Articles and Features

Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), Deputy Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry – explores why conditions are right to consider re-domiciling or co-domiciling funds in Guernsey. »

By Petrina Smyth and Noeleen Ruddy (pictured) – As a leading jurisdiction for the establishment of investment funds and structured finance vehicles, Ireland has seen commodity funds established for many years using regulated Qualifying Investor Funds, ranging from funds investing in precious metals to agricultural crop funds. »

Peakside Capital, a specialist European real estate private equity firm, has launched 80 Hammersmith Road, its 41,700 sq ft Grade A office redevelopment in Hammersmith, West London.   »

F&C Commercial Property Trust (FCPT), a closed-ended property investment company with total assets of around GBP1bn, has successfully raised GBP15m in an issue of new shares. »

The Blackstone Group has reported Economic Net Income (ENI) of USD1.389 billion for the full year 2011, slightly lower than USD1.418 billion ENI for the full year 2010. »

UK Commercial Property Trust Limited (LSE: UKCM), the largest UK focused commercial property trust, has released its Interim Management Statement for the three months to 31 December 2011 and unaudited quarterly Net Asset Value (NAV) as at 31 December 2011. »

Jersey’s Royal Court has agreed to request that four Jersey companies, which were the key borrowing entities involved in the planned redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station site, be put into administration by the High Court of England and Wales. »

The Directors of Redefine International, the income-focused diversified property company, have announced that a total of 12,750,000 Ordinary Shares of 7.2 pence each have been placed with Redefine Properties International Limited (RIN) at a price of 37.0 pence per share – a 2% discount to the closing mid-price on 31 January 2012 of 37.75p – of which 939,000 Ordinary Shares have been sold out of treasury. »

Peter Niven, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry – explains why the jurisdiction continues to prove attractive to MENA managers… »

The European Commission is prohibiting the planned merger between Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext because, based on its definition of the market for derivatives trading, it considers the merger to be inadmissible under competition law. »