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Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
Carey Olsen

Standing room only: a “person aggrieved” under s.273 of the BVI Insolvency Act 2003

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In a judgment handed down on 15 April 2025, Stevanovich v Matthew Richardson and another (as Joint Liquidators of Barrington Capital Group Ltd (in Liquidation) [2025] UKPC 18, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the...more

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The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal will consider whether a company's shareholders can bring claims for misrepresentation against...

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In an unprecedented turn of events, two recent proceedings in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands considered the same complex legal issues just one week apart. Both In the Matter of HQP Corporation Limited (assigned to...more

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Frozen Crypto Assets and a Dissolved Company: The EC Court of Appeal’s Application of Convoy Collateral

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In its seminal decision in Broad Idea International v Convoy Collateral [2021] UKPC 24 (“Convoy”), a case which had its genesis in the BVI Commercial Court, the Privy Council delivered a ground-breaking exposition of the law...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

“Business Judgment Rule” Applies to HOAs

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California’s common law “business judgment rule,” as described by the courts, protects from court intervention “those management decisions which are made by directors in good faith in what the directors believe is the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York Courts Continue to Enforce Broad General Releases, Even When Claims are Unforeseeable at the Time of Contract Execution

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In Chadha v. Wahedna, 2021 NY Slip Op. 50509(U) (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty. 2021), Justice Ostrager of the New York County Commercial Division, dismissed Plaintiff Nilsa Chadha’s (“Plaintiff”) claims in their entirety due to...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

INSIGHT: Fifth Circuit ‘Home Cooking’ Ruling Harms Future U.S. Trade Partners

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A Fifth Circuit ruling that failed to enforce a roughly $123 million Moroccan judgment against haircare and liquor tycoon John Paul DeJoria harms trade relations between the U.S. and foreign nations. The authors, attorneys at...more

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Court Holds That A Plaintiff Can Raise A Conspiracy To Breach Fiduciary Duty Claim Even Where The Party Who Owed Fiduciary Duties...

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In Klinek v. Luxeyard, Inc., a company sued its majority shareholder in a suit for breach of fiduciary duty arising from a pump-and-dump scheme and later settled that claim. No. 14-17-00899-C, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 9421 (Tex....more

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