A broad spectrum of cases in this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly covering sanctions and loan notes, rent default in an aircraft lease, a shareholder derivative action challenging climate risk management and remoteness of losses in a cargo sale chain.
CDW will be taking a short break. The next issue will be available on Tuesday 6 June 2023.
Read the 107th edition of our weekly update on Italian labour law.
Join Watson Farley & Williams for our Maritime Morning on 13 June 2023 in Hamburg.
In this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider a Supreme Court decision on limitation of time in respect of an oil spill, interpretation of an aviation lessor determination clause, the requirements for formation of a lease and whether it was reasonable to believe that sanctions applied.
Read the 106th edition of our weekly update on Italian labour law.
Watson Farley & Williams has advised Mauritius Commercial Bank as agent and lender on an up to US$110m reserve-based lending facility and an up to US$30m working capital facility granted to Afentra Ltd for the acquisition from INA-Industrija d.d. of 4% interests in Block 3/05 and Block 3/05A offshore Angola in the Lower Congo Basin.
In a judgment likely to benefit the whole aviation lessor community, WFW represented Genesis in its successful claims against SpiceJet for non-compliance with redelivery conditions.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we discuss a Court of Appeal decision on a novel issue as to the status of a bill of lading in the hands of a charterer, as well as judgments on interpretation of a covenant not to build, the applicable law for an interest claim and a case that will not get its day in the Supreme Court.
Read the 105th edition of our weekly update on Italian labour law.
This issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly covers two arbitration challenges on fairness and jurisdiction, the interpretation of a live/work covenant in a lease and an unsuccessful invocation of Brexit and the pandemic as force majeure.