Understanding Your Legal Rights in Everyday Life
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Why Estate Planning Is Essential for Every Family
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Criminal Defense Strategies Every Client Should Know
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Navigating Divorce and Family Law with Confidence
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Collaborative Divorces
The Collaborative Law Alliance of Bermuda of which our Honor Desmond-Tetlow is Vice Chairman, is now allied with a collaboratively minded financial advisor. The Alliance is confident that this addition, together with the existence of collaborative counsellors (child experts/psychologists), will encourage the continued use of the collaborative law process in Bermuda. Those who practice collaborative […]
Updates to Maternity and Paternity Benefits
Adjusting to parenthood can be overwhelming, for both parents. Thankfully, such more needed legislative changes to improve parenting benefits are on the horizon. The Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport announced recently that “the consolidation and modernization of the labour legislation […] has been ongoing for some five years”. After “extensive consultation with key […]
Shipping Regulations amended to attract new business
The Government of Bermuda recently passed into law the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (the “Registration Regulations”) and tabled the proposed Merchant Shipping (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2019 (the “Fees Regulations”). The Registration Regulations expand the list of eligible countries qualified to be owners of ships registered on the Bermuda Ship […]
New Additions To The MJM Team
Leading law firm, MJM Limited, is pleased to announce several new additions to the firm. MJM has seen quite a few changes in 2019, including the appointment of Jennifer Haworth and Jeremy Leese as Directors of the firm, as well as Adenike Carmichael joining the Dispute Resolution Team as Client Relationship Manager. The firm now […]
Economic Substance Update – Guidance Notes and Beyond
At the end of June 2019, the Government of Bermuda issued draft economic substance guidance notes. The aim of the guidance notes is to assist in determining whether entities are in scope of the requirements of the economic substance legislation and regulations, how to satisfy such requirements, and provide guidance as to how the Registrar […]
Tax Residency Change to Economic Substance Act
The Economic Substance Act 2018 (the “Economic Substance Act”) was established in direct response to concerns raised by the Council of the European Union concerning the absence of economic substance requirements for entities conducting business in and through Bermuda. Since the introduction of the Economic Substance Act, given the number of Bermuda entities which are […]
Economic Substance Update
Bermuda was removed from the European Union (“EU”) list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions at the 17th May, 2019 meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (“ECOFIN”). Bermuda’s commitment to implement tax good governance was confirmed in ECOFIN’s official statement, which recognised that Bermuda has “adopted additional amendments to its economic substance regulations on 4 […]
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