Corporate governance reform has been on the radar of the Cayman Islands for several years.  The landmark 2011 decision by the Financial Services Division of the Cayman Islands Grand Court, Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Limited v. Stefan Peterson and Hans Ekstrom, held that a fund’s directors had willfully neglected their duties to supervise a fund’s operations when they acted as little more than figureheads or rubber stamps of manager actions.  See “The Cayman Islands Weavering Decision One Year Later: Reflections by Weavering’s Counsel and One of the Joint Liquidators,” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 5, No. 36 (Sep. 20, 2012).  In January 2013, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) issued proposed rule amendments and proposed revised governance standards – spelled out in the revised Statement of Guidance on fund Governance (Governance SOG) – for hedge funds and their directors.  See “Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Introduces Proposals to Apply Revised Governance Standards to CIMA-Regulated Hedge Funds and Require Registration and Licensing of Fund Directors,” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Jan. 24, 2013).  In December 2013, CIMA adopted the final Governance SOG.  Cayman directors’ duties have traditionally been derived primarily from common law principles of care, skill and diligence, and good faith, loyalty and other fiduciary duties.  The CIMA governance standards mentioned above were one effort to codify some of those principles with respect to directors of CIMA-regulated entities.  In another step towards governance reform, the Cayman Islands Law Reform Commission recently released an “Issues Paper” exploring the duties of Cayman directors and asking whether there would be any improvement in corporate governance if those duties were enumerated and codified in Cayman statutes.  This article summarizes the key points from the Issues Paper.