Misick and Stanbrook

As a British Overseas Territory with no direct taxes, the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has been an attractive domicile for trust establishment by high-net-worth individuals and their advisers for many years. However, in the recent past, with the Government’s focus firmly on developing TCI’s enormously successful luxury tourism industry, the updating of TCI’s non-regulatory legislation in the field of financial services had been a little neglected. The Government has now turned its attention to modernising TCI’s financial services offering, and as a first step has introduced a new trusts statute, the Trusts Ordinance 2016...

Aside from a passing reference to data protection in the Electronic Transactions Ordinance (see below), TCI has no data protection statute.  However, a number of other areas of local law are applicable or, in the context of the advice sought, ought to be considered in relation to data protection, confidentiality and privacy matters.  In that respect:- a. Data protection, privacy and confidentiality at common law TCI is a British Overseas Territory and is a common law jurisdiction...

Owen Foley and Karen Willis of Misick & Stanbrook act for the Desarrollos Hotel Group in facilitating its signing of a development agreement with the Turks and Caicos Islands Government for the development of a USD $224 million Ritz Carlton Hotel in Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos Islands. This development is a much welcomed boost to the luxury tourism market in the Islands with development planned to commence in November 2015. Misick & Stanbrook is the leading law firm in the Turks & Caicos Islands, with specialism in hotel development and tourism, corporate acquisitions and structuring and real estate...

The well-known legal directory for law firms around the world, Chambers & Partners, has ranked Misick & Stanbrook in Band 1 (the top tier) for General Business Law in the Turks and Caicos Islands. They also highly recommend Ariel Misick QC, who founded the firm. The firm takes pride in this global recognition and continues striving for excellence within the jurisdiction...