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Corporate finance lawyers advise clients on all aspects of the buying and selling of interests in businesses or business assets, relationships with their shareholders, corporate governance and fundraising.
Virtually all commercial transactions have tax implications.
How effective are the efforts currently underway to prevent companies from avoiding paying corporation tax?
It has come to our attention that there is an error in The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook 2013 in the entry for Francis Taylor Building.
Access to justice is invaluable, but at what price?
What are the implications of the Bribery Act 2010 for corporates with a presence in the United Kingdom?
What is the true cost of free trade?
It’s a tale of many takeovers this week, as you’ll see from below. Read on to discover more about the machinations related to buying and selling companies – as well as news that TSB is in an IT-related pickle.
Who foots the bill for industrial incidents like the Buncefield explosion in 2005?
Axiom Ince has been shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following allegations of financial misappropriation – a closure that could end up being the most expensive SRA intervention in history.
Browne Jacobson LLP and the Governmental Legal Department are among the 16 organisations that have come together to develop a new Level 6 legal apprenticeship – the costs lawyer apprenticeship.
Research and writing skills tests could no longer be included in stage one of the new Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), with the Solicitors Regulation Authority suggesting that law firms could instead pay for potential trainees to take these tests separately.
Anyone and anything could be the basis of a new TV show or movie nowadays, right? Individuals, books, comics, video games and the list goes on…some have turned out great, others not so much!
Let’s face it, long drawn-out job applications can be a drag! Particularly training contract applications where there are multiple stages to go through.
How will the implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's new costs management rules affect litigation cases?
The cost of taking the Bar Professional Training Course has been increased by almost every course provider this year.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board are responsible for prescribing the training requirements needed to qualify as a solicitor or a barrister in England and Wales.
MPs have sharply criticised the government’s courts modernisation programme because it “risks excluding the most vulnerable in our society from access to justice,” and called for a halt in the process of court closures.
