Legal Insights

Explore the benefits and considerations of using a Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) for private equity funds. Learn how SPCs provide flexibility for deal-by-deal investments, asset segregation, and structure advantages in the Cayman Islands.

In our guidance note Top Ten Best Practices for an ICO Founders’ Team: A View from the Cayman Islands, ICO founder teams and promoters looking at the Cayman Islands for incorporation of their company or companies were warned that, while the Cayman Islands had flexible pragmatic rules encouraging…

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

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (“CIMA”) published a new Rule – Corporate Governance for Regulated Entities (“Rule”) and a new Statement of Guidance relating to Corporate Governance – Mutual Funds and Private Funds (“Statement of Guidance”) on 14 April 2023. In essence, both the Rule and the Statement…

The Cayman Islands has been the leading offshore jurisdiction for M&A activity over the last few years, with a steady flow of over US $77 billion in combined value of target companies for 2016 and 2017, and a peak of over US $115 billion in 2015. By way…

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…