By Emma
Voisin Law is helping cultivate a project for budding gardeners and their parents and carers. The local law firm has funded the entire cost of hiring a minibus and a driver to take fourteen families and the team from Brighter Futures out each week so they can get digging, planting…
By Emma
What is a Protector? Protectors are a common feature of discretionary trusts settled under Jersey law, however, until recently there was very limited local jurisprudence addressing the nature and performance of their powers and duties. Interestingly, there is no statutory definition of the word ‘Protector’ under the laws of Jersey,…
By Emma
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (the “Act”) introduces a new register, the Register of Overseas Entities, and requires “overseas entities” owning land in the UK to register the identity of their beneficial owners at UK Companies House and to keep that register updated. The Act received Royal…
By Emma
Voisin Law has advised the local founders of LV Care Group, a leading care group provider in Jersey, on its sale of a majority shareholding in LV Group Limited to Emera, with the management team retaining a significant ownership stake in the LV Care Group going forward. The transaction also…
By Emma
Voisin Law has advised Raag Hotels Limited, which owns the Point A Hotel business comprising of 10 properties in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin on the Jersey law aspects of the sale of its shareholding to Tristan Capital Partners in a £420,000,000 transaction, with Queensway (as the hotel operator, asset manager and development partner),…
By Emma
Conversations about estate planning are usually fairly unpopular around the dinner table however, it is really important to be discussing these things with your loved ones particularly in respect of your digital legacy now that we live more of our lives online. According to the iCloud terms of service, a…
