Even within a recovering rental market, the impact of insolvency can be severe. In particular, the power to disclaim a lease as onerous property can have significant implications for not only parties ...

Apart from specific requirements imposed to minimise the chance of loss, the insurer may also insist on more general obligations, such as a clause requiring the insured to take reasonable care to ...

Singapore law comprises primarily statutory law as well as common law. The primary legislation governing the provision of insurance and reinsurance business is the Insurance Act (Cap 142) (the ...

Dr Eduardo Mayora A and Juan Pablo Gramajo of Mayora & Mayora discuss Guatemala’s legal system and the opportunities available there for foreign investors. Guatemala’s legal system creates an open ...

A warranty is a contractual assurance from a seller to a buyer. It is a subsidiary or collateral provision to the main purpose of the agreement: the sale itself. A breach of warranty claim is an ...

In most non-insurance contracts, the party suffering from the other’s breach is obliged to mitigate its loss. It might be argued that an insured is subject to this doctrine in respect of an insured ...

Outsourcing is a key strategic decision for businesses, enabling more efficient operation through a focus on core areas, while leveraging the capabilities and scale of specialist service providers to ...

merger by acquisition, where an existing transferee company acquires all the assets and liabilities of one or more transferor companies; merger by absorption, between an existing transferee company ...

Rob Booth, one of the leading lights of the in-house legal community, will be stepping away from his position as general counsel and company secretary at The Crown Estate to become the company’s new ...

Many contract negotiations reach a crisis point at which one party requires a commitment to do something the other will not give. Endeavours covenants are frequently adopted as a compromise, being ...

In retrospect, the year 2019 will likely be seen as a turning point in the combat of climate change. With Friday for Future as pace maker, for the first time in history, there is a globally-aligned ...

As a result of demographic changes and a new surge in wealth, the Middle East has shown an increasing interest in mitigating risk through insurance. Despite concerns as to whether insurance accords ...