We have identified four judgments from 2022 which are significant for those in the private equity sector and may have particular relevance for sponsors, shareholders, management teams and/or appointees to boards. In this overview we summarise the key points and some of the practical implications.
The decisions we address are:
United Kingdom, Banking, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mishcon de Reya LLP, Private equity, Barclays, UK Supreme Court
Two years on from PCP Capital Partners LLP and another v. Barclays Bank Plc [2020] EWHC 1393 (Comm), the High Court has declined to extend the scope of what constitutes a waiver of legal professional privilege. The case of Henderson & Jones Limited v.
United Kingdom, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Legal Practice, Litigation, Mishcon de Reya LLP, Barclays