Corporate Advice

Our Corporate Practice Group provides expert legal advice on a full range of corporate matters including:

  • Tall office building
    • Legal due diligence reports
    • Issuing Legal Opinions
    • Series financing transactions
    • Cross border joint venture transactions
    • Solvent group reorganizations via scheme of arrangement and share for share exchanges
    • Acquisition and disposal of shares and business assets
    • Re-domiciliation of corporate vehicles from other jurisdictions to the Cayman Islands the BVI.
    • Application for regulatory licenses relating to VASP, Captive Insurance and Securities Investment Business
    • Migration of corporate vehicles from the Cayman Islands or the BVI to other jurisdictions
    • Shareholders' rights, including derivative actions and class actions
    • Fiduciary issues for directors of Cayman companies/BVI companies and general partners of limited partnerships
    • Equity Capital Markets
    • Real estate structuring, acquisitions and disposals

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Legal Expertise

Our Corporate Practice Group provides expert legal advice on a full range of corporate matters including:

  • Tall office building
    • Legal due diligence reports
    • Issuing Legal Opinions
    • Series financing transactions
    • Cross border joint venture transactions
    • Solvent group reorganizations via scheme of arrangement and share for share exchanges
    • Acquisition and disposal of shares and business assets
    • Re-domiciliation of corporate vehicles from other jurisdictions to the Cayman Islands the BVI.
    • Application for regulatory licenses relating to VASP, Captive Insurance and Securities Investment Business
    • Migration of corporate vehicles from the Cayman Islands or the BVI to other jurisdictions
    • Shareholders' rights, including derivative actions and class actions
    • Fiduciary issues for directors of Cayman companies/BVI companies and general partners of limited partnerships
    • Equity Capital Markets
    • Real estate structuring, acquisitions and disposals
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