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Introduction
As an offshore corporate law firm, we provide legal advice to banks and other financial institutions. Our banking and finance team provides advice and is highly experienced in Cayman Islands and BVI regulatory environment. We provide legal advice from complex cross-border transactions to restructuring both international and domestic markets from banks and other financial institutions.
Banking and Finance legal advice includes:
- The creation, protection, and priority of security interests
- The creation of guarantees and indemnities
- Contractual and structural subordination, including with respect to subordination and intercreditor arrangements
- Corporate benefit concerns arising out of the creation of third-party collateral support
- Registration of Security and the enforceability of security interests, guarantees 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
News and Insights
Key issues in series financing transactions from a BVI and a Cayman Islands law perspective
British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) and Cayman Islands companies have continued to play a significant role in series financing transactions in Asia and beyond as they offer a flexible, cost-competitive and well-tested means of deal structuring. The tax neutrality, the ability to close transactions electronically and the absence of…
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. While there are no “one size fits all” solutions to these issues, we set out some…
ESG In Finance Transactions and Investment Funds From An Offshore Law Perspective
2021 saw an unprecedented surge in ESG debt issuance which was arguably underpinned by growing investor appetite for sustainable and green-linked investments. For example, UK insurer Aviva reported that the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the likelihood of taking ESG factors into consideration for over 55 per cent of respondents…
Key Trends in Cayman and the BVI for Investment Funds, M&A, and Finance Transactions in 2022
With inflationary pressures coming to the fore in certain areas of the global economy and the continuing impact of Covid-19, there are many important and urgent issues to discuss. In our capacity as offshore legal advisers, we wanted to highlight some of the features from our Investment Funds/M&A…
