Wills & Trusts Law Reports | March 2015 #147W and the defendant embarked on a project with the aim of acquiring a substantial interest in an English company, TSE, which started with the acquisition of 125,000 TSE shares in 2002 (the first tranche). In 2003 they attempted to make additional acquisitions of TSE shares, such attempts involving three of W’s companies, including the plaintiff. The overall scheme was that funds would be provided by one company, Assanzon, for the acquisition of shares for another company, Momentum, which were held for its beneficial owners which were principally the plaintiff company, Libertarian. The fu...
A recent Canadian case confirms the UK position on the scope of fiduciary obligations, as Suzana Popovic-Montag and Sarah Halsted report ‘Most significantly, the court in Galambos v Perez conceptually analysed the nature of fiduciary obligations and concluded that it is not the case that all power-dependency relationships are fiduciary in nature.’In Galambos v Perez …
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