The ‘Danann’ case stands for the now well-recognized principle that a specific merger clause—one encompassing the representations that are the subject matter of the fraud claim—will likely bar a plaintiff’s fraud claim that looks outside the agreement. Recent Commercial Division decisions applying this ‘Danann’ standard are instructive as to how specific that clause must be.

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