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Our banking specialists have many years’ expertise of advising Isle of Man-regulated and international banking groups regarding a range of Isle of Man legal and regulatory issues, including liaising with regulators and the preparation and review of customer documentation.

The Isle of Man is a growing international business hub and we advise upon, negotiate and draft a wide range of commercial agreements for our clients. We have particular expertise in providing and advising on commercial terms for outsourcing service providers, online card payment businesses, e-gamers and online sports bet operators, and companies in the telecoms, IT, space and satellite sectors.

We provide a full range of market-leading Isle of Man corporate legal services, with our clients ranging from local start-up businesses to international groups and global financial institutions. The Isle of Man team have wide expertise in the establishment, sale, merger, acquisition and complex restructuring of all types of Isle of Man companies, partnerships and funds, including regulated and listed vehicles. We also work closely with a wide network of international legal and tax advisers, including leading City law firms and accountancy practices.

Our Isle of Man litigation team specialises in advising on commercial and trust disputes, enforcement and insolvency proceedings, and professional negligence claims. Our focus is on resolving claims as quickly and painlessly and in the most straightforward and cost-effective way possible. If litigation is inevitable, our advice will ensure that you have the most effective representation available.

Keystone Law Isle of Man is uniquely positioned and structured to be able to meet the demands of its e-gaming clients, whether they are fast-moving start-ups with multiple jurisdictions or globally established organisations.

For our start-up e-gaming clients, we are able to fulfil an ‘outsourced General Counsel’ role that enables us to provide general legal support and advice to the founders or investors in a responsive but cost-effective manner.

Larger, multi-jurisdictional e-gaming clients are able to take advantage of our teams of advisers where needed to provide specific legal advice to the in-house legal teams, such as capital markets advice or multi-jurisdictional intellectual property rights advice.

Our team has the ability to call on over 350 experienced lawyers that are based in the Isle of Man and UK to provide the legal advice that our clients may need, irrespective of where they are in their business cycle. Keystone is able to provide a full range of English, EU and Isle of Man legal advice and regulatory support to its growing list of start-up and globally established e-gaming clients without having to engage different law firms.

Keystone’s Isle of Man employment specialists boast the experience and skills our clients need when dealing with any kind of employment-related issue. We ensure that companies have the correct documentation in place to reduce risk and improve employee efficiency, and we advise on issues from redundancy to disciplinaries and grievances, including defending organisations in employment tribunals. We also successfully help individuals on their own employment rights, regularly scrutinising contracts and giving guidance on tax implications. We also offer proactive solutions on any form of employment dispute, all the way to the prosecution of claims in employment tribunals.

The Keystone Pensions team collectively has 40 years’ experience of advising on occupational and personal pension schemes, both domestic and international. It has assisted on the drafting of Isle of Man pension and tax legislation and sits on IoM government technical committees. The team acts for the largest defined benefit and defined contribution schemes on the Island (including in respect of the Isle of Man Government’s public sector schemes) and advises on all aspects of pensions law including corporate transactions, Ombudsman claims, insured buy-ins and buy-outs, and more generally on the establishment, maintenance, restructuring, and insolvency of pension schemes.

We advise banks, lenders (including alternative lenders and challenger banks) and borrowers in respect of the financing of Isle of Man entities (companies, partnerships and trusts) including listed vehicles, fund structures, trading companies, and asset-holding SPVs holding a broad range of assets. We have particular expertise in respect of real estate finance, including the preparation and review of loan, security and hedging documentation.

The Keystone Isle of Man Trusts team collectively has 48 years’ experience and expertise in dealing with large and complex contentious trust cases, and most of the work undertaken in this sector is multi-jurisdictional. We also provide assistance with non-contentious trust issues such as the creation of different types of trust and foundation structures with a wide range of purposes, and the drafting and review of trust deeds and instruments.

• Assignment and licensing of intellectual property rights
• Banking and finance
• Branding issues
• Company formation and organisation
• Corporate finance
• Data protection and GDPR
• Dispute resolution
• Joint venture agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Patents
• Protection of confidential information
• Trade marks and branding

• Agency and distribution
• Anti-bribery compliance
• Collaboration agreements
• Commission and introduction agreements
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
• Consultancy agreements
• Data protection and privacy
• General contract queries
• Head of terms/memoranda of understanding
• Manufacture, purchase and supply
• Option agreements
• Reseller agreements
• Terms of business, terms of trade, terms and conditions

• Acquisitions and disposals
• Asset management
• Commercial and residential development
• Corporate occupiers
• Health and safety
• Joint ventures and profit-sharing agreements
• Landlord and tenant
• Option and pre-emption agreements
• Overage clawback agreements
• Property finance and secured lending
• Regeneration projects
• SDLT

• Building and engineering contracts, including the JCT, NEC, FIDIC and IChemE suites and bespoke contracts
• Development agreements and related documents for funders, developers and employers
• Domestic and cross-border contracts
• Arbitration, adjudication and mediation
• Collateral warranties, bonds, vesting certificates, guarantees and ancillary documentation
• Insolvency related to construction
• Consultant appointments
• Company terms and conditions of contracting
• Down-stream sub-contracts and purchase orders

• Angel investment
• Banking and finance
• Capital restructuring and reorganisations
• Corporate finance
• Company incorporation and organisation
• Director’s duties
• Insolvency and restructuring
• Joint ventures
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Partnership agreements
• Shareholder agreements
• Venture capital

• Agency disputes
• Arbitration
• Commercial
• Construction
• Debt collection
• Defamation
• Director’s duties
• Franchising disputes
• Fraud and breach of fiduciary duties
• Health and safety disputes
• Insurance claims
• Intellectual property
• International arbitration
• Mediation
• Partnerships and LLPs
• Professional negligence (non-medical)
• Property
• Sport
• Taxation

• Assignment of intellectual property rights
• Audits of intellectual property rights
• Clinical trial agreements
• Copyright and database rights
• Design rights
• Licensing of intellectual property rights
• Ownership of intellectual property rights
• Patents
• Protection of confidential information
• Trade marks and branding
• Settlement agreements: intellectual property disputes
• Software agreements

• Corporate acquisitions and disposals
• Tax-efficient structures
• Share schemes
• Enterprise Investment Scheme
• Tax covenants and indemnities
• Vehicles for property development and investment
• Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and VAT on property
• Restructuring of business interests including demergers and incorporations
• Succession planning