Part of our series of Trustee Knowledge Papers, set out to be a useful reference guide for all levels of Trust company administration; from junior administrator to director.
Your will could expire after you marry again
Several events that occur during many of our lives should be considered reminders for us to review our estate planning documents. Three such events are marriage, births and the transfer of assets during one’s lifetime, among others.
Regulatory Round-Up: Cayman Islands Q3 2021
Appleby Cayman’s Our latest Regulatory updates for the Cayman Islands up to Q3 2021.
Jersey: an evolving global platform: Jersey First for Finance 2021
This article, taken from Jersey ~ First for Finance ‒ Celebrating 60 Years of Finance 1961-2021 was authored by Iain Millar, Group Partner for our Appleby Jersey corporate team.
Notaries: Are Simple Certifications a Thing Anymore?
Notaries are primarily concerned with the authentication and certification of signatures, authority and capacity relating to documents for use overseas. For centuries, notarial acts have been recognised and accepted at home and abroad.
The Last Rites for the Siskina?
On 4 October 2021, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council delivered its much anticipated decision in Broad Idea International Limited v. Convoy Collateral [2021] UKPC 24 (Convoy Collateral). Dissenting as to the reasoning but not the outcome, Sir Geoffrey Vos (with whom Lords Reed and Hodge agreed) described the decision of the majority as being “groundbreaking”.
Navigating the Jersey M&A landscape (2 of 3)
This is the second of a series of three articles, each dealing with topics to be considered when buying, selling and/or restructuring businesses that have premises and/or people in Jersey to help clients and intermediaries navigate the M&A landscape from a Jersey perspective.
Labour disputes and certification/decertification process
There has been much discussion in the news recently about labour disputes between different unionised employee groups and the Government of Bermuda. This article discusses the law around those disputes, generally, and specifically considers the process by which employees become unionised (known as the ‘certification’ process) and the process by which unionised employees de-unionise (known as ‘decertification’).
Bermuda:Re+ILS speaks to Brad Adderley, partner at Appleby, about how Bermuda will maintain its position as a jurisdiction of choice for re/insurance in a post-COVID-19 world.
In line with the National Budget 2021-2022 and the ambition of the Mauritian Government to establish Mauritius as a hub for emerging technologies, the FSC issued the Financial Services (Crowdfunding) Rules 2021 on 10 September 2021 (Crowdfunding Rules). The operative date the Crowdfunding Rules is 04 September 2021.
Trustees are under a statutory duty to keep accurate records of their trusteeship, but what does that mean in practice when recording trustees’ decisions? We are often asked to prepare minutes for trustees when they are faced with a set of complex circumstances and more often than not a key component of trustees’ minutes is missing or contains little detail: what is the benefit to the beneficiaries?
Navigating the Jersey M&A landscape
This is the first of a series of three articles, each dealing with topics to be considered when buying, selling and/or restructuring businesses that have premises and/or people in Jersey to help clients and intermediaries navigate the M&A landscape from a Jersey perspective.