Up until the landmark Privy Council decision in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd & Ors No 2 (Bermuda) [2025] UKPC 34, a company could not, in the course...
Financial Crime Digest spoke with Barry Faudemer, Chief Executive of Baker Regulatory Services, regarding the evolving landscape of asset tracing and financial regulation. Faudemer...
Trusts are a wonderfully flexible and durable means of preserving and enhancing family businesses and wealth over generations, as is evidenced by the fact that they remain as relev...
Désastre is one of several insolvency (or bankruptcy) procedures available under Jersey law. Of the Jersey procedures, it bears the most resemblance to bankruptcy in common law ju...
Corporate skeletons can make for costly surprises. This article outlines a framework and recommendations for each stage of an acquisition to safeguard the integrity of the transact...
With a significant proportion of companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange incorporated in the Cayman Islands and approximately 223 Cayman-incorporated, PRC companies listed...
An exploration of insolvency trends and developments in the crypto, DAOs and digital assets space following a roundtable with Rajah & Tann and the Baker & Partners Cayman team.
The way an organisation responds to a regulatory crisis is often as important as the crisis itself. A thoughtful, transparent, and expertly led approach to verification and remedia...
Never come across the term Decentralised Autonomous Organisation ("DAO") before? You’re not alone, but as of 13 January 2025, these virtual organisations held over US $32.2 billi...
Imagine discovering as a newly appointed Non-Executive Director of a financial services business that a series of unfortunate events have snowballed and now alleged breaches of the...
The amendments to the BVI Business Companies Act 2004 (as amended), aimed at enhancing the BVI's regulatory landscape, officially came into effect on 2 January 2025 (the “Effecti...
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal has ruled that the “no consent” regime, under which the Hong Kong police can withhold consent to move suspect funds indefinitely without a c...
The MoneyVal report is unquestionably a huge success for Jersey and reflects the hard work over a number of years of all the stakeholders, and those that made a contribution can be...
The Interplay of Arbitration and Insolvency Law following the Privy Council’s Decision in Sian Participation v Halimeda
On 2 November 2023, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former billionaire head of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX), was convicted on seven counts of fraud, co...
Shula Sbarro, Senior Associate, at Baker & Partners participated in The Burford Quarterly roundtable discussing offshore insolvency trends.
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