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On the brink of insolvency: When should directors consider the interests of creditors?

In the recent decision of BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and others, the English Court of Appeal issued helpful guidance regarding the question of when the directors of a company in financi...

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Regulating the regulators: the importance of public law

One aspect of compliance that rarely gets mentioned is public law compliance. Public bodies, just like commercial businesses, must act lawfully. Whilst companies are governed by their corpora...

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On the brink of insolvency: When should directors consider the interests of creditors?

In the recent decision of BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and others, the English Court of Appeal issued helpful guidance regarding the question of when the directors of a company in financi...

Published

07 June 2019

Regulating the regulators: the importance of public law

One aspect of compliance that rarely gets mentioned is public law compliance. Public bodies, just like commercial businesses, must act lawfully. Whilst companies are governed by their corpora...

Published

28 May 2019

Guidance on Guernsey's economic substance requirements published

On Friday 26 April, the States of Guernsey published its guidance on economic substance, having consulted with industry to clarify legislative and reporting requirements to meet the EU Counc...

Published

29 April 2019

Guernsey to the rescue for in-deficit pension schemes

A longevity swap provides both a definitive solution or a useful stepping stone on route to de-risking, depending on the maturity of a defined benefit pension scheme, delegates heard at a Guerns...

Published

28 March 2019

Zone of insolvency – Directors in the firing line

2018 saw a number of high-profile insolvencies around the world. That trend is expected to continue this year with many sectors facing an extremely challenging trading environment and the ...

Published

28 March 2019

Captive provides discrete and complementary solution

Lane, Clark and Peacock, a leading independent, owner-managed pension, investment and insurance consultancy in the UK, published their 2019 report on pension de-risking on 27 March. The repo...

Published

27 March 2019

Guernsey features in new UN green and sustainable finance report

Guernsey is part of an international movement driving the transition to a low-carbon economic model, highlighted at a high-level conference on sustainable finance taking place in Brusse...

Published

21 March 2019

Guernsey satisfies EU business substance requirements

Guernsey’s global competitiveness as a finance sector has been further enhanced following confirmation from the EU Council’s Code of Conduct Group and the European Council of Finance Ministe...

Published

12 March 2019

EU reaffirms Guernsey as a co-operative Jurisdiction

The States of Guernsey has published its own response to the ECOFIN confirmation on Guernsey's response to legal economic substance requirements in tax governance  The Economic and Financi...

Published

12 March 2019

Open Letter to the signatories of amendments NC3, NC4 and NC5 to the Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill

Guernsey's Chief Minister Gavin St Pier has written an open letter to MPs regarding proposed amendments NC3, NC4 and NC5 to the Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill De...

Published

06 March 2019