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Corporate.

Position

Corporate partner specialising in private equity (clients include Legal & General Ventures – acquisition of nine private hospitals from BUPA in June 2005; disposal of IDH for £300m in 2007); M&A (clients include VT Group plc, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, TT electronics, AIG, and IRIS Software Group); and corporate finance (clients include Software Radio Technology plc – AIM float October 2005, First London Securities plc).

Career

Trained Cameron Markby Hewitt/McKenna; qualified 1997; assistant solicitor CMS Cameron McKenna 1997; partner CMS Cameron McKenna 2005.

Member

Law Society.

Education

Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, Elstree; St Edmund Hall, Oxford (First Class Honours).

Practice Areas

Corporate finance; M&A; Private equity

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Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.

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Applications for Concluding Advance Pricing Agreements

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Extension of amnesty for late payment of tax liabilities

In November 2011 the Cyprus Parliament enacted a law allowing for a partial write-off of interest and penalties on overdue tax liabilities of companies and individuals in respect of tax years up to and including 2008.

- Andreas Neocleous & Co
AIFM Directive - Analysis highlights Commission divergence from ESMA level 2 proposals.

The Alternative Investment Management Association has published an analysis of the divergences it has identified between the European Commission's draft Level 2 regulation implementing the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and the technical advice provided to the Commission last November by the European Securities and Markets Authority.

- Chevalier & Sciales
HOUSING

In Nzinga Maswaku v Westminster City Council [2012] EWCA Civ 669 the Court of Appeal clarified that in offering a homeless person with alternative temporary accommodation the local authority is obliged to point that if the offer is refused it has discharged its Part VII duties under the Housing Act 1996.

- 11KBW
UK Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): A new opportunity for Jersey?

The 2012 UK Budget confirmed that, following a consultation period, changes to the current UK REIT regime are expected to be introduced in the third quarter of 2012.

- Carey Olsen
Public Procurement 2012

Norway is a member of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”), and a party to the EEA agreement. Through the EEA agreement Norway has implemented EU legislation on, inter alia, public procurement.

- Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
SPCs for medicinal products – the opinion of the Advocate General in the Neurim case

On 3rd May 2012, Advocate General Verica Trstenjak issued her opinion in case C-130/11, also known as the Neurim case. Should the Court of Justice choose to accept the findings of the opinion, it will improve the possibility for the pharmaceutical industry in Europe to obtain SPCs for medicinal products.

- Advokatfirmaet Grette DA
Latest developments in planning and zoning

In Le Temps, the daily newspaper of reference of Western Switzerland, Yves de Coulon analyses the latest developments in the field of planning and zoning: Weber Initiative, Landscape Initiative, recent modifications of the Federal Law on planning and zoning, what consequences on the cantons' autonomy in the area of planning and zoning?

- BCCC Attorneys-at-law LLC
Revocation and Replacement of Minister of Trade Regulation on Import of Finished Goods and the...

Issuance of Licensed Importer Numbers

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Lump Sum taxation

The head of our tax practice group, partner Dominique Christin, summarises the legal requirements to obtain a lump sum taxation status in Switzerland and in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud.

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