Legal Insights

Explore the advantages of the Cayman Islands for FinTech IP Companies. With robust legal protections and a favourable regulatory environment, it’s an ideal hub for financial technology innovations.

The Cayman Islands have taken significant steps in recent years to update and modernize the legal framework with respect to protection of intellectual property (IP). Traditionally, the Cayman Islands patents and trademarks registry only served to extend rights which had previously been registered in the U.K. or the…

Cayman Islands holding companies, operating companies, and investment funds structured as companies pay dividends and make other distributions to shareholders and investors all the time, but what are the Cayman Islands’ rules governing the payment of dividends and making of distributions? In the first of our series of…

Question: What are the key features of a Cayman LLC?

Directors who are registered with CIMA in accordance with The Directors Registration and Licensing Law, 2014 (“DRLL”) in connection with being a Director of an entity that is registered with CIMA (e.g. registered Mutual Fund or an investment management or investment advisory entity that has “Excluded Person” status…

Question: What are the key features of a Cayman LLC?

In our previous publication Interim Payment Relief: New Developments Regarding Dissenters’ Rights under Cayman Merger Law, we discussed a new and significant development for minority shareholders in their quest to obtain the “fair value” for their shares in the context of a merger take-private carried out under the…

Question: What are the key features of a Cayman LLC?