20 Jan 2014
Susan Lock, Campbells Partner, assesses the options under The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). She discusses the potential impact on the Cayman Islands, how Campbells is helping clients navigate this challenge, the establishment of European regulated structures, and the risks of non-EU managers to European investors.
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13 Jul 2013
In June 2011, the Cayman Islands Government announced its intention to introduce legislation providing for the registration of master funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands.
Following months of consultation with industry and stakeholders, the Cayman Islands Government has, on 5 December 011, passed the Mutual Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2011 providing for the registration of master funds of the Cayman Islands. There remain certain procedural steps to bring this piece of legislation into effect, although it is expected that it
will happen in the coming days and weeks, and in any event before the end of 2011, following
which Cayman Islands master funds will be required to be registered with CIMA.
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01 Feb 2013
The Cayman Islands’ Court of Appeal has now delivered its judgment in the case involving the winding up of FIA Leveraged Fund (the “Fund”). In dismissing the appeal, the Court of Appeal held that based on the wording in the offering documents for the Fund, the in specie distribution in question could only be made using assets from the Fund’s portfolio (the Fund was fully invested in the ultimate master fund, Fletcher International Ltd. (“The Master Fund”)) that were held by the Fund at the time when the investor was entitled to be paid its redemption monies. Further, even if the Fund’s documents stated that the directors of the Fund had a complete discretion as to the value of the assets to be distributed to the investor, that discretion is still limited as a matter of necessary implication by concepts of honesty, good faith and genuineness and a need for the absence of arbitrariness, capriciousness, perversity and irrationality.
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