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Nigel Gibson-Birch has recently joined our Private Client Team and here his CV shows what he can bring to this expanding department. Before joining us he was a Partner in the long established firm of Williams & Company where he built up a strong client base. Personal Profile Experienced in many areas of the law,
I have been fortunate enough to work with many inspiring women both within my firm and those entrepreneurial women I have met being either contacts or clients of the firm. It’s always a motivation to meet with women whose business / career is just as important to them as their family life and who really
All businesses and individuals now need to be aware of new bribery legislation which came into force on 1st July this year. The Bribery Act describes actions which involve “a financial or other advantage” being offered or received in exchange for “a business function or decision to be carried out improperly” as being potentially criminal.
When drawing up deeds it is vital to meet all the legal requirements – otherwise the document could prove invalid and cost you thousands of pounds, as one firm found recently. The case involved a financial services company that entered into an invoice discounting facility with two directors of a client firm. A deed was
When buying a business it’s important to ensure that the seller doesn’t try to entice away clients or customers once the sale goes through. For this reason, most firms will insist on a covenant preventing the seller from setting up a rival business or soliciting his former customers for a specified period. The value of
Relationships between shareholders in small companies are often tense, but what happens if they refuse allow meetings to take place that could determine the future of the business? The issue arose in a case involving a taxi firm that had two shareholders who were also both directors. The minority shareholder played no active part in
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has warned that consumer landlords are still being presented with potentially unfair terms in contracts with some letting agents. The warning follows the enforcement case last year against Foxtons for breaching the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (UTCCR). Foxtons agreed to amend some of its terms concerning
Businesses need to ensure they follow the correct procedures when making redundancies. Otherwise mistakes can lead to claims of unfair dismissal, as happened in a recent case involving a company that needed to lay off a number of staff. The company had selection procedures in place and used them to assess which employees should be