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What M&A trends will transform the 2024 insurance landscape?
It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
United States | Publication | January 2024
This column focuses on the first ground for seeking reformation, mutual mistake and addresses recent Commercial Division decisions that have struggled with that issue. A mutual mistake exists where the contractual language does not reflect the parties’ meeting of the minds in some material respect. To prevail on a reformation claim based on mutual mistake, the party advancing the claim must prove a mutual mistake by both parties that resulted in either (1) an omission of an agreed upon provision or (2) the addition of a provision not agreed upon. Slutzky v. Gallati, 97 A.D.2d 561, 561 (3d Dep’t 1983).
In this update, Thomas J. Hall and Judith A. Archer discuss the first ground for seeking reformation, mutual mistake and addresses recent Commercial Division decisions that have struggled with that issue.
Read the full New York Law Journal article, "Commercial division update: Reformation of contract based on mutual mistake."
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It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
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The ongoing conflicts and further geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, coupled with upcoming elections in a number of key countries including the US and the UK, make 2024 challenging to predict what impact this will have on the insurance sector.
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On 6 September 2022, the European Commission (EC) prohibited Illumina’s acquisition of Grail, bringing to an end the administrative stage of a legal saga that has attracted interest beyond competition law specialists.
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