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Case studies
- Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022
- Fit-out and refurbishment
- How to build business resilience in a complex and uncertain world
- Identifying high potential leaders at Balfour Beatty
- Implementing a business leadership programme at IMI
- Implementing a leadership development programme for Brit Insurance
- Land Remediation Relief
- Land assembly and compulsory purchase for Stoke-on-Trent University Quarter
- London Borough of Brent: Alperton and Wembley Housing Zones
- Managing change at RBS
- Modernising an old insurance company pension arrangement
- Securing benefits for members on an industry-wide pension scheme
- Succession planning & development at ARM
- Tax depreciation analysis of a data centre in France
- The importance of courage and flexibility for business resilience
- The importance of leadership for business resilience
- The importance of written agreements
- Wear and tear allowances on an office purchase
- What do our Corporate clients think?
- Winding up a pension scheme
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Deal alerts
- Acquisition of Accura Group
- Acquisition of Heatseam Limited and placing and re-admission of Likewise Group plc to the TISE
- Acquisition of Spargonet Consulting
- Acquisition of Vincent Brothers Limited t/a North Shore Holiday Centre
- Advising Betfred on the partial sale of the Tote to Alizeti Capital
- Advising Carbon Fibre Preforms on investment by Growthdeck and Midven Limited
- Advising Franchise Brands on its AIM admission
- Advising Inspired Energy Plc on an acquisition and share placing
- Advising Just Childcare on nursery group acquisition
- Advising Just Childcare on nursery group acquisition and £12m funding
- Advising LDC on investment in British Waterways Marinas Limited
- Advising Langley Holdings on its acquisition of Marelli Motori
- Advising Maven on two MBOs in quick succession
- Advising Peppermint Technology on its provision of facilities
- Advising SMH Fleet Solutions on LDC investment
- Advising Stuart Turner on GAH Heating trading assets acquisition
- Advising Texas-based Asure Software Inc. on the acquisition of OccupEye
- Advising TickX on £3 million investment by BGF Ventures
- Advising YFM Equity Partners on investment in Ncam Technologies
- Advising on fund set-up and first investment for Praetura Ventures
- Advising on the MBO of Hammonds Furniture
- Advising on the sale of CET to management
- Advising on £74.5m management buy-out of Menzies Distribution
- Bridgeway Consulting acquires 50% stake in AM-UAS
- Business Control Solutions (BCS) Group takeover
- CET Group: Navigating a complex sale process
- City Football Group in Joint Venture with Goals Soccer Centres plc
- City Gaming Limited purchase of Family Leisure Holdings Limited
- Coaching Manual: Investment to support international expansion
- Connection Capital: Securing next stage of growth for Mode
- Double acquisition by Inspired Energy
- Euro Car Parts and Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia invest in UK heavy truck parts company
- Foresight Group invests £1.9m into design and manufacturing company
- Foresight Nottingham Fund LP invests in Retail Assist
- Franchise Brands Plc acquires Metro Rod Limited
- GI Solutions – Acquisition creates £80m turnover marketing services group
- Gateley Corporate team advises on firm’s acquisition of Kiddy & Partners
- Gateley Corporate team advises on firm’s £4.5m acquisition of GCL Solicitors
- Gateley Corporate team advises on £15m sale of CardOne
- Grafenia PLC acquires Image Everything Limited
- Grosvenor Health and Social Care Limited have bought the entire share capital of Rainbow Services (UK) Limited
- IPE Ventures acquisition of EMR Search & Selection Ltd
- IPO and AIM listing of Verditek Plc
- IPO of Likewise Group Plc
- IPO of Trackwise Designs Plc
- Inflexion’s Management Buyout of PCMS Group
- Inspired Energy Plc Acquisition and Fundraising
- Investment by LDC into Texthelp
- LDC investment in MBO of Martin Audio
- LDC investment into Rolls-Royce and JLR supplier, Precision Micro
- MBO of Rowan International backed by Connection Capital
- Management Buyout of IWSR
- Management buy-out of water pump manufacturer Stuart Turner
- Manchester team advise on double-deal in leisure sector
- NorthEdge backs Bridge Farm Nurseries MBO in first Midlands deal
- Portsmouth FC sold to U.S. owners
- Public company takeover of Panmure Gordon & Co. Plc by Ellsworthy Limited
- Public company takeover of Waterman Group Plc by CTI Engineering
- Sale of CBS Butler Holdings to Staffing 360 Solutions
- Sale of Cashflow Division of Henry Howard Finance
- Sale of Dale Erskine Power Solutions Limited to NVM Private Equity and an MBO team
- Sale of Gallagher Estates
- Sale of General Advertising & Marketing Measurement & Analysis Associates Limited
- Sale of Kimberly Rentals Group to AFI
- Sale of Metal Process Services Holdings Limited (MPS)
- Sale of PowerPax UK to Stadium Group plc
- Sale of WSR Recycling Limited to DM TopCo Limited
- Sale of Yearsley to US-based Lineage Logistics
- Sale of a portfolio of properties by the shareholders of Study Inn
- Secondary buy-out of Giacom
- Team Medical Devices Limited – Transfer to Employee Trust Ownership
- The Coaching Manual: Investment to support international expansion
- Three Swedish acquisitions in quick succession
- Trackwise Designs Plc: AIM admission to drive growth and innovation
- Two Connection Capital deals in quick succession
- Two YFM Private Equity backed MBOs in quick succession
- Two deals on one day for Shard Credit Partners
- We have advised on two key healthcare recruitment deals
- Westleigh Group: Game changer housebuilder sale
- £12m sale of Homes Caring for Autism
- £13.6m MBO of JCRA Group by Connection Capital
- £135m sale of Westleigh Group Limited
- £280m sale of safety solutions provider
- £35.5m investment by LDC in MSQ Partners
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Guides
- 5 ways employers can avoid legal pitfalls during recruitment
- A basic introduction to National Minimum Wage and Living Wage
- A guide for visiting the UK
- A guide to Holiday pay
- A guide to TUPE
- A guide to alternative employment
- A guide to being a witness at an employment tribunal
- A guide to company meetings
- A guide to dealing with bullying and harassment in the workplace
- A guide to dealing with job references
- A guide to making successful senior appointments
- A guide to part-time working
- A guide to starting up a UK business
- A guide to statutory leave entitlement
- A guide to understanding the holiday rights of workers in the UK
- A practical guide for employers when dealing with absences
- A practical guide to disciplining employees
- A practical guide to termination of the employment relationship
- A practical guide to the role of investigations and grievances
- A practical guide to understanding disability discrimination and reasonable adjustments
- A practical guide to understanding family friendly rights
- An employer's guide to dismissing lawfully
- An employer's guide to suspending employees
- An overview of Gateley Capitus services
- An overview of the seven general duties that apply to directors
- Appeal hearings: an employer's guide
- Back to basics #1 – Further assurance and powers of attorney
- Back to basics #2 – Witnessing well
- Back to basics #4 – No waiver clauses
- Capital allowances explained
- Conducting investigations: key planning steps
- Copyright in architects drawings – don’t get it wrong
- Dealing with employees who are persistently late
- Determining the price when buying and selling a business
- Disciplinary hearings: Key planning steps
- Do you have ‘reasonable prevention procedures’ to stop tax evasion?
- Employee Rights Guide
- Endeavouring to understand ‘all reasonable endeavours’
- Execution: Doing a Good Deed
- Floating charges – an introduction
- Guide to R&D tax incentives part four: What is Advance Assurance and what does it mean for SMEs?
- Guide to R&D tax incentives part one: What exactly is R&D tax relief?
- Guide to R&D tax incentives part two: What activities and costs qualify for R&D tax relief?
- Guide to capital allowances part one: Uncovering capital allowances at the beginning of a property acquisition
- Guide to capital allowances part two: What’s so important about Heads of Terms?
- How do you assess an individual’s employment status?
- How to avoid complications during the termination of employment
- How to build business resilience
- How to conduct a right to work check
- How to manage long-term employee absence
- Insurance: top tips for lenders
- Land remediation explained
- Managing performance: an employer's guide
- Preparing for Home Office inspections
- Promoting equal opportunities in the workplace
- Research and development tax relief explained
- Sectional completion and partial possession – What’s the difference?
- Smooth sale-ing: five tips for preparing your business for sale
- Still puzzling over the PSC Register? Take a look at the 5 conditions which must be satisfied
- The enemy from within: protecting your business from rogue ex-employees
- The forgotten class consents
- Top tips for sponsors recruiting migrant nationals
- Top tips on lending to…a Limited Liability Partnership
- Top tips on protecting your capital allowances from the outset
- Top tips: intercreditor arrangements
- US and UK acquisitions: we speak your language – or do we?
- Updated guidance on modern slavery statements
- What are the implications of overhead diversions?
- What are the options for share options?
- What is meant by vacant possession?
- What is novation?
- What is planning permission in principle?
- Why thorough due diligence is important
- How to
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Press releases
- Acquisition of Kiddy & Partners
- Announcement of Intention to Float on AIM
- Charity cycle ride returns to Cheshire
- Daisy Dowling joins Kiddy
- Daisy Dowling speaks at Harvard
- Entrust success - pension scheme shortlisted for prestigious Professional Pensions Award
- Expolink gears up for growth following management buyout
- Full Year Results for the year ended 30 April 2016
- Gateley Capitus bolsters team with new Head of Research and Development Tax Incentives
- Gateley Capitus opens in Belfast
- Gateley Grants score a hole in one with new funding support for female golfers
- Gateley Group conquers national three peaks challenge for Birmingham Mind
- Gateley Hamer expands presence with three hires
- Gateley Hamer expands team with two key appointments
- Gateley Hamer gear up for winning relationship with Acorns
- Gateley Legal advises Volkswagen Financial Services on latest acquisition
- Gateley Legal signs memorandum of understanding with the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Gateley Plc Residential Development team becomes largest in UK
- Gateley Plc advises Brand Events
- Gateley Plc advises CACI on acquisition of Spargonet Consulting Limited
- Gateley Plc advises Carbosynth on merger with Biosynth
- Gateley Plc advises Endless on acquisition of Jones Bootmaker
- Gateley Plc advises Freedom Finance on joint venture with ASDA Money
- Gateley Plc advises Langley Holdings Plc on latest acquisition
- Gateley Plc advises on Everton FC's record sponsorship deals
- Gateley Plc advises on post-Brexit IPOs
- Gateley Plc advises on sale of delatre
- Gateley Plc advises on the sale of Gallagher Estates
- Gateley Plc advises on the sale of Kimberly Rentals Group to AFI
- Gateley Plc advises on £280m sale of safety solutions provider
- Gateley Plc advises on £5.4m sale of IT services business
- Gateley Plc advises technical infrastructure specialist on key acquisition
- Gateley Plc announces 30 promotions across national network
- Gateley Plc announces new Head of Leeds office
- Gateley Plc announces partnership with the UK Cheerleading Association
- Gateley Plc appointed official supplier to PGAs of Europe
- Gateley Plc appoints first family partner in Leicester
- Gateley Plc appoints legal director to head up new residential conveyancing offering
- Gateley Plc appoints legal director to launch residential development offering in Manchester
- Gateley Plc appoints new business services director
- Gateley Plc appoints two partners to launch new Employment offering in Leeds
- Gateley Plc awarded Law Firm of the Year at Thames Valley Deal Awards 2018
- Gateley Plc bolsters Manchester Restructuring team with new partner
- Gateley Plc bolsters its Global Mobility service with key hire
- Gateley Plc continues expansion in Leeds with Commerce, Technology & Media launch and three new appointments
- Gateley Plc expands Private Client offering in the East Midlands
- Gateley Plc expands Residential Development team in Nottingham
- Gateley Plc expands service offering in Reading
- Gateley Plc further expands family team in Leicester
- Gateley Plc further expands residential development offering with second key appointment
- Gateley Plc gets muddy for charity
- Gateley Plc launches residential development offering in East Midlands
- Gateley Plc lawyer set to represent Great Britain at European championships
- Gateley Plc makes key appointment to Surety team
- Gateley Plc makes key residential development partner hire
- Gateley Plc makes record number of promotions
- Gateley Plc marks three years in Reading with new legal appointments
- Gateley Plc named most active M&A legal adviser in North West for 2018
- Gateley Plc named most active legal adviser for Q3 2018
- Gateley Plc named most active legal adviser nationally
- Gateley Plc over halfway to 'Gateley the Guide Dog'
- Gateley Plc provides pro bono advice to Iraqi refugee charity
- Gateley Plc raises more than £50k for charity Baby Lifeline
- Gateley Plc ranked most active legal adviser nationally
- Gateley Plc remains most active Midlands legal adviser for Q1 2017
- Gateley Plc shortlisted for City A.M award
- Gateley Plc smashes 350 mile cycling sportive and exceeds £10k target for Help for Heroes
- Gateley Plc takes on 350 mile national cycle sportive for Help for Heroes
- Gateley Plc wins Angelmist battle
- Gateley Plc's Restructuring Conferences to focus on helping businesses create resilience in an ever-complex world
- Gateley Plc’s Leeds Real Estate team doubles in size
- Gateley Plc’s Reading team rapidly expands Commercial offering
- Gateley acquires Hamer Associates
- Gateley acquires land and property law firm GCL Solicitors LLP
- Gateley advises Dr. Oetker group on its purchase of Alsa baking and dessert business
- Gateley announces 38 promotions across national network
- Gateley expands London team with three key partner hires
- Gateley expands in Leicester with the appointment of two new partners
- Gateley hits the back of the net with sports law competition
- Gateley in Birmingham names Buddy Bag Foundation as new charity partner
- Gateley in Leicester names Leicester Children’s Holidays as new charity partner
- Gateley in Reading names St. Michael’s Hospice as charity partner
- Gateley launches all employee sharesave scheme
- Gateley makes senior residential development hire
- Gateley names Framework as new charity partner
- Gateley names St Ann's Hospice as new charity partner
- Gateley raises over £10,000 for Candlelighters
- Gateley team passes the 100 mark in Leeds
- IPO of Autins Group plc
- Katja Pempelfort joins Kiddy
- Kiddy & Partners to host interactive event exploring change in people practices
- Kiddy joins the Gateley Group to provide a platform for growth
- Pension Protection Fund consults with the Gateley Surety Academy’s Pension Bond Association on new guidance
- Private Equity to take leading role in funding increase in turnaround deals experts predict
- Proposed Acquisition of the Business and Assets of GCL Solicitors LLP ('GCL')
- Record Year Leads to Expansion
- Report Reveals Red Tape Top of Concerns for UK Businesses
- Scheme completes landmark full buy-in, two years ahead of schedule
- Succession planning: how identifying tomorrow's leaders today can save a lot of heartache
- Top financial disputes lawyer joins rapidly expanding Leeds office of Gateley Plc
- ‘Falling in love’ with management can send investments off track research reveals
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Quick reads
- $20 million: the cost of Musk’s misleading tweet
- 10 things to do if you are contacted by an heir hunter
- 2017, the year of the valuer – how can lenders protect themselves?
- 21st Century Trusteeship – the new campaign
- 25 years and counting – pensions equalisation cases keep on coming
- 3 top tips for tenants
- 5 tips for terminating contracts
- 9 Box Grid-Lock
- A few thoughts about the Government's response to the LVC Select Committee report
- A guide to capital allowances
- A lesson on qualifying R&D tax credits with HMRC
- A marriage of inconvenience
- A new code of practice to tackle financial abuse
- A new company is born…
- A stronger Pensions Regulator – consultation on three areas of change
- AIM Rules: social media guidance for companies
- Absolute veto or limited discretionary power?
- Accessing agricultural land for surveys and investigations
- Accounting depreciation v capital allowances – the results of the Office of Tax Simplification findings
- Actuarial valuations in 2018 – the three key points to consider
- Adjudication with Insolvent Companies
- Advance warning – do you have to repay an ‘advance’?
- Affordable Housing and Overage
- Affordable housing and overage: Burrows Investments Limited v Ward Homes Limited
- All by myself: signing documents in counterpart
- All change for master trusts in the UK
- An assignment or not an assignment…that is the question
- An employer's guide to garden leave
- An overview of Excepted Group Life Policy schemes
- An overview of the UK immigration system
- An update to the national minimum wage
- Applications for licence to assign a lease – eschew the email
- Are CDC schemes back on the cards?
- Are shipowners responsible for incomplete voyages?
- Are the PPI floodgates about to re-open?
- Are you ‘board’ with holding directors’ meetings in person?
- Are your sevices the right fit?
- Assignment – can you just say no?
- Assumptions about leadership behaviour in PE deals
- Avoiding discrimination in your recruitment process
- Avoiding litigation – tips for pension trustees
- BA settles long-running dispute with scheme trustee
- BEIS to review ‘sham’ buybacks
- Back to basics #3 – Section 2 LPMPA
- Bad leaver provisions enforceable and not 'unconscionable'
- Bad leaver, good law
- Bank of mum and dad: help or hindrance?
- Behavioural Economics: What HR Needs to Know
- Beneficial ownership register: draft Bill published
- Beware the ‘tail gunner’!
- Breaking news – Supreme Court decision on limitation for office-holder claims
- Breaking news: The right to develop vs. quiet enjoyment – All reasonable steps
- Breaking the Mould
- Bring it back: Why buy back shares?
- Bulk transfers of DC pensions without consent – is existing legislation fit for purpose?
- Business across borders: how does a foreign company sign?
- Business as usual for pension schemes and VAT
- CMA proposes mandatory tenders for fiduciary management
- Can I be rescued from a bad bargain?
- Can a company have no directors?
- Can a member of an LLP charge their interest in that LLP to a third party?
- Can a payment adjudication never be adjudicated on twice?
- Can organisational culture be changed?
- Can the courts assist landowners in the battle against Japanese Knotweed?
- Can you afford to get divorced?
- Can you break the dress code?
- Can your Managers Manage High Potentials?
- Can your Underwriters Make Great Leaders?
- Can’t disclose, won’t disclose – recovery of losses restricted by inadequate disclosure
- Capital allowances
- Cargo claims: How much evidence is needed?
- Changes to accounting standards In the corporate finance arena
- Cladding claims: can the insurer be pursued?
- Clarity for Prohibition Notice appeals – HSE v Chevron North Sea Limited [2018]
- Close of business: 4pm or 7pm?
- Closing a pension scheme to accrual – a more relaxed approach?
- Collection fees – a snake in the grass
- Combating money laundering – the role of the pension scheme trustee
- Common questions: signing documents
- Common sense prevails!
- Commonly asked questions about the signing of deeds and documents
- Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA): are landlords fighting back?
- Compulsory purchase – a threat and an opportunity for housebuilders
- Consent, neglect and connivance: when business risk becomes personal risk for directors
- Considerations for engaging with independent contractors
- Contract-breaker cannot take the benefit of asset sale value
- Contracting-out & GMP revaluation – upcoming deadline
- Contracts and Pension Schemes – When is a contract not a contract?
- Converting offices to hotels and the tax relief nobody knows about
- Corporate governance and insolvency – the Government’s response
- Court of Appeal gives Safeway hope on equalisation
- Court of Appeal: disputed pension rights can be compromised
- Cyber fraud drives extension of Court’s jurisdiction on asset seizure
- DB investment guidance
- DC transfers from hybrid schemes: Have you considered protected tax free cash?
- DS1 disasters
- Dangers of wilful breach of a restrictive covenant
- Dastardly deeds
- Data Protection Act 2018: what you need to know about the new data protection regime
- De-risking CEO appointments
- Deadline approaches for protected rights amendments
- Death of a sole director-shareholder
- Deed or no deed?
- Defective trust deeds – an expensive oversight?
- Defending bribery charges: what are ‘adequate procedures’?
- Development agreements and the Public Contracts Regulations 2015
- Did you hear the one about the five men that walked into a bar?
- Did you know… you can register a priority arrangement at the Land Registry with just a letter?
- Different but equal
- Directors: how to avoid disqualification for competition breaches
- Directors’ addresses: a game of hide and seek?
- Directors’ duties: the risks and possible protections
- Do Development Programmes Actually Work?
- Do you trust e-signatures?
- Does One Size Fit All
- EU Blocking Regulation: Why are we talking about it?
- EU Settlement Scheme: public test phase now open
- Electronic Communications Code – issues for landowners
- Emotional Versus Rational Decision Making
- Employers: Illegal Working – snapshot of the current position
- Energy Performance Certificates explained
- Ensuring L&D has an Impact on your Business Part 1
- Ensuring L&D has an Impact on your Business Part 2
- Equitable Assignment: Is notice required?
- Even the police can be duped: why the risk of pension scams should be flagged to members
- Extinguishing a recent restrictive covenant
- Facilitation of tax evasion – considerations for banks
- Falling in Love with Management can Send Investments off Track Research Reveals
- Fast-boarding new recruits
- Financial aspects of the latest programme of law reform
- Financial considerations for cohabiting couples
- Fiscal Incentives – Autumn Budget 2017
- Five myths about fixed-term employees
- Five myths of resignations
- Five points for employers and pension trustees to consider before entering into litigation
- Five ways to keep your guarantor on the hook
- Flying Freeholds - don't let them go over your head
- Focus on fixtures
- Forfeiture from a lender’s perspective
- From Boutique to Institution
- GDPR for lenders – Pt. 1
- GDPR for lenders – Pt. 2
- GDPR: have you paid your data protection fee?
- GMP Equalisation: the uncertainty continues
- GMP equalisation – a decision at last
- GMP equalisation – trustees can maintain the status quo… for now
- GMP equalisation: A step closer?
- GMP equalisation: is the end in sight?
- Gatekeeper’s right of way?
- Getting divorced: what happens to your virtual assets?
- Give Subject Matter Experts Their Place
- Giving feedback to leaders
- Global expansion: the trade-offs and impact from Brexit
- Global mobility and business immigration
- Good deeds and bad deeds
- Good news for banks as RBS wins landmark misselling case
- Good tax planning: explaining ‘section 431’ elections
- Goods Mortgages Bill: paving the way for more modern personal lending?
- Governing law and jurisdiction clauses: Brexit implications
- Government confirms relaxations to employer debt legislation and transfers without consent
- Government drops the Goods Mortgages Bill
- Government outlines new powers for the Pensions Regulator
- Government response to the Taylor Review: the pensions implications
- Grants of Probate
- Greater clarity for members on DC transaction costs
- Grenfell 2 years on... what now?
- Ground-breaking approach to parental alienation
- Growing your own Talent
- Guarantee or indemnity - what's in a name?
- Guarantees, interest free loans and distributions: latest update
- Guarantees: a cautionary tale for oral representations and entire agreement clauses
- Guarantors: It’s all in the fine print
- Guide to R&D tax incentives part three: How to prepare a claim
- HS2 Phase 1 – Exceptional Hardship Replaced by Need to Sell ‘within three years’
- Hampshire part II... Watch this space
- Hanging on the telephone: virtual board meetings for private companies
- Have you read them yet?
- Heading in the right direction? A consultation on the transfer of contracted-out benefits
- Help for directors on their duties and stakeholder interests
- Help! One of our directors is missing!
- Help! Our dividend was unlawful
- Hive-ups, intra-group loans and distributions
- Holding big businesses to account: pay gap reporting
- Holiday pay compensation post-Brexit
- How can crypto influence a claimants decision making?
- How can you minimise bias in your portfolio?
- How do non-disclosure agreements work and how effective are they?
- How do you review the performance of employees you can't see?
- How does being dismissed on the grounds of incapacity affect your pension?
- How foreign nationals can invest in the UK
- How mediation can be used to settle disputes in the workplace
- How should joint sellers share liability?
- How to Build a Feedback Culture
- How to Develop Millenial Leaders
- How to challenge your assumptions around human capital
- How to help your grandchildren get onto the property ladder
- How to not be a shadow director
- How top firms drive value through people
- How will AI robots impact your business?
- How will the launch of the Single Financial Guidance Body work?
- I am on holiday...over and out
- I want my property back!
- IFRS 16: are your covenants up to scratch?
- Identifying agreed contractual terms
- If it’s “buyer beware” – should a seller care?
- If the (compensation) cap doesn’t fit…
- If the cap fits – interpretation of caps on liability
- Improving decision-making to maximise value creation in private equity
- Improving leaders' organisational insights
- In it for the long haul
- In with the old... out with the new...
- Increasing the diversity of UK boards
- Increasing transparency: a PSC register for overseas companies?
- Indemnities: a question of interpretation?
- Index-linked rent reviews
- Insolvency and performance bonds
- Is a Pre-Nup worth it?
- Is an easement the end of the line?
- Is divorce a game of hide and seek?
- Is employee ownership a help or hindrance to UK companies?
- Is happiness really a room without a roof?
- Is mobility on your mind?
- Is there a general equitable duty on a lender to act in good faith?
- Is your share buyback a sham?
- It's not what you know
- I’ve won, does the loser pay my legal costs?
- Judging on the balance of probabilities – it’s murder!
- Key points you need to consider when buying at auction
- Key trends in Leadership Development
- LIBOR or not LIBOR, that is the question
- Land Registry indemnities
- Land value capture and compulsory purchase legislation
- Land value capture – Wild goose chase could lead to changing compulsory purchase legislation for the worse
- Landlords beware, tenants be aware
- Leadership development - the gift that goes on giving
- Leading in Uncertain Times
- Learning from Looking Forwards
- Letters of credit: fraud exception tightened
- Letting commercial properties with an F or G rating from April 2018
- Limited partnership reform: What to expect
- Long arm jurisdiction: Where is the line?
- Losing capacity whilst working
- Lost and found
- Make the most of older workers
- Making mediation work for you
- Making sure share buybacks remain buybacks
- Mandatory increases to auto-enrolment contribution rates
- Manifest error: how obvious must it be?
- Methods of alternative dispute resolution in Family Law
- Mind the Gap
- Minority shareholder ‘dragged’ into sale
- More aggro in post-termination restrictions
- Must a lender brief a borrower on lending limits?
- NDAs: out of the shadows and into the spotlight
- NEC 4: what do the changes mean for Sureties?
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow – the Pensions White Paper
- New Corporate Governance Code: a code for success?
- New DC costs and charges disclosure requirements
- New Standards for Professional Trustees
- New disclosure rules: understanding your duties
- New lettings – exemptions from MEES regulations
- New online right to work tool: How and when to use
- New report reveals opportunities for private sector to work with local authorities on the direct provision of housing
- New terms, new guarantee?
- No Privilege – a reminder of the limitations of lawyer privilege
- No [no no no] Novation
- No clawing back HS2 costs through regeneration opportunities
- No more sharing without caring? Copyright in the digital age
- Not a bartering tool: discharging restrictive covenants
- On the Hunt for the first major casualty of the PSC regime
- One Step Too Far? Negotiating damages and Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support) Ltd
- Open Banking: a banking revolution?
- Oral modification of a ‘no oral modification’ clause?
- Overpaid pensions and members rights - what does case law say?
- Parking Fines – resistance isn’t futile
- Part Time v Full Time – is my pension affected?
- Pension scheme members’ decision making: what does informed choice look like?
- Pensions liberation fraud – the Regulator takes action
- Pensions regulation in the future
- Performance management - new realities
- Personal guarantees – back in the spotlight
- Planning to issue new shares? There’s ‘allot’ to think about
- Positive or negative?
- Post-Brexit references to EU law
- Potential implications for trade in branded goods post Brexit
- Power of a partner to bind a partnership
- Pre-nuptial agreements – no bar to a happy marriage
- Presenteeism: Exloding myths and exploring management implications
- Project policies up in flames
- Public Procurement – A new way to avoid the regulations?
- Putting a company into administration
- Putting out fires: The effect of insurance on exclusion clauses
- RPI / CPI: the light at the end of the tunnel?
- RPI or CPI – how to calculate pension increases
- Reasonably fit for purpose?
- Recent Case Law Affecting Developers
- Recovering overpayments in construction contracts – no second chances?
- Rectification to the rescue…sometimes
- Reducing transfer value quotes in an underfunded scheme: trustee considerations
- Redundancy: Getting it right
- Register of shareholders: access denied!
- Regulatory reminder of basic trustee duties
- Reignite your middle managers
- Reinstating the hierarchy of HMRC
- Relief for employers over taxing question
- Remuneration and Benefits in Kind – transaction at an undervalue?
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