Gretchen Tucker, Counsel & Head of Regulatory and Governance at BeesMont Law provides practical insights for Bermuda organisations grappling with the now fully in force Personal Information Protection Act 2016
Sharon A. Beesley and Bourn Collier consider the use of Bermuda’s segregated account structures for representing digital assets including stablecoins and off-chain or “real world assets” (RWA)
Counsel and Head of Regulatory and Governance, Gretchen Tucker, authored the Bermuda Data Protection Overview (August 2024 edition) originally published on the DataGuidance OneTrust platform for essential privacy and regulatory research and policy.
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Senior Corporate Counsel, Bourn Collier, recently explored part of Bermuda’s history of wartime censorship and codebreaking with modern similarities to Bermuda’s digital asset industry and its hosting of encryption and cryptocurrencies technologies.
The Cybersecurity Act 2024 to usher in a new era for the protection of Bermuda’s critical national information infrastructure
The advantage of a partnership is that it is versatile enough to handle a wide scope of business activities and this Guide provides an overview of partnerships generally and the more commonly used exempted limited partnerships.
Sharon A. Beesley and Bourn Collier have authored the Bermuda chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Public M&A, 2023 edition. This focused international publication covers M&A transactional requirements and procedures governing publicly listed companies, covering such areas as: types of business combinations, applicable legislation, filings and public disclosure requirements, substantial shareholding regulations, duties of directors and controlling shareholders, shareholder rights of approval and appraisal, and hostile transactions, among other key topics.
In this article, Sharon A. Beesley and Bourn Collier consider the rise of a new business structure involving decentralised forms of business conducted on blockchains or distributed ledgers, referred to as decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs). Bermuda is a leading jurisdiction for digital asset (or crypto-asset) business and the authors consider key challenges and like characterisations of the new structures.
Bourn Collier and Sharon Beesley consider recent guidance published by the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), in respect of risk factors and disclosures for blockchain-based instruments