COVID-19 has disrupted the world beyond predictions, and no sector has been exempt from the upheaval. As a result, a large proportion of firms are expecting to make a claim for business disruption in some form.
It’s crucial to protect your business assets if you want to stay afloat in a crisis. Without a proper asset protection plan, you run the risk of losing your business and your wealth to creditors, debt collectors, and lawsuits.
The traditional network of advice and support that surrounds business leaders has broken down. How has the role of a lawyer changed during this crisis, and what can be learned from the new status quo?
There is no doubt the impact of the coronavirus on the commercial property market is going to be significant. The government’s decision to close all retail and leisure outlets until further notice leaves both landlords and tenants uncertain where they stand. So, Rebecca Cleal from the Commercial Property team at Ipswich law firm, Prettys, has looked […]
Such choice of law happens relatively often in international commercial contracts for various reasons. With contractual limitations on damages being critically important in commercial contracts, allowing parties to better assess and control business risks arising from a commercial transaction, Andrea Haefeli touches here on the contractual limitation on damages under Swiss law, i.e. what liabilities […]
International law firm Ashurst is bolstering its international equity capital markets/US securities and M&A practices with the appointment of Melody He-Chen as a partner in Hong Kong.
In order to prevent conflicts of interests and enhance transparency, recent proposed amendments to the Arbitration Rules of the World Bank’s ICSID include a new rule that obliges parties to disclose the existence and name of any third-party funders and an expansion of the definition of third-party funding.
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