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Solicitors' role in protecting human rights is key when advising UK companies on their conduct at home and abroad, the Law Society will say today (15th September). The representative body for solicitors will announce that human rights in business operations of all sizes is becoming increasingly important. Business and human rights is the concept […]
Travelling from home to first client, patient or customer and home from the last one at the end of shift is rightly counted as working time which should now be paid for says GMB GMB, the union for British Gas, AA, meter readers and home care workers, welcome the judgement by the European Court that […]
Leading offshore law firm Appleby acted as Cayman counsel for LEAP Holdings Group Limited (LEAP Holdings) in relation to its listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 2 September, with gross proceeds of approximately HK$143 million. LEAP Holdings is the third foundations company Appleby has assisted with its HKEx listing […]
Two leading Regional firms have advised the shareholders of Llewellyn Smith Limited, the market leader in providing compliance based services to domestic energy efficiency installations, on its sale to the Servest Group. Bury St Edmunds headquartered Servest Group, is one of the UK's largest facilities management service providers. The team at Greene & Greene Solicitors […]
The total amount of Inheritance Tax Relief claimed against charitable donations made in wills has hit a record high, up 7% on last year* to £630 million, says Wilsons, the leading charity law firm. Wilsons estimates the total value of bequests from estates over the Inheritance Tax (IHT) threshold last year at £1.6 billion. […]
Draft regulations have been published that could see individuals and their tax advisers having to disclose participation in all but the most basic of inheritance tax (IHT) planning. The draft regulations could, says law firm Boodle Hatfield, require even straightforward arrangements to be disclosed, swamping HMRC with information that they do not want or need. […]
The new Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) process, provided by the Office of the Public Guardian last month, removes certain safeguards that could lead to abuse of the system, warns solicitors Moore Blatch. The new process is intended to increase take-up of LPAs, which is woefully low, with only around 15% of people aged over […]
King & Wood Mallesons has harnessed its global capability, bringing together teams in London and Hong Kong to advise Chinese travel group HK CTS Metropark Hotels Co Ltd (CTS) on the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of UK based Kew Green Hotels from previous owners Goldman Sachs and TPG Special Situations Partners. Kew […]
Clifford Chance advised The Coca-Cola Company with regards to German law aspects on the combination of its three operations Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and the German Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG into the world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottler based on net revenues. The company's name will be Coca-Cola European Partners. As a combined company it is […]
In response to comments made today (Aug 6) by the Governor of the Bank of England and publication of the Inflation Report, Eddie Goldsmith Chairman of the Conveyancing Association said: “There is still a concern that home-owners across the UK have grown dangerously accustomed to low interest rates, and any sudden rate rise compounded […]
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