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Company restorations in the BVI and the Business Companies (Amendment) Act 2022's transitional provisions – FAQs
The rules surrounding BVI company restorations were changed significantly by the introduction of the BVI Business Compan...
Insight 30/05/2023- BVI
An offshore perspective: reservation of powers in BVI trusts
What is a 'trust', how are they established and, more importantly, how are they controlled? This article explores how th...
Insight 25/05/2023- BVI
Names of BVI Directors
From 1 January 2023, the Registrar shall make available, upon request, the names of incumbent directors of any BVI compa...
Guides 27/03/2023- BVI
The Privy Council clarifies the law on default judgments in the Eastern Caribbean
In the recent Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the Privy Council or the Board) decision in Lux Locations Ltd. v ...
Insight 02/03/2023- BVI
The Court's discretion to restore voluntary/involuntary liquidated and dissolved companies
At the start of 2023, as we welcomed changes into our lives, the BVI also welcomed changes to the BVI Business Companies...
Insight 20/02/2023- BVI
With all due authority... Part two of our series on the impact of Fang Ankong and HWH Holdings Limited v Green Elite Limited
The recent Court of Appeal judgment of the BVI case of Fang Ankong and HWH Holdings Limited v Green Elite Limited (in Li...
Insight 06/02/2023- BVI
Opinion: Private lives, public registers and the ECJ
Partners Wayne Atkinson and Ellie Crespi share their views on the Court of Justice of the European Union's (ECJ) judgmen...
Insight 29/11/2022- Guernsey
- Jersey
- Cayman
- BVI
- London
Is leave required to appeal a refusal to set aside a statutory demand?
In the recent Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (CoA) decision in BEC Limited v A2 and A1[1] the CoA clarified the posit...
Insight 25/10/2022- BVI
Shareholder B, exit left: Exit options for BVI company investors
There are a number of reasons why investors opt to use British Virgin Islands (BVI) companies to conduct business: the "...
Insight 21/10/2022- BVI
Family wealth management is evolving: Are you keeping up?
In this piece, originally published in ThoughtLeaders4 Private Client magazine, Angela Calnan, Kellyann Ozouf and Sophia...
Insight 06/09/2022- Guernsey
- Jersey
- Cayman
- BVI
- London
New year, new BVI Business Companies Act: What changes from 1 January 2023?
Further to our update earlier this year we are now able to advise how the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (the Act) wil...
Insight 01/09/2022- BVI
BVI Court confirms it has power to order block transfer of an insolvency practitioner's appointments
Collas Crill was successful in obtaining what is believed to be the first published judgment permitting the block transf...
Insight 21/07/2022- BVI
