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Collas Crill
Once upon a time, half way across the world and well over a decade ago, I gave my first client presentation on the merits of the BVI for cross border structuring to a roomful...
Martin Kenney & Co (MKS)
Asset Recovery Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of British Virgin Islands, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries
Harneys
On 31 January 2024, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the BVI Financial Investigation Agency (FIA)...
Harneys
On 18 January 2024, the BVI Financial Services Commission, in accordance with regulatory requirements, published Circular 2 of 2024 to remind all regulated persons under various...
Harneys
For many investment managers, triggering a suspension clause can be considered an extreme and unwelcome step. Investor opinion and market sentiment can be negatively impacted should a fund trigger a right to suspend.
Harneys
An industry to which most have been largely oblivious for decades, now sits perched in prime position to rival and potentially poised to overtake mainstream lending.
Ogier
These are the key regulatory filing dates for BVI funds, including incubator funds, approved funds, private funds, professional funds, public funds and private investment funds.
Ogier
Approved investment managers (Approved Managers) are approved by the BVI Financial Services Commission under the Investment Business (Approved Manager) Regulations 2012 (as amended) (the Regulations).
Appleby
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) fund finance market has seen continued growth during 2023, with increasing numbers of fund formations and general transactional activity.
Spencer West
2023 was certainly a tumultuous and difficult year by any standard. Leaving aside geopolitical conflicts, high interest rates, rampant inflation, and slowing growth...
Maples Group
BVI Approved Managers are required to file an annual return with the BVI Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") by 31 January 2024 in respect of the preceding year...
Conyers
Funds in the BVI may be incorporated as business companies or
formed as partnerships or unit trusts.
Conyers
This article clarifies some of those questions and shares some of Conyers' guidance on the recovery of debts by a deceased's personal representatives in the BVI.
Ogier
For investment managers investing into relatively illiquid asset classes (for example, managers to private equity funds, venture funds...
Oneworld Ltd
In June 2015, The BVI issued the Securities and Investment Business regulations that introduced the two new fund regimes, the BVI incubator and approved funds. Both funds mainly focus on two types of managers...
Walkers
The BVI Business Companies Act (as amended) (the "Act") introduced the requirement for BVI companies to file an annual return (otherwise known as a financial return)...
Walkers
Few areas of finance are developing faster than crypto-assets, a category that includes cryptocurrencies, securities tokens and utility tokens, whose common feature is use of distributed ledger technology (DLT).
European Union
Harneys
On 26 March 2024, Directive (EU) 2024/927 (AIFMD II) amending the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive 2011/61/EU (AIFMD) and the Undertaking for Collective Investment...
Carey Olsen
Our investment funds team outline the latest developments within the investment funds market in the British Virgin Islands ("BVI")...
Harneys
On 7 February 2024, the European Parliament adopted the final version of the text amending the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD 2.0).
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