Cayman Islands Fall Intersession Program Courses

Week 1:  December 27-30, 2024

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION  (1 credit)

INSTRUCTOR: Liselle Guerin, Tutor, Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine, Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago

This course will introduce students to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration and its application by its jurisdictions.  The course will examine its purpose and effect in the respective jurisdictions; provide an understanding the role of Arbitration in international and domestic commercial transactions; and to appreciate the distinction between the UNCITRAL Model of Law on International Commercial Arbitration and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

 

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Week 2:  January 2-5, 2025

OFFSHORE BUSINESS PLANNING  (1 credit)

INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Appleby, Associate Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law

This course will cover both business law and tax law issues related to business structuring and planning, with a particular focus on offshore business planning.
 

Students will learn to consider, analyze, and apply basic concepts in: (i) choosing the proper form of entity to carry on a business, (ii) forming the entity that will carry on the business, and (iii) financing the entity with debt and equity. This course will address business and tax regimes in the United States and offshore.  This course is structured around a practical business problem divided into various phases—increasing in complexity from establishing and incorporating a new entity, to its financing, and concluding with its sale.