With John Buyers, a partner and head of Commercial, Outsourcing and Technology at international law firm Stephenson Harwood. Buyers has practiced for many years as a lawyer in the IT and outsourcing industries, including at Elonex plc where he was general counsel and at Capgemini where he was lead international outsourcing counsel.

Our Pensions Quarterly Update covers key developments across IHT and pensions, surplus payments, Value for Money, DC trustees, dashboards, flexible apportionment, VAT, the general levy, guided retirement and more.

Banks who are participating in a borrower work-out or negotiating an agreement whereby one bank will take out the other, should take note of a recent decision of the High Court in National Westminster Bank plc v Rabobank Nederland [2007] EWCH 1056 (Comm) in which the Court ruled on the duties of disclosure in such circumstances.

Guernsey’s new fund regime will be examined at a masterclass in London at the start of March.

Foundry Partners launches the Fund Foundry, the Crown Dependencies' first structured support programme for emerging fund managers, offering five annual places with £25,000 service vouchers, regulatory fast-tracking through Guernsey's established framework, and dedicated mentorship from experienced GPs.

The question of law on this appeal was whether the term in a bareboat charterparty obliging charterers to "keep the vessel with unexpired classification of the class indicated in Box 10 and with other required certificates ...

The Working Guide to Fund Finance is the brainchild of Jeremy Cross (who wrote many of the main chapters and serves as the book's consulting editor).

The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to stretch companies to their limits and many may become overleveraged as they battle with revenue loss, rising borrowing costs and dwindling cashflows.

In four recent decisions, the English Court has considered, and provided some clarification on, the appropriate approach in relation to jurisdiction clauses in complex banking transactions, and the granting of anti-suit injunctions.

COVID-19 has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization ("WHO") . It has become a threat not just to the existence of humanity but every activity imaginable.

Family Offices Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of United Kingdom, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries.

John Buyers of Stephenson Harwood explores some of the key issues surrounding China’s determination to be an offshore services giant.

Owing to an increasingly challenging global landscape, settlors are turning to trusts for asset protection – but real care needs to be taken when setting up such a structure.

Communications between a solicitor and his client for the purposes of seeking or giving legal advice, or for the purposes of litigation, are normally privileged.

Asia is now home to more than a quarter of the world's 2,754 billionaires and this portion is predicted to rise to one-third by 2023, according to Wealth-X's 2021 Billionaire Census.

This edition of snapshot summarises some of the key legal and regulatory developments that occurred up to the end of March 2018 in relation to occupational pension schemes.

As cases of Covid-19 continue to rise around the globe, many employees will sadly fall ill with the virus or be required to self-isolate.

January 2018: as dawn breaks on a new year, we can look on the profoundly changed landscape wrought by Brexit – riven and divided it is true...

ESG Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Hong Kong, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

Following the end of the Brexit transition period, the United Kingdom has retained the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679 ) ("EU GDPR") as part of its national laws, as the "UK GDPR"...