Changes at a global regulatory level affecting offshore jurisdictions have been matched by the growth in new types of work for the firms that operate there, as Anthony Harrington reports

The offshore world has been going through an extraordinary period. Serious initiatives on the part of major governments to combat tax evasion by wealthy individuals have come alongside major pan-national initiatives from the European Union and the OECD to crack down on multinationals shifting profits from high-tax to low-tax regimes.