Jake Hardy

Mar 20, 2024 | lexology.com | Jake Hardy |Tom Hibbert

There was a wave of negative press about commercial real estate funds during the course of 2023. The higher interest rate environment and the pandemic’s economic and social legacy has stressed the sector. This was reflected in suspensions of redemptions by funds including BlackRock UK Property Fund and Blackstone’s (US) Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, and the closure of the M&G Property Portfolio fund.

Dec 11, 2023 | lexology.com | Sinead Westaway |Jake Hardy

FactsDecisionCommentIn the latest of a flurry of decisions on anti-suit injunctions in support of arbitrations, the High Court has granted an anti-suit injunction and anti-anti-suit injunction against defendants who had commenced proceedings in Russia pursuant to article 248 of the Russian Commercial Procedure Code (RCPC).

Oct 30, 2023 | lexology.com | Jake Hardy |Tim Potts

FactsDecisionCommentIn an important judgment in Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd & Anor v Ruhan & Anor(1) the Court of Appeal established that, where a fiduciary commits two closely connected breaches of duty, one of which gives rise to a profit and one of which causes a loss, a claim for equitable compensation against either the fiduciary or a dishonest assistant cannot be determined solely by reference to the loss and will involve an exercise in setting-off the profit against the loss.

Aug 30, 2023 | dx.doi.org | Jake Hardy |Sai Shruthi Murali |Calum Gordon |Paul Hume

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Apr 17, 2023 | lexology.com | Jake Hardy |Olivia Dhein

RPC | Litigation - United Kingdom Introduction Facts Decision Comment Introduction The Supreme Court brought the preliminary skirmishes between Ukraine and Law Debenture Trust Corporation (acting on behalf of Russia as the bondholder) to a culmination, by deciding that a defence of duress must go to trial in The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc v Ukraine.(1) This is a defence advanced by Ukraine in relation to non-payment under Eurobonds it had issued and sold to Russia in the period prior...