Legal Issues in Offshore Financial Services
- Publisher:
- Ian Randle Publishers Ltd
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-21
- Authors:
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Rose-Marie B Antoine
(PhD, is an Attorney-at-Law and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus as well as Programme Director of the Faculty?s LL.M. Programme) - ISBN:
- 978-976-8167-82-8
Description:
Over the last ten years, increasing world trade and globalisation have led to increased international financing and the growth of offshore financial centres. This growth has also been reflected in the Caribbean by an expansion of the financial services industry which has become one of the larger income earning sectors in some Caribbean countries. In this publication, academics, professionals and representatives of the regulatory and government sectors from the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, address the types of offshore products and functions, the offshore tax function, the legal issues involved in using the offshore trust, and the regulation of the offshore sector. The key areas of International Business vehicles, the Captive Insurance Industry the use of offshore trusts in international estate planning and the regulation and control of money laundering are also analysed. This publication represents an edited and updated collection of papers delivered at the 1998 workshop on the subject Legal Issues in Offshore International Financial Services. Contributors include: Trevor Carmichael, QC, Vernese Brathwaite, Marshall Langer, Stephen Gray Bruce Zagaris, Lynettte Eastmond, David Brownbill, Rose-Marie B. Antoine, Shazeeda Ali and Barry Rider.
Preliminary sections
Section I - Preliminary Commentary
Section II - Types of Offshore Products and Functions
Section III - The Offshore Tax Function