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PITFALLS OF “THE WHEEZE” OF REMUNERATING EMPLOYEES WITH “ALPHABET” SHARES
Companies (particularly those business ventures which were originally founded as owner / manager enterprises, and whose stakeholders are familiar with taking their “rewards from business” / "profit extractions" - in a mixture of salary and bonus employed remuneration and shareholder dividends) - sometimes seek to "expand" their own historic approach; and therefore decide to implement arrangements rewarding and/or (part-)remunerating certain of their (usually) "key-man" [...]
DON’T BE NAIVE ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (“NDA”)
OR - MATT HANCOCK = WHO’S A SILLY BOY THEN?”! The political shenanigans involved in Ms. Isobel Oakeshott's 'shafting' of 'The Right Honourable' Mr. Matt Hancock MP (of the last few days) - Has spurred this writer into preparing this blog post - On an issue that I really want to emphasise to contacts and clients (and which many of them - seem to [...]
M&A TODAY – GLOBAL AWARDS – 2023 EDITION : BEST M&A LAWYERS OF THE YEAR – LONDON, UK
We are delighted to announce that Equitable Law has received further recognition and an additional award, as follows: The official "M&A Today – Global Awards – 2023 Edition" has announced that this firm is award: Best Lawyers of the Year - 2023 - London, UK We are delighted to announce that Equitable Law has received further recognition and an additional award, as follows: The [...]
Q & A WITH MR. DAN JOHNSON – BUSINESS LAW SOLICITOR
Our Founding Principal (and Lead Business Law Solicitor), Mr Dan Johnson - Was recently interviewed by Mr Robert Flint of the “Adviserly” Network -In a Q&A session with regard to our practice.Please feel free to watch and listen to the results (of our 'non-media trained' founder!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrVUTQQ4AEsShould Mr. Johnson and/or Equitable Law potentially be of any assistance to you = Please don't hesitate to contact us [...]
DEBT RECOVERY – THE BASICS
We are often contacted by those who have an issue with a significant debt owed to them - more often than not - arising from a business relationship. It's one of those areas of legal practice - where there isn't generally much 'law' at stake, and we fell that contacts/clients are best served (in large) part by treating the relevant aspect as a commercial [...]
“BE CAREFUL OUT THERE” – THE FCA AUTHORISES SOME DUBIOUS BUSINESSES
https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/08443946-crossflow-payment-solutions-trading-limited = This is the wholly insolvent "Crossflow Payment Solutions" - Incredibly, they are authorised and regulated by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (#FCA) in relation to their business. One will quite quickly realise that #CrosslowP are insolvent upon a balance sheet basis, and the circa GBP £5,000,000 insolvent position they are in - is actually getting worse at a rate of knots. However, [...]
THE “ONE DAY DIDDLE” = SHORTENING OF AN ACCOUNTING REFERENCE PERIOD ACTUALLY ‘BUYS TIME’ TO DELAY PRODUCING STATUTORY ACCOUNTS
Whenever you see an accounting reference date shortened by a day (such as this example) - One should know that they are taking advantage of an ability (by shortening their accounting reference date – just before they are due to file accounts) - which results in the company involved having more time before they are required to file their statutory accounts for the relevant [...]
EMAIL SCAMS USING ‘ALIAS’ FUNCTIONALITY
This is a hasty note - related to an email-based scam that one of this firm's contacts/clients fell victim to and which caused them to lose a significant six-figure sum! We annex an example of an e-mail sent to the writer, received recently, and which you will note appears to have originated with me. Presumably, people’s greed will cause them to click the link [...]
BE SURE YOU CAN RELY UPON YOUR LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE . . .
This “legal business” does not look to us to be in robust health - Notwithstanding the graphical representation of the balance sheet history (which might 'fool' people to believe that it is an entity of substance):- https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/08066586-lawbit-limited Just imagine running a business where one has managed to lose (i.e. "burn through") over Seven Million British Pounds Sterling (>GBP £7,000,000+) of investors' capital (via accumulated [...]