This article was first published in the December 2017 edition of Trusts & Trustees: Volume 23, Issue 10. Please click here to view the publication's website.

In this article Ray Davern and Alex Way dispel some myths and highlight important points about testamentary dispositions of shares in companies incorporated or registered in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.

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