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Hamilton acted for Fidelix Holding Oy

Hamilton act­ed for Fidelix Holding Oy, a provider of build­ing man­age­ment sys­tems and re­lat­ed build­ing au­toma­tion prod­ucts, in re­la­tion to its’ ac­qui­si­tion of EcoGuard AB, the mar­ket lead­ing Swedish provider Read more

Banking and Finance Publications

The Insurance and Reinsurance Review | Swedish chapter

The Insurance and Reinsurance Review, pub­lished by Law Business Research, are guides to de­vel­op­ments in var­i­ous le­gal prac­tice ar­eas in key ju­ris­dic­tions. Hamilton has con­trib­uted to the sev­enth edi­tion of Read more

Dispute Resolution News

Arbitral award set aside by the Swedish Supreme Court following an arbitral tribunal’s deviation from its own procedural order

On 30 April 2019, the Swedish Supreme Court ren­dered its rul­ing in the CicloMulsion case which has gained some at­ten­tion in the Swedish ar­bi­tra­tion mar­ket fol­low­ing the Court of Appeal’s Read more

Hamilton Perspectives Newsletter

New prospectus regime

On 21 July 2019, a new prospec­tus regime comes in­to play in Sweden and the rest of the EU when the new prospec­tus reg­u­la­tion (2017/1129) en­ters in­to full force. At Read more

Hamilton Perspectives Newsletter

European Court of Justice defines liability in damages for successor companies

In a re­cent judg­ment the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has shed light on an ac­quir­er’s po­ten­tial li­a­bil­i­ty for dam­ages re­sult­ing from an ac­quired ac­tiv­i­ty’s pre­vi­ous in­fringe­ments of com­pe­ti­tion law. Read more

Dispute Resolution News

Challenge of arbitral award dismissed notwithstanding procedural error by the tribunal

On 20 March 2019, the Swedish Supreme Court dis­missed a chal­lenge of an ar­bi­tral award de­spite de­ter­min­ing that the tri­bunal had com­mit­ted a pro­ce­dur­al er­ror. The award in­volves a num­ber Read more

Banking and Finance News

Loan syndication: European Commission publishes report on impact on competition

The European Commission has re­cent­ly pub­lished a re­port on the loan syn­di­ca­tion mar­ket and its im­pact on com­pe­ti­tion in cred­it mar­kets. The re­port iden­ti­fies a num­ber of com­pe­ti­tion law is­sues Read more

Dispute Resolution News

Swedish Court of Appeal dismisses Poland’s challenge of arbitral awards and applies the principles of the Achmea ruling

Svea Court of Appeal ren­dered an award on 22 February 2019 re­gard­ing chal­lenge of ar­bi­tral awards be­tween the Republic of Poland and an in­vest­ment com­pa­ny from Luxembourg. The case be­fore Read more

Hamilton Perspectives Publications

The Supreme Court rules on the interpretation of a professional liability insurance

Professional li­a­bil­i­ty poli­cies of­ten ex­clude fines, liq­ui­dat­ed dam­ages and puni­tive dam­ages. In a re­cent rul­ing, the Swedish Supreme Court held that liq­ui­dat­ed dam­ages sus­tained by an in­sured’s counter par­ty were Read more

Hamilton Perspectives Publications

Recent court cases regarding an employee’s duty of loyalty to the employer

An em­ploy­ee is bound by a gen­er­al du­ty of loy­al­ty to the em­ploy­er by virtue of the em­ploy­ment agree­ment. Generally, the du­ty of loy­al­ty en­tails that an em­ploy­ee is oblig­ed Read more