Feb 2025 Following the success of the 1984 international Business Companies Act, the BVI’s financial services industry continued a trajectory of rapid development. As part and parcel of that development, commercial disputes...more
2/26/2025
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British Virgin Islands ,
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Corporate Governance ,
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Financial Services Industry ,
International Arbitration ,
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In a recent judgment, which was heavily critical of the claimant bank, the BVI Commercial Court has set aside an order obtained ex parte permitting service on non-BVI resident defendants of a fraud claim out of the...more
3/8/2024
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BVI Business Companies ,
Commercial Court ,
Commercial Litigation ,
Court-Appointed Receivers ,
Ex Parte ,
Fraud ,
Insolvency ,
Judicial Proceedings ,
Jurisdiction ,
Receivership
On 23 November 2021, the BVI Commercial Court handed down judgment in Soemarli Lie v (1) Ng Min Hong and (2) Success Overseas Finance Limited (the “Company”) following a four-week trial which took place in October 2020....more
In its judgment dated 28 July 2021, the BVI Commercial Court, determined both that as matter of jurisdiction, and in the exercise of his discretion he should permit creditors who successfully opposed the making of a...more
From time to time the BVI Commercial Court is asked to consider whether or not to permit a director of a BVI company to appear in person on behalf of that company. The general rule as to the ability of directors to appear on...more