In this article, learn how the the Courts are now entitled to use indirect coercive means to influence debtors’ disposal to pay - they can impose fines and even restrain certain rights to force the debtor to come up with assets/money to solve their debt.
This Top Ten gives ten key tips to avoid common risk allocation drafting pitfalls, and achieve legal and business objectives.
This brief resource (Quick Counsel) explores the meaning and implications of a "joint and several" clause in a contract.
This sample checklist walks in-house counsel through the Intellectual Property (IP) due diligence process, in preparation for negotiating the asset purchase agreement.
This primer considers in detail the use of English law in Belt & Road transactions.
This podcast will focus on issues that should be negotiated up front as part of a trademark consent agreement to avoid problems that can arise after a trademark consent agreement has been executed. Duration: 12 minutes and 25 seconds.
Before any company enters into an asset purchase agreement, it needs to know the value of what it will be buying. To effectively negotiate an asset purchase agreement, and to know whether to enter into the agreement at all, counsel needs to conduct thorough due diligence of the target company’s assets. This podcast will walk you through the key watch-outs for IP due diligence to help prepare you to negotiate an asset purchase agreement.
This article points out that in case the corporate purpose of the legal entity is distorted, deviating the company from its goal for acts deliberately performed by its members, officers and managers, or, further, if such individuals cause improperly a confusion between their own assets and legal entity’s, the abuse of corporate entity is acknowledged, with the legitimation of court intervention, establishing the effects on the private assets of members and officers, who become equally and jointly liable for company’s obligations.
This article focuses on developments in relation to the EU Judgments Regulation and class composition where recent cases have highlighted a more rigorous approach taken by the English Court.