Offshore Law
With a strong presence from hong kong and also benefiting from offices in shanghai and singapore maples group has excellent credentials across southeast asia and is able to provide a coordinated offering to clients on the bvi cayman islands and ireland law aspects of their work.
Offshore law. Chris byrne maples and calder. The same firms are also increasingly advising on the laws of onshore financial centres especially ireland. Chris is the managing partner of maples and calder jersey llp. He advises banks and other specialist lenders and corporates on commercial law issues and also has significant expertise in advising family office and philanthropic entities.
A company group or sometimes a division thereof which engages in offshoring business processes. Many people and entities have the same or similar names. Business commercial real estate and immigration law since 1996. Led by the excellent anthony webster the firm has one of the market leading offshore funds practices in hong.
Even by recent standards 2019 was an extraordinary year in geopolitical and macro economic terms. The top 30 offshore law firms 2018. We specialize in the formation and management. Maples and calder is still the biggest offshore law firm in the world followed by walkers and mourant ozannes.
Us china trade wars brexit uncertainty volatility in the us dollar gbp exchange rate tension in hong kong and the growing risk of a global economic downturn says jonathan rigby global managing partner of. Offshore law center is a panama based law firm specializing in. Of foreign corporations together with establishing. Offshore legal provides law firms banks government bodies and other financial institutions with lawyers paralegals legal secretaries corporate administrators trust and compliance officers.
Offshore financial law trusts and related tax issues. Troubles in paradise offshore law firms were hit with a double whammy last year violent hurricanes and the paradise papers scandal. The only book with a focus on offshore trusts. The term offshore company or offshore corporation is used in at least two distinct and different ways an offshore company may be a reference to.
Banking and brokerage introductions. Covers all aspects of offshore financial law including tax for a comprehensive understanding of the issues. International business companies ibc or other types of legal entities which are incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction that prohibits. But on the ground things seemed a little different for many offshore law firms.
There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts.