Conyers represented the successful claimants in Claim No. BVIHCM 2017/086 King Bun Limited and Others v. Lau Man Sang, James and Others,

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Justice Building officially opened its doors on April 17, 2007, and with it opened up opportunities for new sources of work for senior and junior lawyers throughout the common law world.

In a new article, Jeremy Brier considers the recent Supreme Court Judgment in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch (UK) Insurance & Others [2021] UKSC 1 on appeal from [2020] EWHC 2448 (Comm).

On 6 September 2023, the Law Commission published its final report on the proposed reform of the Arbitration Act 1996, together with a draft amendment Bill.

Thanks to Scott, Sarah and Francisco for their recent and thoughtful piece on the growing dichotomy between ESG and directors' duties. The article reminds me of the debate handily...

A report by the IFS has found that women's hourly wages are, on average, currently around 20% lower than men, despite previous government manifesto commitments aimed at ‘tackling the gender pay gap'.

On 23 April, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and Kluwer Law International, part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, hosted a panel discussion on the recent US Supreme Court decision in BG Group v. Republic of Argentina.

Nw developments in regards to the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards against states and state entities.

The recent decision of Aikens J in Enterprise Oil Limited v Strand Insurance Company Limited [2006] EWHC 58 Comm ("Enterprise Oil") goes some way to put at rest fears that the decision of Colman J in Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty Co v Bovis Lend Lease Ltd [2005] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 494 ("Lumberman’s") has rendered it impossible for insureds to recover from their liability insurers anything paid under a settlement of insured and non-insured liabilities unle

Mr. Justice Robin Knowles denied Privinvest Group's appeal in the Republic of Mozambique case, requiring a £20 million costs payment to maintain a stay of enforcement.

It is not very often that the worlds of tax and sport coincide. However, when it happened recently, an important Court of Appeal authority concerning the recovery of costs paid to non-solicitor representatives was generated.

The directors’ and officers’ (‘D&O’) liability insurance market has been disappointing for insurers since approximately 2004: rates have been stunted whilst coverage has expanded. Some insurers are even offering policies under which they promise to pay where third-party policy limits are exhausted or compromised.

In the recent decision in Shepherds Investments Ltd v Walters, Etherton J, sitting in the Chancery division, set out a broad new approach to the permissibility of employees taking “preparatory steps” to set up in competition with their employer.

Yesterday (12 June 2025), the Court of Appeal heard an appeal of an order made by Mr Justice Hayden sitting in the High Court of the Family Division in February 2025...

WilmerHale is delighted to announce the publication of the second edition of International Commercial Arbitration (2014 Kluwer Law International) by Gary Born, Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

One consistent message resounded throughout the 3rd Annual BVI Arbitration Conference, which took place in November 2019.

Today the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Monford Management Ltd (the owners of the KIVELI) v Afina Navigation Limited (the owners of the AFINA I) [2026] EWCA Civ 251, the first Court of Appeal...

Following a three-and-a-half-week trial, the High Court has ruled in favour of Mr. Gagliardi in a comprehensive 154-page judgment in Robert Gagliardi v Evolution Capital Management LLC [2025] EWHC 3214 (Comm). Mr. Justice Calver found that Mr. Gagliardi was contractually entitled to a $5.385 million discretionary bonus for his hugely profitable trading in 2021, which Evolution Capital Management LLC (“ECM”) had unlawfully failed to pay. The Court dismissed ECM’s counterclaim in its entirety.

Does a reassured owe to his reinsurer any duty in selecting the risks to be written and reinsured?

It has been some four years since the first article on Missing Trader Intra- Community (MTIC) VAT fraud appeared in The Tax Journal (Issue 690, 28 April 2003).