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In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider the English court’s jurisdiction to enforce foreign judgments, two challenges to freezing injunctions and whether the pandemic was a catastrophe for insurance purposes.
A trio of company law cases in this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, considering breach of fiduciary duty, after the event insurance and the evidential burden of establishing a trust.
The US$15bn Simandou project, the largest greenfield integrated mine and infrastructure investment in Africa to date, on which Watson Farley & Williams has been advising the Republic of Guinea, has now completed, including the required Guinean and Chinese regulatory approval.
