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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 August 2025
What are the key laws and rules that govern Cayman Islands’ investment funds?
The Mutual Funds Act (for open-ended funds) and the Private Funds Act (for closed-ended funds) are the two main statutes relevant to the regulation of investment funds in the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (“CIMA”) is the regulatory body responsible for compliance with these laws and…
INSIGHTS | 27 August 2025
Beneficial Ownership requirements in the British Virgin Islands: Registration and “legitimate interest” access
The registration of beneficial ownership information in respect of British Virgin Islands (the “BVI”) companies and the potential for that information to be disclosed subsequently has long been the subject of speculation and understandable concern by owners of companies and other relevant entities in the BVI.
INSIGHTS | 20 August 2025
An overview of remedies in British Virgin Islands crypto asset disputes
The rapid development of the digital assets space and Web 3.0 ecosystem over the last 10 years has meant that courts around the world have been faced with an ever-increasing number of disputes in this space. This includes the courts in the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”). The cases…
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)…
