Jersey: Corporate Governance

In a market shaped by higher financing costs and evolving capital partnerships, real estate sponsors are increasingly focused on structuring flexibility throughout the investment lifecycle. Against this backdrop, Jersey remains a well-established platform for international real estate investment. Its corporate and regulatory framework, including the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 and the Jersey Private Fund (JPF) regime, combines regulatory credibility with practical structuring flexibility.

The Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 has undergone significant amendments to strengthen Jersey's position as a leading international financial centre. These changes introduce enhanced flexibility in share capital management, streamlined corporate governance procedures, and modernised insolvency frameworks, all designed to provide greater clarity and efficiency for companies, investors and advisers operating in this jurisdiction.

For trustees and their advisers, geopolitical risk is no longer an abstract backdrop, it is an active force shaping client behaviour, structuring decisions, and long-term wealth strategies.

At the same time as the latest enhancements to the Jersey Private Funds (JPF) guide becoming effective on the 6 August, the Jersey Financial Services Commission...

Jersey companies are widely used for setting up joint ventures, particularly in a private equity context – further information on why Jersey entities are popular for private equity structures...

The role of the non-executive director is well-understood – they play an important role in corporate governance by providing independent judgement and constructive...

Environmental, social and corporate governance has been high on agendas for the last few years, but 2020 saw focus sky rocket in boardrooms, in the media and amongst legislators and regulators.

Corporate governance and directors' decision-making can affect the tax residency of an entity.

Families come in all shapes and sizes and it follows that there is no one size fits all approach when it comes to establishing an effective governance framework for a single family office....