The English courts continue to hand down judgments on issues as diverse as the enforcement of foreign judgments, the use of electronic bundles during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the approach to specific disclosure applications. Check out the latest Commercial Disputes Weekly to find out what’s been happening.
In a cautionary decision for parties involved in OFTO transactions, a High Court judgment confirms the importance of precise drafting within SPAs and other OFTO transaction documents to ensure that the parties’ intentions regarding risk allocation are reflected accurately.
The Marshall Islands has adopted a regulation permitting shareholders to participate remotely in annual shareholder meetings.
In this article we consider the English Court of Appeal’s decision in Lakatamia Shipping Company Limited v Morimoto on applications for freezing orders and demonstrating a risk of dissipation.
As the construction industry prepares itself for the gradual return to the “new normal”, this note considers the lessons learnt from the last two months.
US persons, including corporations, who own or control more than 10% of a foreign entity must make a filing with the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Nasdaq announces new delisting standards and temporary relief for listed companies with depressed trading prices.
This note summarises the key temporary changes to the regulatory framework for companies listed in the UK that have been announced to date in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and provides suggestions on how such companies might mitigate the disruption from COVID-19 including the use of virtual AGMs.
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly find out when you can rely on without prejudice statements to rebut allegations of fraud, when the court will order a payment on account of costs and a salutary lesson on the risks of refusing to mediate.
We advised Santander on three separate Swedish ECA-backed loans used to fund the purchase of Scania AB buses by concessionaires operating under the TransMilenio public transportation system in Bogotá, Colombia.
This article summarises the key provisions of the long-awaited Decision 13 and discusses its implications for the Vietnamese solar energy market.
The English Court of Appeal has provided much needed clarification on the interplay between the underlying law governing international agreements, the proper law of an arbitration clause in such agreements, and the parties’ choice of the seat of arbitration.
