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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
The following charts provide an overview of the composition of the Guernsey funds industry.
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
Guernsey is one of the world's largest offshore finance centres, with a thriving funds industry. Almost 1,000 investment funds, and well over 2,000 sub-funds, are currently administered in the island.
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
When setting up a Guernsey fund, there are certain practical matters to bear in mind to ensure that the establishment and operation proceed smoothly.
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
The flexible and pragmatic approach adopted by the GFSC in relation to investment funds aimed at the institutional or high net worth investor market has helped the significant growth of this sector in Guernsey.
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
A central tenet of the GFSC's approach to the regulation of funds is that the administrator of a Guernsey fund is required to satisfy itself that the promoter of the scheme is "fit and proper" by carrying out...
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
Guernsey funds are invariably structured as companies, unit trusts or limited partnerships.
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
The POI Law requires anyone who carries on "controlled investment business" in or from within the Bailiwick of Guernsey to hold a licence issued by the GFSC under the POI Law (a "POI Licence"; a "POI Licensee").
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Annette Alexander,
Christopher Anderson,
Andrew Boyce,
Matthew Brehaut,
Tom Carey (Guernsey),
David Crosland,
Tony Lane
Guernsey is a Crown Dependency. The Bailiwick of Guernsey (Guernsey, together with Herm, Sark, Alderney and the surrounding islets) is part of the British Isles but independent of the UK.
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Laila Arstall,
Russell Clark,
Konrad Friedlaender,
Chris Hutley-Hurst,
Natasha Kapp
Guernsey's rules on corporate tax residence changed at the beginning of 2019 following amendments to its existing tax law brought into effect by a combination of the Income Tax
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Chris Hutley-Hurst
Following an announcement in Guernsey's 2019 Annual Budget, revised draft legislation updating the island's corporate tax residence law has now been published.
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Miranda Dunlop
The EU's MAR introduced in 2016 continues to present real challenges for businesses seeking to issue certain forms of listed debt securities on any EU regulated market, multi-lateral trading facility or...
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Kate Andrews,
David Crosland,
Robert Milner,
Alex Ohlsson
The UK Government has announced that with effect from April 2019, it intends to bring non-UK investors into scope for either capital gains tax ("CGT") ...
One of the small, but important, details to arise from the recent case of Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited (in Liquidation) and others v. Conway and others [2017] was that the directors under fire in that case ...
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Adrian Sarchet
Lawyers from our corporate practice have drafted this note, which provides a brief synopsis of the common law duties owed by directors of companies incorporated in the Island of Guernsey.
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