Locations

Cayman Islands

Background

Cayman Islands

Loeb Smith Cayman Islands office provides comprehensive legal advice on the laws of the Cayman Islands.

We regularly advise on the high value cases and deals in the Cayman Islands. For near a decade our Cayman Islands office has provided a full range of the Cayman Islands commercial legal services in the broad areas of investment funds, private equity, corporate and M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, blockchain technology, fintech & cryptocurrency transactions, private wealth and family office, disputes resolution, intellectual property, restructuring and insolvency.

Regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, apart from legal services, we also provide regulatory and compliance, entity formation and managed services as well as consulting services. Our clients are both local and international and comprise private clients, large financial institutions and local Cayman Islands businesses. We also service a strong base of clients in the US, UK, Canada and throughout Europe.

  • address

    Fifth Floor, Zephyr House, 122 Mary Street, George Town, PO Box 31493, Grand Cayman, KY1-1206, Cayman Islands

    (Postal Address:  P.O. Box 31493, Grand Cayman KY1-1206, Cayman Islands)

  • email info@loebsmith.com
  • telephone +1 (345) 749 7591

Why the Cayman Islands?

Cayman has established itself as a mature, sophisticated international financial services centre. Its competitive strength lies in its ability to provide an effective and cost-efficient tax-neutral platform for international capital flows. Cayman offers a one-stop-shop for clients, supported by an excellent professional infrastructure in an environment of economic and political stability.

This stability also highlights the Cayman Islands’ diligence in ensuring adherence to recognised and relevant international standards in regulation, tax information exchange and prevention of financial crime under the leadership of the country’s principal financial regulator, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. It is a leading jurisdiction for the formation of investment funds and structured finance issuers, and a popular choice for Cayman companies to be listed on worldwide’s stock exchanges n matters of Cayman Islands law in the following practice areas

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Loeb Smith is an offshore corporate law firm with a wealth of experience of providing expert advice and guidance on Cayman Islands Law.

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Practice Areas

  • Including complex group financings and corporate debt refinancing, including syndicated loan agreements, private placements and inter-creditor agreements and debt subordination issues; registration of security and enforceability of security documentation, parent and sister company guarantees and first demand guarantees; asset-backed and receivable financing.

  • Including token offerings, ICOs, establishing crypto exchanges.

  • Including company incorporations, formation of limited partnerships, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs.

  • Enforcement of security, asset tracing, schemes of arrangement and other Court driven restructurings, and voluntary liquidations.

  • Our investment funds group has extensive experience in advising on the formation, structuring and launch of a broad range of investment funds in the Cayman Islands, including the following asset classes: –

    • Hedge Funds
    • Private Equity Funds
    • Venture Capital
    • Infrastructure Project Funds
    • Cryptocurrency Funds
    • Open-ended Funds
      • Registered Funds
      • Administration Funds
      • Limited Investor
      • Listed Funds
    • And more ….
  • Over the past few years, there have been dramatic changes in the way high-net-worth (HNW) families in Hong Kong, Singapore and Asia Pacific.  Cayman Islands have a wide variety of succession planning options that a HNW family will consider attractive, including: –

    • IPO planning 
    • Structuring 
    • Family office set up and governance
    • Trust Advisory and establishment
    • Developing Policies and Procedures and Best Practices
    • Registration of Intellectual Property 
    • Business succession planning
    • Legacy
    • And much more….
  • Our compliance and governance team is comprised of experienced professionals in advising clients on all aspects of offshore compliance.  Our team has a range of regulatory and compliance solutions to support clients and to ease the regulatory burden by providing clients with practical assistance to meeting their compliance and regulatory obligations.  Our team can assist with both regulated corporates and non-regulated corporates: –

    • Manuals with prevention policies and procedures draft and review
    • Economic Substance compliance health checks
    • Outsourcing resources
    • Formation and liquidation support
    • Beneficial ownership compliance health check
    • Compliance monitoring from FATCA, CRS and AML/KYC
    • And much more…
办公地点

开曼群岛

背景

开曼群岛

Loeb Smith 开曼群岛办公室就开曼群岛法律提供全面的法律咨询。

我们日常为开曼群岛的高价值案件和交易提供法律咨询。近十年来,我们的开曼群岛办公室在投资基金、私募股权、公司及并购、银行和金融、资本市场、区块链技术、金融科技和加密货币交易、私人财富和家族办公室、争议解决、知识产权、重组和破产等领域提供全方位的开曼群岛商业法律服务。

受开曼群岛金融管理局监管,除了法律服务外,我们还提供监管合规、实体设立和托管服务以及咨询服务。我们的客户涵盖本地和国际,包括私人客户、大型金融机构和开曼群岛本地企业。我们服务于美国、英国、加拿大以及欧洲各地的强大客户群。

  • address

    Fifth Floor, Zephyr House, 122 Mary Street, George Town, PO Box 31493, Grand Cayman, KY1-1206, Cayman Islands

    (邮政地址: P.O. Box 31493, Grand Cayman KY1-1206, Cayman Islands)

  • email info@loebsmith.com
  • telephone +1 (345) 749 7591

为何选择开曼群岛?

开曼群岛已成为一个成熟完善的国际金融服务中心。其竞争优势在于能够为国际资本流动提供高效、经济且税收中性的平台。开曼群岛为客户提供一站式服务,并在经济和政治稳定的环境中拥有卓越的专业基础设施。

这种稳定性也凸显了开曼群岛在其主要金融监管机构——开曼群岛金融管理局的领导下,在监管、税务信息交换和金融犯罪预防方面严格遵守公认的相关国际标准。开曼群岛是投资基金和结构性融资发行人设立的领先司法管辖区,也是开曼群岛公司在全球证券交易所上市的热门选择,涉及以下领域的开曼群岛法律事务。

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Loeb Smith 是一家离岸律师事务所,在提供开曼群岛法律方面的
专家建议和指导方面拥有丰富的经验。

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专业领域

  • 包括复杂的团体融资和公司债务再融资,包括银团贷款协议、私募和债权人间协议以及债务从属问题;担保登记和担保文件的可执行性、母公司和姊妹公司担保和见索即付担保;资产抵押融资和应收账款融资。

  • 包括代币发行、ICO、建立加密货币交易所

  • 包括公司注册成立、有限合伙企业设立、合资企业、并购、首次公开募股 (IPO)

  • 执行担保、资产追踪、债务偿还安排及其他法院主导的重组以及自愿清算。

  • 我们的投资基金团队在开曼群岛设立、构建和推出各类投资基金方面拥有丰富的经验,涵盖以下资产类别:

    • 对冲基金
    • 私募股权基金
    • 风险投资基金
    • 基础设施项目基金
    • 加密货币基金
    • 开放式基金
      • 注册基金
      • 行政管理型基金
      • 有限投资者基金
      • 上市基金
    • 以及更多……
  • 过去几年,香港、新加坡和亚太地区的高净值 (HNW) 家庭的财富传承方式发生了巨大变化。开曼群岛提供各种高净值家庭认为具有吸引力的继任规划方案,包括:

    • IPO 规划
    • 架构设计
    • 家族办公室设立及治理
    • 信托咨询及设立
    • 制定政策、程序及最佳实践
    • 知识产权登记
    • 企业继任规划
    • 遗产传承
    • 以及更多……
  • 我们的合规与治理团队由经验丰富的专业人士组成,致力于为客户提供离岸合规各方面的咨询服务。我们的团队提供一系列监管与合规解决方案,为客户提供切实可行的协助,帮助他们履行合规与监管义务,从而减轻监管负担。我们的团队可以为受监管企业和非受监管企业提供以下服务:

    • 预防政策和程序手册的起草与审核
    • 经济实质合规健康检查
    • 外包资源
    • 公司设立与清算支持
    • 实益所有权合规健康检查
    • FATCA、CRS 和 AML/KYC 合规监控
    • 以及更多……