Banking and Finance Legal Advice
As an offshore corporate law firm, we provide legal advice to banks and other financial institutions. Our banking & finance team provides advice and is highly experienced in:
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- The creation, protection and priority of security interests;
- The creation of guarentees and indemnities;
- Contractual and structural subordination, including with respect to subordination and intercreditor arrangements;
- Corprate benefit concerns arising out of the creation of third party collateral support; and
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Registration of Security and the enforceability of security interests, guarentees and indemnities, including the rights and remedies available to lenders and borrowers;
Asset-backed and receivable financing; - Complex group financings and corporate debt refinancing, including syndication loan agreement, private placements and inter-creditor agreements and debt subordination issues.
Related Publications
22 Feb 2024
Legal Insight: Avoiding BVI law and Cayman Islands law pitfalls in banking & finance and corporate transactions
There are certain notorious pitfalls to avoid in the context of British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) and Cayman Islands banking & finance and corporate transactions. In this article, we examine five such pitfalls.
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19 Feb 2024
Legal Briefing: Creation of a security interest by a Cayman Islands exempted company and registering it in the Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands exempted companies are widely utilized in structuring cross-border finance transactions.
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14 Feb 2024
Legal Briefing: Creation of a security interest by a BVI business company and registering it in the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands business companies are widely utilized in structuring cross-border finance transactions. One of the key reasons for this is that the BVI provides a flexible, well-tested and attractive regime for borrowers and lenders.
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13 Feb 2024
Side-letter perspectives in Cayman subscription financing
The subscription finance market has grown substantially in recent years, driven by growth of private capital funds (including private equity, credit and real estate) and the funds’ wider adoption of subscription facilities
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13 Dec 2023
Shareholder Disputes: A comparison between the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands
In the prevailing economic conditions shareholders in offshore companies, including companies which carry on business as investment funds, need to consider their rights against directors who mismanage the company's affairs
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10 Nov 2023
Aubit International: Guidance on the Appointment of Restructuring Officers in the Cayman Islands
In August 2022, the Cayman Islands introduced the restructuring officer regime (the “Regime”) by amending the Cayman Islands Companies Act (the “Act”).
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3 Nov 2023
Cayman Islands: an overview of Foundation Companies
The Foundation Companies Act 2017 (the “Act”) introduced a novel corporate vehicle to the Cayman Islands – the “Foundation Company”.
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30 Oct 2023
Cayman Islands removed from FATF Grey list
By way of an update on our recent publication the Financial Action Task Force had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and the Cayman Islands has now been de-listed from the so-called “Grey list”.
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Legal Expertise
Read more about how our team of attorneys provides legal advice on Cayman Islands law and British Virgin Islands law in the following practice areas: