Confidentiality in Offshore Financial Law »

Rose-Marie Antoine was born in Trinidad and Tobago and graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1986. She later studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar having obtained her professional qualifications at Cambridge in 1988. She has worked as a legal consultant to several governments and regional and international organizations, including the ILO and the World Bank. Dr Antoine is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

Confidentiality in Offshore Finance Law is a comprehensive legal analysis of an essential, but virtually unexplored and often controversial topic. It is a holistic and complex subject which brings together several orthodox areas of law in innovative and constantly evolving ways. It embraces the law on trusts, taxation and tax planning, banking, international crime, mutual funds and company law. Offshore confidentiality impacts on all of these and is uniquely different from onshore models. In this book its intricate parameters and limits are assessed by reviewing case law, legislation, treaties and public policy. Dr Antoine also highlights the tensions between onshore and offshore legal philosophies.
Not only will the book be an essential point of reference to legal practitioners, it should also be of interest to financial regulators, human rights activists, academics, students, and law enforcers.