Guide to Cayman Trust Law published
The offshore law firm, Maples and Calder, has announced that Drafting Cayman Islands Trusts had been published. The Draft is co-authored by a Cayman Islands attorney-at-law based in the firm’s London office and James Kessler QC, a leading English Chancery barrister and UK tax adviser, Tony Pursall.
Drafting Cayman Islands Trusts is the 1st book of its kind, which takes a modern well-explained approach to legal drafting of Cayman Islands law.
The Cayman Islands is one of the main jurisdictions for establishing offshore trusts, and, accordingly, the drafting of effective Cayman trust instruments is a complex task. The draft provides a detailed explanation of the terms and related drafting issues. It should become a valuable resource for practitioners and administrators alike.
The launch of the book in the UK will be hold on January 18, 2007.
To conclude, it is worth mentioning that Maples and Calder has one of the largest global offshore trust practices in the world with 7 leading specialist trust lawyers.