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This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in the British Virgin Islands and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics including the local legal framework, the main stages of a...more
On 27 March 2025, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, sitting in the Territory of the Virgin Islands, handed down its decision in BVIHCMAP2024/0002 Amstel Investment Holdings Limited and others v AMS Holdings Limited and...more
The new guides provide the latest legal information on litigation funding, initiating a lawsuit, pre-trial proceedings, discovery, injunctive relief, trials and hearings, settlement, damages and judgment, appeals, costs,...more
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
In Bermuda, our most popular posts and publications provided updates from our Corporate practice, particularly regulatory changes and insurance insights, along with reflections on private client matters and litigation....more
A successful party to a buy-out order made in the course of unfair prejudice proceedings can find themselves in a difficult position, at the hands of an uncooperative respondent. Commonly, the Court will try liability and...more
Is it possible for a debtor company to issue debt (such as bonds) and contractually agree for that debt to rank lower in priority than debts owed by a company to other unsecured creditors? This article examines the commercial...more
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
As the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands reopens for 2024, we reflect on 2023 and some of the large-scale cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings, and complex commercial disputes dealt with in the jurisdiction...more
In its seminal decision in Broad Idea International v Convoy Collateral [2021] UKPC 24 (“Convoy”), a case which had its genesis in the BVI Commercial Court, the Privy Council delivered a ground-breaking exposition of the law...more
The UK Supreme Court in a recent decision has clarified the approach to be taken in determining when a matter ought to be referred to arbitration under an arbitration clause, and when such a matter falls outside of an...more
The Court of Appeal has given valuable and clear guidance on the circumstances in which applications during an ongoing liquidation may constitute ‘final decisions’ for the purpose of bringing appeals to His Majesty in Council...more
The Cayman Islands Grand Court recently delivered its judgment in Re Shinsun Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd. FSD 192 of 2022 (DDJ) (21 April 2023) (unreported) (the “Shinsun Judgment”) in which the court determined the ultimate...more
The general doctrine of ‘illegality’, in commercial litigation, is based on two related principles: • Firstly, that no person should benefit from his or her own illegal act or wrong; and • Secondly, that the law (and the...more