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A costly warranty

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2013

Making a tort misrepresentation claim on the basis of warranties given in a share purchase agreement can be one way of sidestepping the contract

No duty of good faith in English law contracts: the Court of Appeal overturns the High Court and reasserts the traditional position under English law

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 26 2013

Is there any implied overriding duty of good faith as between parties to a contract under English law? For many years the answer seemed clear: No

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court expands consumer zip code privacy protection in Tyler v. Michaels Stores

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

In a closely watched case with a somewhat unexpected result, the highest Massachusetts court decided in Tyler v. Michaels Stores that zip codes are

VTB Capital -v- Nutritek (UK Supreme Court): a convenient veil drawn over a difficult question

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 11 2013

On 6 February 2013 the UK Supreme Court refused to allow the doctrine of 'piercing the corporate veil' to be used to bind a shareholder to a contract

Shareholder derivative litigation: a primer for insurance coverage counsel

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

The recent spate of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged dividends and regulatory investigations has led to a much higher frequency of shareholder derivative

A lot of hot air?

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 25 2012

British engineering group Dyson has today filed a claim against Bosch for alleged misuse of confidential information

New York adopts Delaware’s “Tooley Test” for distinguishing between derivative and direct actions

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 13 2012

The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, issued a ruling this past week in which it adopted a “clear approach” for determining the difference between direct and derivative claims

The English High Court finds no compelling reason to displace a UAE jurisdiction clause

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 12 2012

In Aizkir Navigation Inc v Al Wathba National Insurance 2011 EWHC 3940 (Comm), the High Court considered a principle of contractual construction and held that a clause stating that claims "be settled in accordance with English Law and practice shall be so settled in Abu Dhabi (UAE)" amounted to an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) and there was no overwhelming reason to displace that jurisdiction clause

Piercing corporate veil recognised by English law - but limited

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 22 2012

The "corporate veil" between the separate personality of a company and its shareholders can be pierced, but not so as to make them all party to a contract to which only one had in fact agreed

PLUS D&O Symposium 2012 -- Day 1 first panel: latest trends in securities litigation and Dodd-Frank

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2012

The first panel of the 2012 PLUS D&O Symposium discussed some of the latest trends in securities litigation and opined on potential future developments which may impact the D&O industry

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