During a Westminster Hall Debate on Offshore Financial Centres, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, welcomed the British Virgin Islands’ place on the OECD White List, in response to an intervention from the new Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the British Virgin Islands, Mark Pritchard MP.

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As you're all probably aware, part of this year's company strategy at ifina has been to really become ONE company, with strong functional centres placed around the globe. Our recent expansion in central europe has brought specific expert knowledge and experience to the table, which in turn will help us develop and expand our business in these exciting regions.

Sam Bratchie and myself had the recent pleasure of a trip to help unify this expertise and met with Hans Messmer, Gabriele Whittaker and Dr. Helmut Raffelsberger in Zurich. Hans, Gabriele and Helmut respectfully head up our Swiss and ...

Clifford Chance have recently put together a very useful client briefing sheet that helpfully explains many of the surrounding issues...

With decisive votes in both the European Parliament and the EU Council having taken place recently, the innocent bystander would be forgiven for concluding that the major debates on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) Directive are now behind us and that the path to implementation is clear. Sadly, that is not the case. There are some very significant differences remaining between the Parliament and Council texts and these will now need to be resolved through a "Trialogue" process. This ...