Sentences with phrase «including fiduciary obligations»

Clients using a law firm for document review can rely on, in addition to the benefit of LawPRO insurance coverage, a number of key legal protections including fiduciary obligations and solicitor - client privilege.

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Those cases include decisions addressing the jurisdiction of the SEC, the CFTC and bank regulators over newly created derivatives and other financial instruments; the scope of the definition of a «security»; the availability of private damage actions; extraterritorial application of U.S. securities and futures laws; the standards of liability for fraud and manipulation; electronic trading markets; and the scope of fiduciary obligations of brokerage firms and banks.

These duties include diligence, confidentiality, and fiduciary obligations.

First, while the Court does reject the claim against the real estate lawyer on its merits, the Court acknowledges that the lawyer's fiduciary duties include the obligation to make full disclosure.

Board members and management, for example, have a fiduciary duty to protect the interests of the corporation and its shareholders, and in some cases that duty will include an obligation to investigate indications of serious misconduct at the company.

When a beneficiary would be unreasonably disadvantaged not to be informed of a trust's existence, the trustee's fiduciary duty includes an obligation to disclose the existence of the trust, and where that prevented the beneficiary from making a claim within the prescribed notice period, the duty was breached.

Typical claims litigated include disputes relating to price redetermination provisions, oil and gas royalty obligations, representations and warranties, purchase price adjustments, take or pay provisions, capital contribution obligations, oil and gas well drilling obligations, implied lease covenants, delivery of goods requirements, force majeure provisions, right of first refusal and other preferential rights provisions, trade secret protection, contract termination provisions, indemnity obligations, fiduciary obligation, and corporate and partnership governance issues.

Company, commercial, equity and financial (including civil fraud) disputes, including: business disputes; company and share acquisitions and valuations; shareholder disputes; disputes with and between directors; rights and disputes over corporate assets and opportunities; fiduciary obligations; charges and other security interests; financial transactions; securitisation arrangements; disputed asset disposals; civil and criminal asset recovery claims; general commercial, banking and finance contracts; commercial agency; evidence gathering for claims overseas; joint ventures; and partnerships.

Rachel E. Radspinner concentrates her practice in the administration of trusts and estates, which includes advising fiduciaries regarding their powers and responsibilities, guiding fiduciaries through the intricacies inherent in those tasks, and protecting executors, trustees and conservators from liability by ensuring full compliance with their statutory duties and their obligations under the governing will or trust document.

Such duties include a duty to manage, a fiduciary duty, and an obligation to disclose conflicts of interest.

Real estate broker issues, including claims against and defense of real estate brokers and agents including negligence, fraud / misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, disclosure obligations.

Faisel's experience of business litigation includes high value contractual disputes, directors» personal liability, fiduciary obligations of directors, cases involving illegality, actions against receivers, actions against fiduciaries / agents and cases involving consideration of Quistclose trusts.

Simon's practice encompasses: (i) civil fraud and associated injunctive, monetary and proprietary remedies; (ii) the construction and interpretation of commercial contracts; (iii) partnership and LLP disputes; and (iv) business protection, including the enforcement of post termination restrictive covenants, the enforcement of obligations of confidence, fiduciary obligations, data recovery, and associated injunctive and springboard relief.

new developments in managers» fiduciary obligations (owed to the corporate person, not to shareholders and others) Canadian statute - based minority remedies are being embraced by many Commonwealth countries (including Australia and New Zealand).

In other cases professionals associate in practice by participation in a contractual joint venture which, depending on the agreement and the circumstances, may or may not at law also be a partnership but, in any event, may attract the duties and obligations of partners, including fiduciary duties.

Our experience encompasses a wide range of ERISA claims, including individual life, disability and AD&D benefits, class actions, fiduciary obligations, revenue sharing, retained asset accounts, health plans, stock drop cases, pension funds, severance benefits, plan administration, cost of living adjustments, IRA plans, incentive compensation and annuity contract premiums, among many others.

Usually you don't learn that until you are in the midst of a divorce when you are obliged, as part of that fiduciary obligation, to disclose in writing to your spouse all your assets, all your debts, all your income and all your expenses, including anything held in someone else's name.

Besides developing a title which is broader, more robust and of greater utility for the holders of the title than the Australian version, Delgamuukw also places stringent conditions on interference with Aboriginal title, including the need to justify any interference in terms of the Crown's fiduciary obligations.

Fiduciary duties to a client never include obligations that could expose you to accusations of violating fair housing law.