November 2008 - International shipping and maritime law
Shipping law is divided into two primary areas, namely dry shipping which concerns contractual issues, bill of lading and charterparty disputes, and disputes about...

November 2008 - Denton Wilde Sapte LLP – Focusing on New Technology
Denton Wilde Sapte is an international law firm headquartered in London with a geographic footprint across...

November 2008 - UK Shipping and Maritime Law
Curtis David Garrard (CDG) is a young and energetic UK law firm working exclusively in the global energy and shipping sectors. Based in London, our business is international in scope, and...

November 2008 - South Africa – Webber Wentzel - South Africa's leading full service law firm
Webber Wentzel (WW) is South Africa's leading full service law firm. We offer specialist legal advice covering all...

October 2008 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
The civil law landscape has changed dramatically in the UK during the past decade. A series of procedural reforms, put in place following Lord Woolf’s review of the civil system, have thrown...

October 2008 - Employment Law
During its 2007 to 2008 session, the US Supreme Court addressed more employment law issues than in any other term in history. In addition, 85,000 people filed discrimination suits against...

October 2008 - Intellectual Property
Idea and innovation are essential catalysts for growth in today’s largest economies, but they are increasingly tough to protect. Worldwide patent filings are rising dramatically year-on-year and topped...

September 2008 - IGAL: a global one-stop shop
With mid-market companies exposed to an ever more international business community, owner managers and directors can be quickly intimidated by operating across borders...

August 2008 - UK Tax who’s Who Forward
Perhaps the biggest news for UK companies this year is the change to the Capital Gains Tax regime. This will perhaps be best remembered for the climb down from Alistair Darling’s...

August 2008 - Sports Law: Fair Play
August promises to be an exciting month in the Sports world. The Beijing Olympics sees the coming together of athletes from many nations across the globe...

August 2008 - International Tax who’s Who
At present the EU represents a myriad different tax rates and approaches to tax legislation. However, the desire of the EU to create a harmonised system may change this in the future...

August 2008 - The IMA: promoting an industry
The Interim Management Association (IMA), originally named ATIES, was formed in 1987 to represent the interests of the then burgeoning interim management industry...

June 2008 - Dispute resolution in the UK and Europe
The last decade has been a period of significant change for the European commercial dispute resolution arena. With court time at a premium and a growing emphasis on alternatives to litigation...

June 2008 - Tackling International Commercial Crime
A magnet for global controversy, white collar crime has been in the spotlight as never before since US scandals transformed the fraud landscape at the beginning of this decade...

May 2008 - EU Corporate Tax
At present the EU represents a myriad different tax rates and approaches to tax legislation. However, the desire of the EU to create a harmonised system may change this in the future...

May 2008 - International Employment Law
Choosing to set up operations in more than one country can be hazardous for several reasons, and one of the most potent is the legislation of the destination country...

May 2008 - Exploring Shari' ah Law
It is estimated that the Islamic finance market is now worth more than £250 billion worldwide and is growing at 15 percent a year. British banks are racing against each other to launch...

April 2008 - Simplicity and Fairness? Corporate tax review 2008
As another tax year comes to a close, Daniel Wilkins caught up with a number of the UK’s leading tax advisers to discuss...

January 2008 - Terminating Employment: A Trickier Game in 2008
For the new year, employers will have to think twice before making collective redundancies and forcing retirement...

November 2007 - Entertainment Law
The glitz and glamour of the entertainment world goes hand in hand with developments originating in the notably geekier world of technology. With the arrival of digital media, web 2.0 and...

August 2007 - 2007 Corporate Tax Review
The UK’s corporate tax regime is a complex one. For our 2007 Corporate Tax Review, Corporate UK spoke to a number of leading tax practitioners about the current regime...

July 2007 - Commercial dispute resolution is changing
The last decade has been a period of significant change for professional services in the dispute resolution arena. With court time at a premium and a growing emphasis on...

June 2007 - REITs: spreading the risks of investment
All year surveyors, property lawyers and tax advisers have been preparing for the introduction of REITs. But what are REITs and what are their benefits?...

April 2007 - Green is the new black
Once a minority concern, environmental management has become big news of late. As more and more UK businesses look beyond compliance to the potential benefits...

March 2007 - Acquiring into Poland
Polish accession to the EU had mostly positive impact on the attractiveness of cross border deals in Poland, although some negative implications may also be noticed...

February 2007 - Safeguarding innovations
Securing a firm’s intellectual property is becoming widely recognised as a central function of sound management. Corporate UK spoke to Catrin Turner of law firm McGrigors...

December 2006 - The 2006 Regulation Roundup
In October of this year Lord Browne, BP’s Chief Executive was ordered by a judge in the USA to testify in the federal court case against BP concerning an explosion at its Texas refinery in 2005...

September 2006 - Corporate Tax: Complexity and Simplification
A month after a call from the leader of the Liberal Democrats for action to simplify tax for small businesses...

July 2006 - Shortfalls and simplification
Pension shortfall is an area of concern for businesses across the UK. There is talk of a crisis, and the voices are growing in volume. Meanwhile new regulations coming into force...

July 2006 - Shields and Swords: Competition Law
Competition issues have accounted for a sizeable number of the inches of business reportage across Europe of late. In June the news broke of investigations into British Airways...

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