Cayman Islands Law/BVI Law Investment Funds Advice

Our Investment funds group has extensive experience in advising investment managers on the formation, structuring and launch of a broad range of investment funds in the Cayman Islands and in the British Virgin Islands.

Loeb Smith advises on a comprehensive set of investment fund areas including:
- Hedge Funds
- Private Equity Funds
- Venture Capital
- Infrastructure Project Funds
- Cryptocurrency Funds
- Tokenized Funds
- Real Estate Funds
- Distressed Funds
- Other Asset Classes
Loeb Smith attorneys are experts in advising on the formation, structuring, launch, re-organisation and on-going issues relating to Cayman Islands investment funds and BVI domiciled investment funds.

Recent client representations have included:

The structuring, formation and launch of several private equity funds structured as segregated portfolio companies targeting private equity opportunities across several emerging Latin America and Asian markets. The structuring, formation and launch of a private equity fund structured as segregated portfolio company (with two of its segregated portfolios making a Shariah compliant offering) targeting private equity opportunities across the MENA region.

Advising a US institutional investor on the subscription terms, redemption terms, imposition of redemption restrictions, and the enforceability of its side letter with the fund and its manager in connection with its seed capital investment in a large multi-strategy hedge fund. Advising on the soft wind down of a number of Distressed Funds and the sale of a number of their Madoff related claims on the secondary market.

Related Publications

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 Read More

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”). Read More

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”. Read More

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”. Read More

26 Oct 2023 Cayman Islands: Key dates to terminate a Cayman company to avoid unnecessary fees for 2024. If you are considering terminating a Cayman company by way of voluntary liquidation or strike-off, it is crucial to adhere to specific deadlines and procedures to avoid unnecessary fees for the year 2024. Read More

20 Oct 2023 Cayman Islands: Proposed Legislation to expand Cayman Islands’ beneficial ownership framework The Beneficial Ownership Transparency Bill, 2023 (the “Bill”), which aims to streamline the Cayman Islands’ beneficial ownership framework and to enhance transparency. Read More

19 Oct 2023 British Virgin Islands: BVI REMOVED FROM EU LIST OF NON-COOPERATIVE JURISDICTIONS FOR TAX PURPOSES The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been removed from the European Union (EU) list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. Read More

12 Oct 2023 Why and Where Do You Need to Be Offshore? Why and Where Do You Need to Be Offshore? Wendy Au of Loeb Smith Hong Kong office shared her insight with SS&C Intralinks on what makes offshore destinations attractive to Asia-based fund managers with some key.. Read More