Bermuda Law Blog

02 Oct 2015

Agathe Holowatinc
In the USA, “Companies and marketing firms have been gathering information about customers and potential customers for years, collecting their names and addresses, tracking credit card purchases, and asking them to fill out questionnaires, so they can offer discounts and send catalogues. But today we are giving up more and more private information online without knowing that it's being harvested and personalized and sold to lots of different people...” ..."It's not about what we know we're sharing, it's about what we don't know is being collected and sold about us." (CBS News, March 9 2014)
15:54 / Bermuda Case Law & Legislation
24 Sep 2015

Agathe Holowatinc
MJM’s Jessica Kemmenoe has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in the Fall issue of The Bermudian magazine. The feature is called Rising Stars: Young, ambitious and quickly working their way to the top, meet this year's crop of twenty-somethings on the fast track. A rising star is a young person (under 30) who is doing an outstanding job in their industry. They have youth and energy on their side, but this individual is also smart and dedicated and has the qualities that make you sure they are going to make it to the top one day!
21:50 / Litigation & Dispute Resolution / MJM Barristers & Attorneys
22 Sep 2015

Jessica Kemmenoe
Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. (“BPHL”), the parent company for the local daily newspaper The Royal Gazette, commenced proceedings against the Registrar of the Supreme Court (the “Registrar”) following the Registrar’s refusal of BPHL’s application to obtain copies of Affidavits and Exhibits filed in a case pending in the Supreme Court. The case involved a dispute between Allied Development Partners and the Government of Bermuda with reference to the Hamilton Waterfront. BPHL sought to challenge the accepted legal view that documentation being used in ongoing legal proceedings is not open to public inspection, even if the parties to the proceedings do not oppose access to the documentation.
20:38 / Bermuda Case Law & Legislation / Litigation & Dispute Resolution
28 Aug 2015

Brian Holdipp
The vast majority of partnerships on the Bermuda registry are said to be private or closed-end funds. Hailed as an important part of the government’s efforts to achieve growth in the asset management area, amendments have been made to partnership and company legislation to enhance the flexibility and efficiency of Bermuda exempted and limited partnerships and to boost the desirability to use Bermuda as a jurisdiction to establish private equity funds and asset-holding structures.
20:25 / Bermuda Case Law & Legislation / Company & Commercial Law
20 Aug 2015

Cynthia Williams
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (“BMA”) held an informational session on the 24th of July, 2014 regarding the licensing of a CSP. Ms. Tamara Anfossi of the BMA announced that the CSP regime commencement date is pending amendments to the Exchange Control Act 1972 (“Foreign Exchange”). It is anticipated that the amendments to Foreign Exchange will be passed by Parliament prior to January, 2016.
19:40 / Bermuda Case Law & Legislation / Company & Commercial Law
20 Aug 2015

Jeremy Leese
Bermuda is firmly established as the offshore jurisdiction of choice in aviation finance; however, one missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle within this sector has been the non-implementation in Bermuda of what is known as the Cape Town Convention. The Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (together the “Convention”) came into force on 1 March, 2006. The Convention facilitates aircraft finance transactions by providing a regularised electronic international registry of “international interests” over moveable property (the “International Registry”), such International Registry being recognised in all Contracting States (being countries which have implemented the Convention). The Convention also sets out a framework for dispute management as well as remedies and relief available to creditors.
19:36 / Company & Commercial Law
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