With a Supreme Court decision on limitation, comments from the Court of Appeal on inconsistencies between specially agreed terms and standard terms, as well as a decision on decommissioning of oil and gas assets, the latest Commercial Disputes Weekly has plenty to pique your interest.
The pandemic has outlined some of the current inequalities within the hotel and hospitality industry – namely the risk and reward balance between investors and owners – and the need for transparency and experience.
Francesca has over 14 years’ experience in the real estate sector, advising domestic and international clients on a broad range of transactions, including acquisitions, disposals and asset management.
Victoria is an expert negotiator with over a decade’s experience working with individual employees and senior executives at international corporations.
The Italian Ministry introduced several noise-related operating restrictions at Rome-Ciampino airport and a drastic reduction in its airport slots, mostly affecting Ryanair.
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly find out what the Court of Appeal had to say about damages in cases involving fraudulent misrepresentations, the requirements of notice provisions and the impact of delay in delivering judgment, as well as whether a journalist was entitled to a document mentioned in a judgment six years ago.
Alex Slade was a trainee at the firm from 1999 to 2001. He is now General Counsel of Arena Racing Company (ARC) which owns and operates 16 racecourses and four greyhound tracks in the UK as well as several hotels and golf courses.
Monrawee Ampolpittayanant (Lynn) is Head of Public Policy, Government and Philanthropy, Southeast Asia, at Twitter, the social networking service, with more than 353 million monthly active users. Lynn was an associate in the Bangkok office dispute resolution team from 2011 to 2013.
Dr Malte von Seht was an associate in the Hamburg office from 2012 to 2020. He is now Legal Counsel at Siemens Gamesa, a global technology leader in the renewable energy industry focusing on the development, manufacture, installation and maintenance of wind turbines.
Steven Burkill is Head of the firm’s Asia Dispute Resolution Group and Head of WFW’s Bangkok office, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.