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Introduction
Our investment funds group has extensive experience in advising fund or investment managers on the formation, structuring and launch of a broad range of investment funds in the Cayman Islands and in the British Virgin Islands.
We provide a comprehensive set of Cayman Islands Law/BVI Law Investment Funds advice including: –
- Hedge Funds
- Private Equity Funds
- Venture Capital
- Infrastructure Project Funds
- Cryptocurrency Funds
- Tokenized Funds
- Real Estate Funds
- Distressed Funds
- Other Asset Classes
Loeb Smith Attorneys are experts in advising on the formation, structuring, launch, re-organisation and on-going issues relating to Cayman Islands investment funds and BVI domiciled investment funds.
Client representations have included:
- The structuring, formation and launch of several private equity funds structured as segregated portfolio companies targeting private equity opportunities across several emerging Latin America and Asian markets.
- The structuring, formation and launch of a private equity fund structured as segregated portfolio company (with two of its segregated portfolios making a Shariah compliant offering) targeting private equity opportunities across the MENA region.
- Advising a US institutional investor on the subscription terms, redemption terms, imposition of redemption restrictions, and the enforceability of its side letter with the fund and its manager in connection with its seed capital investment in a large multi-strategy hedge fund.
- Advising on the soft wind down of a number of Distressed Funds and the sale of a number of their Madoff related claims on the secondary market.
News and Insights
Loeb Smith Attorneys advises China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited, Yue Xiu Securities Holdings Limited and Park Capital Group on various financing, funds and corporate matters
Hong Kong January 16, 2025 Loeb Smith Attorneys, one of the leading offshore corporate law firms with a strong growing presence in the APAC region, has recently acted as special offshore counsel and advised various clients on the different aspects and stages of their transactions and matters, including…
What are the key laws and rules that govern Cayman Islands’ investment funds?
Open-Ended 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…
Cayman Islands: Private Funds
This article will provide a general overview of the steps involved in the formation and running of a closed-ended investment fund in the Cayman Islands pursuant to the Private Funds Act (As Revised) (the “Act”).
Loeb Smith promotes Robert Farrell as Partner in Cayman Islands Corporate and Investment Funds Group
Loeb Smith is pleased to welcome Ivy Wong to the firm as Senior Legal Director for its Corporate practice in the Hong Kong office, where her practice focuses on advising multi-national corporations and conglomerates, shareholders, investment funds, financial institutions, banks, public and private companies, as well as high…
Using a segregated portfolio company for private equity funds
Could you briefly explain the concept of the Segregated Portfolio Company? Once registered under the Cayman Islands Companies Law, a segregated portfolio company (“SPC”) can operate segregated portfolios (“SPs”) with the benefit of statutory segregation of assets and liabilities between portfolios.
