partner, Jersey) and Ben Robins (Partner, Jersey).
06/23/2020
Being “fit and proper” means an applicant and/or licensee is, on the balance of probabilities, competent and capable of carrying out business in a manner that is both honest and correct.