by Leela | 2020-09-28 | Industry News
In Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd [2020] UKSC 36, the Supreme Court held that a restrictive covenant given by a landlord of a shopping centre to an anchor tenant did not engage the common law doctrine of restraint of trade. The...
by Leela | 2020-09-25 | Industry News
On August 18, 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a letter (the ‘Letter”) addressed to the European Commission (“EC”) on its recommendation for the upcoming review of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”). Many...
by Leela | 2020-08-28 | Industry News
In CFH Clearing Limited v. Merrill Lynch International [2019] EWHC 963 (Comm), the High Court has dealt with the issue of whether or not a bank was obliged to reprice or cancel foreign exchange spot trades entered into at a time of severe market disruption, in...
by Leela | 2020-08-25 | Industry News
SUMMARY The recent shift from office base time to working from home and enforced social distancing measures in the current coronavirus pandemic (“Covid-19”) has raised a number of issues for signing and executing key documents, particularly when a witness is required...
by Leela | 2020-08-20 | Industry News
In Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja [2020] UKSC 31, the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal and fundamentally restricted what has to-date been referred to as the principle against the recovery of reflective loss, effectively overturning a string of previous Court of...
