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Cayman Islands Reform Their Offshore Laws

The Cayman Islands passed three pieces of offshore legislation yesterday, with a goal of modernizing the industry. The largest reform was 13 new provisions added to the Cayman Companies Law, as well as amendments to the companion legislation. The changes address issues ranging from uncertainty over mergers to the transfer of shares electronically as well as smaller issues such as providing for foreign script dual names on legal documents without direct translations. Issues related to treasury shares, share redemption and repurchases, and execution of documents were also touched upon.

Besides the company law, amendments were made to the securities Investment Business Bill and the Property Bill.  Charles Jennings, Chairman of the Financial Services Legislative Committee, has said that there are several more proposals in development.

hese amendments are the end result of an extensive consultation process, aimed at addressing client and market-driven issues that have arisen in practice. It is expected to increase the attractiveness of the Cayman Islands as a domicile for corporate entities and maintain our competitive edge. Therefore, our local industry will benefit ten-fold from these new amendments, creating new opportunities for growth in this key sector of our economy, said McKeeva Bush, Cayman premier.

Bush pointed out that the offshore finance world is growing increasingly competitive, and demands constant innovation. t is important when we are challenged on what we do here to amend laws to stay competitive, Bush stated. here are many, many competitors. All those little islands that were once agriculture based are doing finance business. We can't sit down and do nothing, we have to be innovative.....We can't fight G20.We have to be transparent with the right legislation and keep our nose clean. /p>