On 1 July 2025, the Hague Convention of July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the “Convention”) came into force in the UK. The Convention allows civil and commercial...more
On 1 July 2025, the Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (Hague 2019) entered into force in the United Kingdom. Hague 2019 is a multilateral...more
The 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Judgments Convention) is in force for the UK from July 1, 2025....more
UK membership will strengthen cross-border enforcement of English court judgments and reinforce London’s position as a key global centre for dispute resolution....more
In Byju’s Alpha, Inc. v. Oci Limited, 2025 (EWHC 271) (KB), the claimant in Delaware proceedings seeking to recover assets and losses arising from fraudulent misappropriation learned that funds had been transferred to an...more
Being able to enforce a judgment is of crucial importance for businesses: securing a judgment is a pyrrhic victory unless it can be enforced. Here we explore whether concerns about the recognition and enforcement procedure...more
Legal processes involving foreign entities in the Cayman Islands are governed by the civil procedure rules of the jurisdiction where the claim was filed. We strongly recommend that clients familiarize themselves with the...more
On 27 June 2024, the United Kingdom ratified the Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. Considering the complex international legal framework...more
The UK Government has ratified a new multilateral treaty on the enforcement of judgments: the Hague Judgments Convention 2019, which will take effect in the UK from 1 July 2025 and will apply to any judgment of the Courts of...more
In February 2024, the Court of Appeal of England & Wales upheld a September 2023 decision of the Commercial Court in The Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International And Others (No.10), finding that: (1) the President...more
The Situation: On January 12, 2024, the United Kingdom signed up to the Hague Convention of July 2, 2019, on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters ("Hague 2019")....more
The Ministry of Justice has published the UK government’s response to the consultation on joining the Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters,...more
On 23 November 2023, the UK government published its response to its consultation on the Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (Hague...more
German real estate company Adler recently made headlines by successfully implementing a €6bn restructuring by way of a UK Part 26A Restructuring Plan. The Plan involved the subordination of Adler’s existing notes to new money...more
The Cayman Islands, as a British Overseas Territory, is a party, through the United Kingdom, to the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (‘the Hague...more
This year saw the UK grapple with life after Brexit and, along with the rest of the world, the impact of the continued COVID-19 pandemic. As 2021 draws to a close, we round up the key events and developments from the year in...more
When the Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020, several questions remained as to the nature and extent of future judicial cooperation between the United Kingdom and the European Union....more
In a potentially major setback to judicial cooperation across Europe, the European Commission has issued a statement that the UK should not be allowed to join the 2007 Lugano Convention (the “Convention”). In their...more
The uneasy rumblings in the media recently on whether the UK would be welcomed back by the European Union (EU) into the Lugano Convention family were confirmed on 4 May 2021, when the European Commission issued its...more
In a flurry of last-minute negotiations, the EU and the UK agreed on the form of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU, European Atomic Energy Community and the UK on 24 December 2020 ("TCA") to bring about the...more
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement has now been agreed. So what rules will apply to jurisdiction and foreign judgments in the UK from 1 January 2021? Introduction - It has been a long time in the making, but the...more
Historically the UK has always been a popular country to litigate. Contract dispute clauses quite often refer to English law as the applicable law and the London courts as the go-to forum. ...more
The 2019 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters offers certainty in cross-border enforcement of judgments. On 2 July 2019, the Hague Conference on Private...more
On 2 July 2019 the Hague Conference on Private International Law announced the conclusion of a new international convention, the Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial...more
The Brexit date of 29 March 2019 is fast approaching, and there is now a distinct possibility of the UK leaving the EU without agreed terms. Our MoFo Brexit Task Force is coordinating Brexit-related legal analysis across all...more