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After the enforced 18 months Covid break, the ACUMEN BUSINESS CONVENTION 2021 held its special back from Covid celebration with almost 300 decision makers from across the region. After a warm welcome by tribal zebra people, delegates sat down for a scrumptious lunch and drinks at the Grand hotel, Brighton.…
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Head of Corporate Alvin Ittoo and his team recently completed the sale of leading VAT technology firm euVAT Online to global tax-tech solutions provider Cygnet Infotech. The transaction was an asset sale involving the acquisition of the goodwill, business and intellectual property rights comprising the euVAT Online business. The business…
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MSCHF are a Brooklyn based collective with a history of hitting the news with absurd projects that toe the line of legal infringements. Following on from their infamous modified “Satan” Air Max 97 shoes, which featured real human blood and resulted in a successful law suit by Nike, MSCHF are…
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Rudolf Oetker was a German entrepreneur who took over the Oetker Company from his grandfather (the founder of the Oetker group). When Rudolf passed in 2007 he left his eight children the legacy of the Dr. Oetker group, comprising 400 companies, each heir holding 12.5% of the shares. However, there…
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Whether you are a buyer or seller of a business, the early stages of a transaction are usually the same. There will be, sometimes seemingly endless, discussions, negotiations and bargaining before a deal is struck. At this stage it is sensible to commit the key agreed terms to a document…
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Generally speaking having formalised, professional drafted terms, from a lawyer’s perspective, are always essential for every business. They provide the structure for the working relationship between client and supplier, set out the expectations of the parties on various points ranging from the intellectual property ownership to the total liabilities of…
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Where Personal Data is concerned the landscape is always developing and the most recent development, beyond the EU’s determination of the UK as ‘Adequate’, is the approval and issuing of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) by the European Commission. We discuss below the instances in which SCCs are necessary, and…
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An employee of Saville Estate Agents is suspended after (allegedly) posting racist tweets on his social media account. But, just like shaggy, he says…’It wasn’t me’! What are the risks for businesses? On the one hand, if the employee has more than two years’ service he is protected from being…
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As part of agreeing a contract with a prospective client a key element of the contract will be the term for which services or goods are to be provided; where there is a fixed project it may be that the term correlates to the delivery of the project itself, but…
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