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Court of Appeal summaries (December 6- 11)

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Canada, Employment & Labor, Family, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insolvency & Restructuring, Legal Practice, Litigation, Non-profit Organizations, Private Client & Offshore Services, Real Estate, Blaney McMurtry LLP
Supreme Court offers some financiers protection, creates new risks for others, in its decision on Sun Indalex, LLC v. United Steelworkers

The Supreme Court of Canada, in a decision that has implications for borrowers and lenders alike, particularly where pension funds are involved, has raised some new hurdles for the country’s banks and their business customers and, at the same time, has bolstered protection for lenders of last resort who finance insolvent companies.

The court’s decision in Sun Indalex Finance, LLC v. United Steelworkers, issued earlier this year, addresses critical questions in insolvency law regarding pension funds and DIP financing. 

Canada, Ontario, Banking, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Blaney McMurtry LLP, Debtor, Liquidation, Debtor in possession, United Steelworkers, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
Non-disclosure of corporate re-organisation and breach of warranty (again)

By a judgment handed down on 26 October 2010 in Sugar Hut Group Ltd & Ors v Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) Plc & Ors [2010] EWHC 2636 (Comm), Mr Justice Burton in the Commercial Court held that insurers were entitled to avoid, for a material non-disclosure of a corporate re-organisation, a policy which could otherwise have covered losses arising from a fire at the premises of the insureds.

United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Insurance, Litigation, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Shareholder, Breach of contract, Reinsurance, Public limited company, Non-disclosure agreement, Warranty, Underwriting, Subsidiary, AXA, High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Commercial Court (England and Wales)