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Over 300 persons turned up for the black-tie BVI High School Fundraiser Ball in Hong Kong at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel on November 28, 2017. The event, to raise funds toward the rebuilding of the Elmore Stoutt High School, was organised by a committee of Hong Kong-based financial services industry practitioners.

The BVI has a long-standing reputation in this industry for excellence, dating back to the publication of the Mutual Funds Act in 1996, but we have never had the statistics to back up every practitioners’ firm belief in the jurisdiction that we have one of the globe’s largest and most flexible fund jurisdictions. Until now.

“Offshore financial centres like the British Virgin Islands complement midshore jurisdictions like Hong Kong and Singapore in facilitating globalization.”

BVI Finance member firm , Ogier, has advised the initial public offering (IPO) of UK chilled foods supplier Bakkavor Group PLC on the London Stock Exchange.

BVI Finance member firm Harneys has advised BMR Energy, a Virgin Group investment that develops, owns and operates clean energy projects in the Caribbean and Latin America, on its acquisition of Sibo S.A., a Guatemalan solar energy group. Assets of Sibo include a 7 MWp Green Solar array in Guatemala.

The following is a statement on the status of the BVI's international business and finance centre, post Irma, by Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE.