Guernsey: Contracts and Commercial Law

This guide explores the latest legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments in Guernsey and provides expert analysis on industry-wide topics including the local legal framework, the main stages of a fraud case, parallel proceedings, cross-jurisdictional mechanisms, recent developments, technology and other impacting factors.

This chapter provides the latest information on alternative investment funds and retail funds in Guernsey; including fund formation, restrictions on investors, the regulatory environment, operational requirements...

Welcome to Collas Crill's first Channel Islands contract law update. Why do we need a Channel Islands specific contract law update? Well, let's start with a history lesson.

This briefing is an update of our briefing note of August 2021, which explained the format of the Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the European Commission in June 2021.

Guernsey introduced legislation permitting the formation of cell companies through the Protected Cell Companies Ordinance in 1997 – the first country in the world to do so. Incorporated cell companies...

Guernsey's Aircraft Registry (the "Registry" or "2-REG") fulfils a key role in the global aviation sector by providing an interim register for commercial aircraft transitioning between leases.

Although the fund finance market has historically been, and continues to be, a particularly low-risk one for lenders

It is rare that directors foreshadow claims against them, and often claims arise with little if any warning, from what directors may consider to have been historic transactional decision-making.

This briefing note provides an outline of the different processes of voluntary winding up and striking off under the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended) (the "Law").