Last year, the Kentucky Court of Appeals held that liens and security interests in assets of governmental entities are entitled to priority.

Many mass-market vehicles include sensors and cameras to assist motorists with parking and backing up, and even lane change assist and smart cruise control.

Despite several attempts by the Swedish Competition Authority, Swedish courts have not yet prohibited any mergers, although a number of concentrations have been subject to commitments.

När en organisation avser att använda någon typ av ny teknik som kan leda till en hög risk för individers rättigheter kan en konsekvensbedömning, data protection impact assessment (DPIA), enligt artikel 35 GDPR behöva göras.

In In re Delphi Financial Group Shareholder Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery recently declined to preliminarily enjoin a pending merger despite its finding that plaintiff-stockholders were "reasonably likely to be able to demonstrate at trial that in negotiating for disparate consideration and only agreeing to support the merger if he received it," a controlling stockholder "violated duties to the stockholders."

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has announced two new conditional clearance decisions under the country's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) merger control system, meaning five deals have now been subject to conditional approval or outright prohibition since the law commenced.

On June 2, 2011, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced conditional approval of the merger between Russian potash producers Silvinit and Uralkali. Since the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") entered into force in 2008, MOFCOM has published only eight decisions, as it makes public only prohibition decisions and decisions imposing remedies.

During 2011 there have been several interesting developments as regards dawn raids and legal privilege.

•December 15, 2016 – Athabasca Oil Corporation entered into agreements with Statoil ASA and its wholly owned subsidiary Statoil Canada Ltd. to acquire their Canadian thermal oil assets...

Residential rental companies Front Yard Residential and Amherst Residential mutually agreed to terminate their planned $2.3 billion merger.

"Top hat plans" have many attractive features, but a new court decision is a reminder that top hat plan participants have limited protections under ERISA ...

Senseonics has announced it raised $20 million of PE financing.

This past year has offered some interesting cases in Sweden regarding abuse of a dominant position.

November 29, 2016 – Raging River Exploration Inc. closed a Viking consolidation transaction. The company acquired approximately 620 boe per day...