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
In 2002 the Supreme Court of Canada, in Bank of Montreal v Dynex Petroleum Ltd, 2002 SCC 7 (Dynex) affirmed that gross overriding royalty interests (GOR) could constitute interest in land provided the parties so intended and that intention was sufficiently evidenced in an agreement.
Canada, Ontario, Energy & Natural Resources, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Supreme Court of Canada, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Ontario Superior Court of Justice