Fintech: Financing of the Future

FinTech has altered the way transactions are conducted with the creation and use of blockchain technology.

Whose money is it? Financial disclosure and judicial assistance in changing time

For a number of decades, The Bahamas has been one of a number of select jurisdictions utilised by high...

The Litigator’s Toolbox – Without Prejudice

In this article I shall take from the Litigators Toolbox the term “without prejudice,” which is often employed inappropriately....

The Opportunity of a Lifetime: The Bahamas as a Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

In the late 2010s, the Government of The Bahamas enacted The Arbitration Act, 2009 as “an act to restate...

INSOL New York – Bahamas Update

Insolvent trust - A novel area of the law in The Bahamas and other common law jurisdictions where there...

Artificial Intelligence in the Law

At the 2017 Firm seminar, Weathering a Changing Climate, we discussed the opportunity, myths and reality of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)...

Trusts in the Cayman Islands

A trust is a legal relationship where one party (the “Settlor”) transfers property to the Trustee to hold the legal...

Sham – To Be or Not to Be? A summary of the MezhProm Bank v Pugachev decision

On 11th October 2017, the English High Court of Justice, Chancery Division published its decision in JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy...

Protection of the Fruits of Advice by Privilege

The doctrine of legal professional privilege will most commonly arise where a party is requested to produce documents in...