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Jan 22, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Matt Sanders |Craig Cordle |Jessica Robinson |Charlotte Goncalves
W Walkers More Walkers is a leading international law firm which advises on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey. From our 10 offices, we provide legal, corporate and fiduciary services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital markets participants and investment fund managers.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Matt Sanders |Craig Cordle |Jessica Robinson |Charlotte Goncalves
KEY TAKEAWAYSGuernsey's latest fund regulatory regime is the privateinvestment fund (PIF) regimeThe PIF Rules provide appropriate funds with a fast-tracked,proportionate and "light touch" regulatory regimeThis guide discusses the three PIF "routes" toobtaining regulatory approval, and their differing featuresThe Private Investment Fund Rules ("PIF") regime wasupdated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission("GFSC") in 2021 to expand the available PIF productoptions.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Matt Sanders |Craig Cordle |Jessica Robinson |Charlotte Goncalves
KEY TAKEAWAYS Guernsey has long been one of the world's premier jurisdictions for investment funds There are a number of advantages for using Guernsey as a jurisdiction, including the wide variety of company and limited partnership structures available This guide explains the features of Guernsey fund structures, the processes for obtaining regulatory approval, and the effect of European Union directives on the marketing of Guernsey funds into Europe Guernsey has long been one of the world's...
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Craig Cordle |Chris Hutley-Hurst |Matt Sanders
KEY TAKEAWAYS Companies can be redomiciled into and out of Guernsey using a statutory process known as migration Upon migration, the company retains all property, rights and liabilities This guide sets out the requirements from a Guernsey perspective to effect a migration From a Guernsey legal perspective, a reference to the 'migration' of a company is a reference to the process of the transfer of the company's registration to another jurisdiction, whilst maintaining the legal personality of...
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Craig Cordle |Jessica Robinson |Matt Sanders
Protected cell companies were implemented in Guernsey in 1997
– the first jurisdiction to do so
PCCs contain a core, and statutorily segregated cells, to which
shares, assets, and liabilities are attributed.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Craig Cordle |Chris Hutley-Hurst |Matt Sanders
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Walkers
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Walkers is a leading international law firm which advises on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey. From our 10 offices, we provide legal, corporate and fiduciary services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital markets participants and investment fund managers.
Companies can be redomiciled into and out of Guernsey using a statutory process known as migration...
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Sarah Brehaut |Matt Sanders
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Walkers
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Walkers is a leading international law firm which advises on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey. From our 10 offices, we provide legal, corporate and fiduciary services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital markets participants and investment fund managers.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Craig Cordle |Chris Hutley-Hurst |Matt Sanders
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Walkers
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Walkers is a leading international law firm which advises on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey. From our 10 offices, we provide legal, corporate and fiduciary services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital markets participants and investment fund managers.
Guernsey companies are extremely popular, and are used for a wide variety of purposes.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Matt Sanders |Sarah Brehaut
Guernsey companies that have been struck off can often be
restored to the Register.
A Court application is required in almost all cases.
This guide sets out the procedure, limitations, costs and
effect of a restoration.
Applications to restore are sought for various reasons,
including where a company has continued to own assets despite being
voluntarily struck off, or where a company has continued to trade
in circumstances where it was struck off for failure to file its
annual validation.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sarah Brehaut |Matt Sanders
Applications to restore are sought for various reasons, including where a company has continued to own assets despite being voluntarily struck off, or where a company has continued to trade in circumstances where it was struck off for failure to file its annual validation. This memo provides a summary of the steps for restoring a company to the register. In Guernsey, a company can be struck off the register of companies either on a voluntary or compulsory basis.
