ARTICLE
20 March 2000

Memoranda on Cayman Islands Legal Issues and Structures

MG
Maples Group

Contributor

The Maples Group is a leading service provider offering clients a comprehensive range of legal services on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg, and is an independent provider of fiduciary, fund services, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services.
Cayman Islands Wealth Management

BANKS & TRUST COMPANIES

  • Bank and Trust Company Licensing
  • Banks - Destruction of Redundant Books and Records

CORPORATE

  • Company Check List
  • Companies Law (The) (1998 Revision)
  • Continuing Requirements (Post Incorporation)
  • Duties of a Director
  • Fees on Incorporation
  • Foreign Companies in the Cayman Islands
  • Grant, Perfection and Enforcement of Security in the Registered Shares of a Cayman Islands Company
  • Off-Balance Sheet Secured Securitizations Preferred Standard Procedures
  • Off-Balance Sheet Special Purpose Vehicles ("SPVs")
  • Offering of Shares in a Cayman Islands Company
  • Profits and Payments of Dividends
  • Redemption and Repurchase of Shares
  • Resealing of Foreign Grants of Probate
  • Special Purpose Finance Subsidiaries ("SPFS")
  • The Fraudulent Dispositions Law 1989
  • Voluntary Liquidation
  • Information Required for Incorporation of an Exempted Limited Company
  • Setting up a New Cayman Islands Company – Fact Sheet

GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS

  • Cayman Islands (The)
  • Cayman Islands vs Bermuda
  • Disclosure & Exchange of Information
  • Employment Requirements (Cayman Islands)
  • Maples and Calder - Members of the Firm (Biographies) and Contract of Employment
  • Patents and Trade Marks
  • Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Law (PCCL) 1996 – Money
  • Laundering Legislation
  • Sale of Securities

TRUSTS

  • Duties of a Trustee
  • Insolvent Trusts, Multiple Creditors and the Limitation of Liability
  • Offering of Units in a Cayman Islands Trust
  • Ordinary and Exempted Trust
  • Reserved Powers Trusts Under Cayman Islands Law
  • Special Trust Structures: A Helping Hand to the Professional Trustee?
  • Trusts - Planning for Entrepreneurs
  • Trusts -An Introduction to Setting up
  • The Special Trusts (Alternative Regime) Law 1997 ("STAR") - Special Purpose and other new Trust Structures under Cayman Islands Law
  • Requirements for a Restricted or Unrestricted Trust Licence

MUTAL FUNDS

  • Continuing Requirements (Mutual Funds)
  • Mutual Funds
  • The Cayman Islands - An Expanding Domicile for Offshore Funds
  • Sale to Public in Japan of Cayman Unit Trusts
  • Detailed description of Mutual Fund Regulation in the Cayman Islands

LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS

  • Exempted Limited Partnerships – Continuing Requirements (including ELPL 1991)
  • Offering of Interests in a Cayman Islands Exempted Limited Partnership

SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT

  • Aircraft Registration
  • Ship Registration
  • Special Purpose Company (SPC) Aircraft Financing Structures: The Offshore Arrangements

INSURANCE

  • Insurance - Common and Statutory Law Requirements
  • Insurance Company Licensing

LISTING

  • Listing of an Exempted Cayman Islands Holding Company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) Issues of Asset Backed or other Debt Securities
  • Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) Mutual Funds
  • Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) Secondary Listings

For copies of any of the above please contact Jane Foster, Director of Marketing, Maples and Calder Europe, on Telephone +44 (207) 466 1600, Facsimile +44 (207) 466 1700.

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