Regional news: Jersey

A group led by George Soros’ investment management firm, New York-headquartered Fortress Investment, and middle market lender Monroe Capital is planning to buy troubled media group Vice out of bankruptcy.

15 May 2023

In a decision that lawyers say will have a “far-reaching and long-lasting” impact on the offshore trusts industry, the UK Privy Council has found that trustees have a proprietary interest in trust property in relation to their rights of indemnity, which survives when a successor takes over – and that successive trustees should be ranked pari passu in respect of that interest if there aren’t enough trust assets to go round.

17 October 2022

The joint liquidators of a Jersey-incorporated investment holding vehicle owned by an ex-Russian senator turned US citizen have sought recognition in California, where it is embroiled in local litigation with the vehicle’s former director.

12 August 2022

Delaware-based lender Therium Litigation Finance Atlas is seeking the winding up of a Cayman-registered litigation funder that carried out its business in the UK.

27 June 2022

UK-based NMC Health’s English administrators have obtained what is believed to be the first ever recognition decision from a court in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone, as the UAE administrators of the beleaguered healthcare group’s operating companies made a landmark announcement that they would exit administration before the end of the month.

18 March 2022

Mourant Ozannes partner Stephen Alexander and associate Chris Vincent examine the recent “landmark” changes to Jersey’s Companies Law, which they say reinforce the jurisdiction’s position as a leader among offshore international finance centres.

06 December 2021

The operator of online gambling platform Football Index has been placed into liquidation in Jersey, after its UK administration failed to produce a restructuring.

16 November 2021

Partner Stephen Alexander and associate Stephan Venter at Mourant in Jersey examine the growing practice of insolvency forum shopping and explain how Jersey’s Royal Court approached the subject in the recent Investin case.

04 October 2021

Days after the director of a Jersey-based investment vehicle lost his bid to restrain a creditor from presenting a winding up petition in the English courts, a London judge has ordered a hearing to take place as early as next month.

27 September 2021

Preference claims are on the rise in many financial centres across the globe and many are linking this to the impact of the global pandemic. Stephen Alexander, a partner at Mourant Ozannes in Jersey, asks whether the impact of the pandemic may be a defence to such preference claims – and if so, how?

06 September 2021