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We Won!! Many thanks indeed to our clients and peers who voted Loeb Smith the Best Law Firm: Fund Domicile at the US Emerging Manager Awards 2023 organized by Private Equity Wire.

Why and Where Do You Need to Be Offshore? Wendy Au of Loeb Smith Hong Kong office shared her insight with SS&C Intralinks on what makes offshore destinations attractive to Asia-based fund managers with some key considerations and the different options available for fund domiciles.

Following the conclusion of the FATF’s most recent plenary on 23 June 2023, the FATF has determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan. Therefore, subject only to the completion of an on-site visit by the FATF later this year, which forms part of the…

Learn about the Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASP) Act in the British Virgin Islands, including registration requirements, services regulated under the act, and transitional timelines for businesses operating in virtual assets.

By way of an update on our recent publication (which can be found here) that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had determined that the Cayman Islands has substantively fulfilled its action plan, and following completion of a recent on-site visit by the FATF, the Cayman Islands has…

Loeb Smith wins award for Best Law Firm: Fund Domicile at the Hedgeweek US Emerging Manager Awards 2023. We are happy to share with you that for the second time in less than three (3) months Loeb Smith’s Investment Funds team has been voted Best Law Firm: Fund…

Loeb Smith has been shortlisted in the Best Law Firm – Fund Domicile category at the US Emerging Manager Awards 2023! We are pleased to announce that Loeb Smith has been shortlisted for the Hedgeweek US Emerging Manager Awards 2023 in the Best Law Firm – Fund Domicile…

This article follows our previous article of 5 January 2023 which considered, in broad terms, the changes to the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (the Companies Act) of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) brought about by The Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2022 (the Amendment Act). This article will…