Locations

Cayman Islands

Background

Cayman Islands

Loeb Smith Cayman Islands office provides comprehensive legal advice on the laws of the Cayman Islands.

We regularly advise on the high value cases and deals in the Cayman Islands. For near a decade our Cayman Islands office has provided a full range of the Cayman Islands commercial legal services in the broad areas of investment funds, private equity, corporate and M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, blockchain technology, fintech & cryptocurrency transactions, private wealth and family office, disputes resolution, intellectual property, restructuring and insolvency.

Regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, apart from legal services, we also provide regulatory and compliance, entity formation and managed services as well as consulting services. Our clients are both local and international and comprise private clients, large financial institutions and local Cayman Islands businesses. We also service a strong base of clients in the US, UK, Canada and throughout Europe.

Why the Cayman Islands?

Cayman has established itself as a mature, sophisticated international financial services centre. Its competitive strength lies in its ability to provide an effective and cost-efficient tax-neutral platform for international capital flows. Cayman offers a one-stop-shop for clients, supported by an excellent professional infrastructure in an environment of economic and political stability.

This stability also highlights the Cayman Islands’ diligence in ensuring adherence to recognised and relevant international standards in regulation, tax information exchange and prevention of financial crime under the leadership of the country’s principal financial regulator, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. It is a leading jurisdiction for the formation of investment funds and structured finance issuers, and a popular choice for Cayman companies to be listed on worldwide’s stock exchanges n matters of Cayman Islands law in the following practice areas

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Loeb Smith is an offshore corporate law firm with a wealth of experience of providing expert advice and guidance on Cayman Islands Law.

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Practice Areas

  • Including complex group financings and corporate debt refinancing, including syndicated loan agreements, private placements and inter-creditor agreements and debt subordination issues; registration of security and enforceability of security documentation, parent and sister company guarantees and first demand guarantees; asset-backed and receivable financing.

  • Including token offerings, ICOs, establishing crypto exchanges.

  • Including company incorporations, formation of limited partnerships, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs.

  • Enforcement of security, asset tracing, schemes of arrangement and other Court driven restructurings, and voluntary liquidations.

  • Our investment funds group has extensive experience in advising on the formation, structuring and launch of a broad range of investment funds in the Cayman Islands, including the following asset classes: –

    • Hedge Funds
    • Private Equity Funds
    • Venture Capital
    • Infrastructure Project Funds
    • Cryptocurrency Funds
    • Open-ended Funds
      • Registered Funds
      • Administration Funds
      • Limited Investor
      • Listed Funds
    • And more ….

  • Over the past few years, there have been dramatic changes in the way high-net-worth (HNW) families in Hong Kong, Singapore and Asia Pacific.  Cayman Islands have a wide variety of succession planning options that a HNW family will consider attractive, including: –

    • IPO planning 
    • Structuring 
    • Family office set up and governance
    • Trust Advisory and establishment
    • Developing Policies and Procedures and Best Practices
    • Registration of Intellectual Property 
    • Business succession planning
    • Legacy
    • And much more….

  • Our compliance and governance team is comprised of experienced professionals in advising clients on all aspects of offshore compliance.  Our team has a range of regulatory and compliance solutions to support clients and to ease the regulatory burden by providing clients with practical assistance to meeting their compliance and regulatory obligations.  Our team can assist with both regulated corporates and non-regulated corporates: –

    • Manuals with prevention policies and procedures draft and review
    • Economic Substance compliance health checks
    • Outsourcing resources
    • Formation and liquidation support
    • Beneficial ownership compliance health check
    • Compliance monitoring from FATCA, CRS and AML/KYC
    • And much more…
Key Contacts

Key Contacts

Gary Smith, Partner
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Gary Smith

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Robert Farrell, Partner
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Robert Farrell

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