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- The only book with a focus on offshore trusts
- Covers all aspects of offshore financial law, including tax, for a comprehensive understanding of the issues
- Topic based and comparative approach provides detailed analysis of case law, legislation, and treaties from both an offshore and onshore perspective
- Tackles complex areas such as conflicts of laws
New to this edition
- New chapter on the US 'Offshore' Trusts such as the Nevada and Alaska Trusts
- New chapter on the Shari'a Trust in offshore financial law
- New chapter on the civil law foundation trust
- Coverage of the EU Savings Directive and developments in Jersey law (ie the No 5 Amendment)
- Analysis of the UK Tax amnesty, private trust companies, tax information agreements, and signed exchange of information agreements
- More detailed discussion of Latin American and European use of the offshore trust
The discipline of offshore financial law has developed substantially since the first edition of this book was published. The second edition updates the reader with developments in case law and legislation and also covers a more extensive range of offshore jurisdictions including new coverage of Switzerland, Dubai, Hong Kong, Alaska, Nevada, Singapore, and Liechtenstein.
For ease of reference the new edition includes an introductory chapter which gives a summary of the legislative infrastructure in the various jurisdictions. This provides a quick guide to where to find answers on offshore financial law matters. Recognizing the importance of Islamic finance there is now a chapter on the Shari'a Trust in offshore financial law. Other new chapters focus on US 'Offshore' Trusts such as the Nevada and Alaska Trusts and the Foundation trust, a vehicle used in civil jurisdictions.
Considering the impact of the G20 and more recent OECD discussions on confidentiality, disclosure, and tax issues, this new edition brings the reader up to date with the changing regulatory landscape concerning the offshore sector. All practitioners and scholars interested in offshore financial law will find this text to be an essential reference source on the law and practice in this sector.
Readership: Trusts, tax, and offshore finance specialists worldwide; practitioners, judges, academics, post-graduate students, bankers, government regulators, and international financial regulators (OECD/ World Bank/ IMF).
PART I - FUNDAMENTALS OF THE OFFSHORE TRUST
1: Introduction - The Place of the Offshore Trust in the Offshore Financial Centre
2: Anatomy and Functions of the Offshore Trust
3: Special Trust Vehicles
4: The Role and Powers of the Offshore Protector
5: Questions of Legitimacy and the Offshore Trust
6: Acceptance of the Offshore Trust
PART II - CHALLENGES TO THE OFFSHORE TRUST AND COMMON PITFALLS TO AVOID
7: Disclosure and Confidentiality Obligations
8: The Offshore Trust as a Sham
9: The Law on Fraudulent Conveyances and the Offshore Trust
10: Duties of Trustees in Managing Offshore Trusts
11: Liability of Third Parties to the Trust
12: Liability of Directors of Offshore Corporate Trustees
PART III - THE OFFSHORE TAX FUNCTION
13: Responses to the Tax Function of Offshore Trusts
14: Overview of Statutory Tax Countermeasures against Offshore Trusts
15: Judicial Engineering of the Tax Function of Offshore Trusts
16: Bilateral Routes to the Tax Function and the Question of Sovereignty
17: Duties of Offshore Trustees in Relation to Tax
PART IV - THE CONFLICT OF LAWS AND THE OFFSHORE TRUST
18: Transplanting the Common Law Trust - Conflict of Laws and the Acceptance of the Offshore Trust
19: Jurisdiction over the Offshore Trust
20: The Proper Law of the Offshore Trust
21: Recognition of the Offshore Trust in Civil Law Countries
22: Rights to Succession - Forced Heirs and the Offshore Trust
23: Capacity to Create the Offshore Trust and Initial Transfers of Assets
24: The Non-Enforcement of Foreign Judgments under Offshore Trust Law
Rose-Marie Antoine, Professor of Labor Law and Offshore Financial Law, The University of the West Indies
Professor Rose-Marie Antoine is the Professor of Labor Law and Offshore Financial Law at the University of the West Indies. A Cambridge and Oxford scholar, Professor Antoine lectures at Case-Western Reserve USA, consults for governments and international organizations, and drafted the Labor Code of Saint Lucia and the CARICOM Harmonization of Labor Law Report, the blueprint for CARICOM labour reform.
Review(s) from previous edition
"This book will be of considerable interest to a wide range of legal academics and practitioners...Finance lawyers will find this book to be an authoritative source of information on offshore trusts and a convenient tool for comparing the competing versions of offshore trusts on offer. - JIBLR
