The Corporate Finance Team of Lupton Fawcett LLP is pleased to announce the completion of corporate transactions totalling over £250 million in the last twelve months. These are some that occurred in the last six months of 2007.
July 2007
Dorlux Beds
Asset Acquisition
Advised the Acquirer
Neoss Ltd
Equity investment by MMC Ventures
Advised Neoss
August 2007
Barrett Design and Build Ltd
Management Buy-Out
Advised [...]

Posted: February 29th, 2008 under Corporate Finance.
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It has been the position for some time (Dunnet v Railtrack in 2002) that a party who is successful at trial or appeal (and would therefore normally be entitled to expect to receive its costs from the other side), may be at risk of not being awarded some, or all, of those costs, if they [...]

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Dispute Management.
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The Court of Appeal’s decision in the matter of Gaston Siborurema v (1) Office of the Independent Adjudicator (“OIA”) (2) London South Bank University (“LSBU”) [2007] EWCA Civ 1365 has provided clarity on two important issues concerning the OIA and, by extension, Higher Education Institutions (“HEIs”).
Although dealt with in the Court of Appeal Mr [...]

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Dispute Management.
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Virtually every commercial website should comply with the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002. Between these Regulations and the Companies Act, the requirements for websites are to display, in an easily accessible manner, the company or firm’s
i) full name (including ‘Ltd’ etc.; this may be different from its trading name);
ii) email address;
iii) geographic address;
iv) registered office (if a [...]

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Business Regulation.
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There are some basic rules to obey in data protection. It is generally not a criminal offence to breach the rules but you may get an ‘enforcement notice’ and breach of that would be a criminal offence. The basic rules are generally as follows.
(i) Keep customers informed. Tell customers (a) that you keep [...]

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Business Regulation.
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