Guernsey: Corporate Governance

The Token Issuance Trust offers a trust-based alternative to traditional corporate structures for Web3 protocols and DAOs, combining founder control with independent fiduciary oversight. This innovative framework enables protocols to hold assets, manage contracts, and support on-chain operations while preserving decentralisation principles. How can established trust law principles be adapted to meet the operational and governance requirements of decentralised token ecosystems?

Alongside established trust structures, the BVI Private Trust Company (PTC) has become an increasingly valuable governance solution, providing families with a dedicated corporate trustee for estate, tax and succession planning.

In the first article of this series, Middle East family office succession planning: avoiding offshore probate freezes, we explored how even well-designed ownership structures can be exposed if succession planning focuses solely on legal arrangements rather than operational continuity.

Guernsey's trust and private wealth industry is underpinned by approximately 150 regulated trust and company service providers, employing over 1,600 people.

Guernsey has for some time been the domicile of choice for non-UK companies listing on the London Stock Exchange...

An effective corporate governance framework plays a vital role in ensuring the longevity and resilience of private client structures.

It has been a long-established principle of UK tax law that a Guernsey company, as any other non-UK company, will be treated as being UK tax resident for a particular financial year if the "central management and ...

A quick flick through the pages of the States of Guernsey Revenue website shows the full extent of the international tax, regulatory and automatic exchange of information (AEOI)...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (the GFSC) has published an amended version of the Guernsey Finance Sector Code of Corporate Governance (the Code) which asks boards of companies