Dentons | Australia, Canada, China, etc. | 9 Feb 2017
In the wake of the 2016 elections, we now await the decision as to who will be the "antitrust guard" at the top of the US Department…
McCarthy Tétrault LLP | Canada, United Kingdom | 27 May 2016
You’re a celebrity and had a threesome. Your partner wasn’t one of them. You want the affair to remain private. You go to a court in England where…
McCarthy Tétrault LLP | Canada, United Kingdom | 4 Sep 2013
The England and Wales High Court (Chancery Division) recently granted an interlocutory injunction restraining former employees from, among…
Heenan Blaikie LLP | Canada, United Kingdom | 12 Aug 2013
While the Rolodex may be a thing of the past, its functional successor lives on in social networking sites such as LinkedIn. It's no surprise then…
Gowling WLG | Canada, United Kingdom | 13 Oct 2011
Servier developed perindopril erbumine (“perindopril”) which is a successful long lasting ACE inhibitor sold under the trade-mark COVERSYL.
Fasken | Canada, United Kingdom | 14 Apr 2011
The award of £17.5 million damages to Apotex under a cross-undertaking in damages given by Servier has been set aside by the High Court on the basis of public policy and the rule of law that no action can arise from an illegal or immoral act – here the manufacture of a generic medicine that infringed a valid foreign patent.
RPC | Canada, United Kingdom | 11 Apr 2011
Two recent cases, one English and the other Canadian, concern arbitration and the granting of Mareva injunctions/freezing orders.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP | Canada, United Kingdom, USA | 21 Jul 2008
Recent pronouncements by a court in the United States, as well as regulatory activity in the United Kingdom, have highlighted the issue of whether rules requiring disclosure of beneficial interests in securities of public companies should extend to economic interests in securities held through derivative contracts such as cash-settled total-return equity swaps (TRSs) and similar financial......
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP | Canada, United Kingdom | 4 Apr 2008
A recent English decision highlights the danger that even a well-intentioned financial institution may face if it fails to strictly obey a Mareva injunction order freezing the accounts of one of its clients.