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Delaware Chancery Court Enforces Capital Calls Based on Subscription Documents and Contract Terms in a Partnership Agreement

The Fund’s partnership agreement capped capital calls at each limited partner’s “Contingent Subscription”

Australian courts adopt a context-based approach to contractual notice disputes

While precision remains important when drafting contractual notices, contractors and developers seeking timely and efficient delivery of projects should welcome this shift.

Australian courts adopt a context-based approach to contractual notice disputes

While precision remains important when drafting contractual notices, contractors and developers seeking timely and efficient delivery of projects should welcome this shift.

Mediation becoming inescapable as South African courts crack down

Courts have indicated that mediation is a compulsory procedural step, and failure to comply can result in matters being struck from the roll, even where parties jointly wish to proceed directly to trial.

Credit Suisse AT1 Bonds: What the Swiss Court decision means for investors

Against this backdrop, treaty-based arbitration claims brought by foreign investors have taken on increased importance.

DIFC judgment confirms scope of interim relief

The court’s approach suggests that freezing orders may be granted even where the DIFC courts lack jurisdiction over the underlying substantive dispute

Court of Appeal provides clarity for lenders amid ‘mortgage prisoner’ concerns

This issue became widespread among borrowers who had taken out mortgages with Northern Rock before the financial crisis.

Privy Council confirms just and equitable winding up of Cayman Islands exempted limited partnerships

The Privy Council accordingly dismissed the appeal.

Dentons Lee wins landmark appellate victory in Asan Baebang Mobile District case

The appellate ruling further reaffirmed legal stability for recruitment report acceptance in local housing cooperative projects.

Psychiatric injury, bad faith, and boardroom conduct

The court in this case considered that CM's cause of action had accrued prior to dismissal and therefore he was not within the Johnson exclusion zone.

The Diarra ruling: how the transfer market and the balance of power between clubs and players are changing

FIFA promptly amended its regulations

Certainty in arbitration: High thresholds for setting aside awards in Singapore

The decision reinforces several practical points for parties arbitrating in Singapore

Singapore confirms position on admissibility v jurisdiction in multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses

The High Court held that the question of compliance with pre-arbitration steps goes to the admissibility of the claim, not to the tribunal’s jurisdiction, bringing Singapore in line with recent decisions in the UK and Hong Kong.

Retrospective relief for trustees

A similar approach was previously adopted by the Grand Court in the context of an application for Beddoe relief.

A tour of judicial decision-making: The "Easter Egg" in O'Driscoll v Clayton (Junior) [2025] EWHC 2607 (Ch)

Judges are required to give reasons for their decisions, setting out the main points and explaining how they reached their conclusions.

French Supreme Court shifts position on jurisdiction clauses

These clauses are a common feature in financial agreements and typically allow lenders to sue borrowers in multiple jurisdictions but restrict borrowers to litigate in one designated court.

Second Circuit Poised to Rule on What Law Applies to Consumer Wire Fraud

In an appeal being closely watched by the financial services industry, the Second Circuit is now set to decide, as a matter of first impression, whether the EFTA applies in the context of wire transfer fraud.

Dentons Secures Dismissal on All Charges Against David Rawson and Recycled Earth in Environmental Case

In plain terms, the environmental case against Mr. Rawson and Recycled Earth is over, and they have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing.

English courts continue to set tone on WFO enforcement

The court unanimously upheld an earlier decision by the Supreme Court in a similar case that no such defence is available.

NSW case confirms when a de facto director can be held liable for insolvent trading

Central to the decision was whether Anthony Azizi was also a de facto director of Trinco.

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