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:

 

  • Tall office building
    • 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
    • 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

Legal Insight: Avoiding BVI law and Cayman Islands law pitfalls in banking & finance and corporate transactions 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. Read More
Legal Briefing: Creation of a security interest by a Cayman Islands exempted company and registering it in the Cayman Islands 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. Read More
 Legal Briefing: Creation of a security interest by a BVI business company and registering it in the British Virgin Islands 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. Read More
Side-letter perspectives in Cayman subscription financing 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 Read More
Shareholder Disputes: A comparison between the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands 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
Aubit International: Guidance on the Appointment of Restructuring Officers in the Cayman Islands 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
Cayman Islands: an overview of Foundation Companies 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
Cayman Islands removed from FATF Grey list 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

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: