5 February 2010 | Bob Fahy
Make sure when you are carrying out your due diligence exercise that you also check that all employees can legally work in the UK. If there are employees who are transferring to you and have been granted...
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26 January 2010 | Emma Cameron
Background
The claimant (Invertec) and the first defendant (De Mol Holding BV (DMH)) entered into a sale and purchase agreement for the sale by DMH to Invertec of all of the issued shares in Volante...
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18 January 2010 | Emma Cameron
What is the Association of British Insurers?
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is the trade association for the UK's insurance industry. The ABI has around 400 companies in its membership....
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18 January 2010 | Emma Cameron |
The Financial Services and Markets Tribunal (FSMT) published a decision on 11 January 2010 which upheld findings made by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on market abuse by a research analyst and...
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5 January 2010 | Emma Cameron
The Duties
Directors of companies have always been subject to various duties but until the Companies Act 2006 ("the 2006 Act") came into force, these duties had not been consolidated and set out...
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9 December 2009 | Shimon Shaw
Today’s PRB was fairly boring. Unless you are a bank. Or a banker. Or a shareholder of a bank (which I suppose includes all of us).
So let’s get the bankers out of the way before looking at...
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3 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, as between a supplier and a consumer, any contractual terms not individually negotiated shall be unfair and therefore unenforceable if they...
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