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BVI Beneficial Ownership Regime – key exemptions – equivalent international standards

The BVI has significantly enhanced its beneficial ownership regime (“BO Regime”) in 2025, including expanding and clarifying certain exemptions that are available following changes that came into effect on 1 July 2025. This series of blog posts details key exemptions under the BO Regime, with this post looking at equivalent international standards.

Equivalent international standards

Under the BO Regime BVI companies and limited partnerships must collect, maintain and (subject to certain exemptions) file up-to-date beneficial ownership information with the BVI Registrar of Corporate Affairs. Legal entities subject to equivalent international disclosure and transparency standards are exempt from the filing obligation. Such equivalent standards could include, for example, debt listings on certain recognised exchanges that apply the same disclosure standards as for equity listings.

More information on other exemptions, key filings and updates to the BO Regime is available in our client update.

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