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Sixth Circuit reverses dismissal of shareholder action

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

In Kepley v. Lanz, the Sixth Circuit yesterday reversed the dismissal for lack of standing of an action brought by former shareholders of a Kentucky

Guidance on ‘Wrotham Park' damages for breach of contract

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 28 2010

In Pell Frischmann Engineering Limited v (1) Bow Valley (2) P T Bakrie, the Privy Council has given guidance on how ‘Wrotham Park’ damages should be assessed

Tax & Real Estate Spain

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • June 21 2012

Royal Decree-Law 182012, dated 11 May, concerning the writedown and sale of the financial sector’s real estate assets, implements the following new tax regulations

Protecting the attorney-client privilege for in-house counsel

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

The interplay between attorney-client privilege and in-house counsel communications has been on many people's minds since the Middle District of

One contract; three laws

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 28 2012

In the recent case of Sulamérica Cia Nacional de Seguros, S.A. and ors. v Enesa Engenharia, S.A. and ors. 2012 EWCA Civ 638, the English Court of Appeal has provided useful clarification regarding a tricky, but not uncommon, issue arising in relation to international contracts: namely, the interrelationship between the different systems of law governing different parts of a contract and its effect on the parties chosen method(s) for resolving disputes

Trade secrets in the board room: director or observer?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 18 2009

When an investor takes a significant equity position in a company, the investor may be able to appoint one or more representatives to the company’s board of directors

Economic torts: inducing breach of contract, causing loss by unlawful means, interference with contracts, conversion

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 18 2007

This case was one of three heard together by the House of Lords which all principally concerned claims in tort for economic loss

Gratuitous payments

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 5 2012

It is pretty unusual these days for a receipt of any kind not to be chargeable to tax one way or another and it is gratifying to read the case of Collins v HMRC TC 2088 where the Tribunal considered the implications of a receipt of $ 2 million

Changes to UK late payments regime

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 2 2013

On 16 March 2013, new late payment legislation came into force in the UK. The changes to the existing late payment regime are generally minor. One

The new German Limited Liability Company Act

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 6 2009

The new "Act aimed at modernizing the Limited Liability Company Act (GmbHG) and combating abuses" came into force on November 1, 2008 and modernizes the old GmbH law in the following key areas