As financial institutions and corporations continue to struggle due to the global recession and restricted access to credit our restructuring and insolvency practice is helping our clients to acclimatize to changing market conditions.

Lanx Lancis Attorneys have advised on complex, multi-jurisdictional restructurings and have a extensive range of business advisory and crisis management skills to steer clients through circumstances involving financially troubled companies.

Lanx Lancis offers clients a full range of services in the restructuring and insolvency arena, including:

• Cross-border restructuring
• Out-of-court restructuring
• Multinational insolvencies and workouts
• Strategies for investors to gain control of troubled companies

Through our Corporate and Commercial practice area, we advise across the following areas:

• Acquisitions and Disposals
• Takeovers/Tender Offers
• Mergers and Consolidations
• IPOs and Secondary Share Offerings
• Joint Ventures
• Private Equity
• Corporate Reorganisations and Restructurings
• Schemes of Arrangement
• Regulatory Matters

We have experience of advising on a broad range of industry sectors, commercial opportunities and investment-related transactions, and bring that knowledge to bear on each engagement.

The regulatory environment has become progressively elaborate and complicated. The challenges to your business are unceasingly burdensome. Ensuring you comprehend the legal, compliance and risk implications of regulation is critical as the consequences of a breach can be devastating to both you in your personal capacity and your business.

Our team combines individuals with legal, accounting, commercial and compliance expertise and have an in depth understanding of relevant legislation, regulation and practice.. We provide straightforward, sensible explanations of strategic and operational legal compliance issues that could affect your business.

We advise clients from a varied client base with a focus on the financial services industry.

Our services include:

• General regulatory and compliance advice and support
• Anti-money laundering (AML) advice
• Dealing with regulatory investigations and enforcement actions
• Development and enhancement of policies and procedures
• Due diligence
• Staff and manager training
• Guidance on corporate governance issues.

We advise on all aspects of banking, including leverage and acquisition financing, bi- lateral, syndicated and structured loans and financing transactions documented through ISDA and other market standard documentation.

We advise on security arrangements entered into by British Virgin Islands vehicles or concerning BVI company shares or other BVI law governed assets.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in advising on a broad range of finance transactions, including:

• Loan agreements and security documents
• Syndicated (secured) loan transactions
• Off-balance-sheet structures
• Lease agreements
• Asset securitisation structures
• Joint venture structures
• Operating and finance lease structures

At Lanx Lancis we routinely advise on all aspects of residential and commercial property law to ensure our clients fully comprehend their rights, obligations and liabilities relating to property investment or ownership in the British Virgin Islands. We provide all-inclusive service from start to finish.

Our real estate team frequently advises developers, individuals, investors and banks in relation to property related issues and are experienced across the full range of property types: residential and business premises, investment properties, industrial properties and hotels.

Our real estate legal services

• • Commercial Real Estate (including sale and purchase of commercial premises, commercial leases and developments)
  • Residential Real Estate (including sale and purchase of residential homes, subdivision, residential leases and developments)

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• rafting and negotiating all forms of construction documentation (including standard form building contracts)
• Advising on inter-relationship between construction documentation and property documentation

Our real estate experience covers both domestic and Caribbean projects for a diverse range of clients including property developers and institutions.

Our team has a specialised background in providing guidance to employers, trustees, administrators and other pension professionals with a extensive range of pension issues.

Our focus is on providing unparalleled service and our range of expertise and technical support ensures that our clients receive straightforward, sensible and commercially focused guidance and advice.

We possess a comprehensive grasp of relevant legislation, regulation and practice, as well as the latest developments in BVI pensions laws. Additionally, our team keeps abreast of the best practice and changes as it relates to pensions in the United Kingdom and beyond, which allows us to offer the best advice to our clients.

Lanx Lancis’ Private Client & Trusts team provides trust services to high net worth individuals, families and trust companies. We advise on all aspects of trust law, including the establishment, restructuring and winding up of private, charitable, purpose and commercial trusts.

For individuals, families and their advisers, we:

• Offer counsel on international estate planning needs
• Help with difficult decisions when administering trusts for beneficiaries

For businesses, we:

• Offer advice on the formation of commercial trusts (special purpose trusts) in connection with leasing and structured finance transactions

The administration of a family member’s personal estate can be a daunting process. With a keen understanding of the needs of private individuals and their advisers at what can be a difficult time, we focus on providing a direct and efficient service.

Our experienced Wills and Probate team can assist with the preparation of Wills, estate planning, obtaining grants of letters of administration/probate from the courts and all aspects of administration of estates.