In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly find out the English’s court’s view on whether a “material adverse effect” clause could cover the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the Court of Appeal’s decision in a case raising important issues on misuse of confidential information and the tort of conspiracy to injure by unlawful means.
Felicity Jones and Alan Polivnick have once again collaborated for a feature article in prominent hospitality trade publication Hotels Magazine.
In this article we discuss how the ever-growing importance of sale and leaseback transactions as an alternative to financing ships by way of loan, makes it both timely and welcome that BIMCO has produced a standardised term sheet.
The programme aims to to build supply chain resilience to address disruption and decarbonise the wider global supply chain with a focus on shipping.
In a podcast with Passel, Rippan Vig, Director of Client & Strategic Development at WFW explores how Marketing, Business Development and Communications teams make a shift, and position themselves as trusted advisors within their firms.
The loan is secured over three large container ships operated by Maersk A/S, a subsidiary of AP Moller Maersk.
The firm has won the ‘Restructuring Deal of the Year 2019’ award for its advice to Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA regarding the restructuring of NAS’ €250m Norwegian bond transaction.
This article examines a recent case in which the Commercial Court confirmed that English rules on legal professional privilege extend to protect communications with in-house lawyers irrespective of their location or country of qualification.
In the fifth of a seven-part series on the application of US sanctions to the shipping community, this article explores US sanctions on Russia/Ukraine.
WFW advised on matters of Marshall Islands, Liberian, Thai and maritime law and also, through our formal law alliance in Singapore with Wong Tan & Molly Lim LLC, Singapore law.
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, discover the final word from the Supreme Court on the law applicable to arbitration agreements, as well as how the rule on reflective loss is being applied and what happened in a case where WFW acted for the successful claimant lenders when allegations of undue influence were made.
This article examines the decision in Premier Engineering (Lincoln) Ltd v MW High Tech Projects UK Ltd arising out of the dispute-laden development of an energy-from-waste plant in Hull.
