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Juliette Schembri
Senior Associate
- Cayman Islands
Overview
Juliette was admitted as a solicitor in 2016 to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia and has since gained experience as an in-house and private practice financial services lawyer. She joined Loeb Smith’s Grand Cayman office in 2025 as a Senior Associate Corporate and Investment Funds team. Juliette’s practice areas include corporate and commercial, investment funds, financial services regulation with a particular focus on alternative investments (e.g. hedge funds, private equity and digital assets). Juliette regularly advises clients throughout fund lifecycle including formation and launch of both Cayman funds and Australian funds of all asset types and regulatory compliance matters.
Latest Updates and News
INSIGHTS | 28 July 2025
STAR Trusts and Foundation Companies – Developing uses in the Digital Asset space
By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…
INSIGHTS | 24 July 2025
The Cayman Islands Clarifies Tokenised Funds Rules
The Cayman Islands has taken a material step forward in balancing responsible digital asset innovation with the introduction of the Virtual Asset (Service Providers) (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (the “Amendment Bill”) which, if passed into law, will make key amendments to the Virtual Asset (Service Providers) Act (2024 Revision)…
INSIGHTS | 04 June 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property in the Cayman Islands and the BVI
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to raise complex questions about the applicability of intellectual property (IP) laws to AI and AI-generated works.
INSIGHTS | 02 June 2025
Fiduciary Duties of a General Partner of a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership
The Cayman Islands (Cayman) continues to be the leading offshore jurisdiction for the establishment of hedge funds, private equity funds, and investment funds focused on other asset classes. A large number of Cayman funds (typically private equity, venture capital or real estate focused funds) are structured as exempted…
INSIGHTS | 30 May 2025
Cryptoasset trading in Cayman Islands
What rules and restrictions govern the exchange of fiat currency and cryptoassets? Assuming the subject cryptoassets fall within the definition of virtual assets under the Virtual Asset (Service Providers) Act (As Revised) (VASP Act), the exchange of fiat currency and cryptoassets will likely constitute a virtual asset service…
