Three years ago, as the outside world shut down, the legal profession faced an extraordinary challenge – staying connected to colleagues and clients with no in-person contact. Lockdown saw a huge spike in social media use, and while personal use was a given for most lawyers, few had yet been convinced by its professional value, …
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While 2022 began with renewed hope as the world began to bounce back after two unprecedented years of upheaval, it took just a few short weeks for that bubble to burst, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shaking the markets and raising the spectre of a global recession. However, law firms throughout the Cayman Islands (Cayman), …
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If market commentators thought the world was ready to get back on an even keel after two years of global pandemic, events of recent months have very much put paid to that notion. But while law firms and their clients still have much volatility to contend with, the 2022 financial results season has once again …
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Much like the rest of the world, the Nordic market couldn’t escape the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. However, the virus seemingly kept the Nordics in its periphery, while the rest of Europe felt the brunt of the impact. Average GDP across Norway, Sweden and Denmark in 2020 fell by roughly 3% (the wider EU …
In what will undoubtedly be remembered as an unpredictable year in more ways than one, offshore firms across the globe leveraged their resilience and diverse practice offerings to weather the storm that 2020 brought. The US-China trade wars and the uncertainty around the EU/UK divorce gave way to the devastation of the global coronavirus pandemic, …
Despite varying governmental approaches to the coronavirus response across the Nordics, there is a consistent optimism throughout the region, both with regards to what 2021 holds and also the overarching impact of the virus on the markets in the long term. ‘Largely, and perhaps surprisingly, the feeling is that it has been business as usual,’ …
The Caribbean’s offshore financial centres have faced their fair share of challenges in recent years thanks to the increased international scrutiny of the tax haven environments, the impact of falling oil prices and the business interruption caused by the seemingly endless cycle of hurricanes, which sees the region bear the brunt of the ever-pervasive impact …
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