Gannons IP Tech Seminar part of London Technology Week

This is your Last chance to secure your place at the Gannons Technology & Intellectual Property seminar.  Gannons are bringing together respected professionals from both legal and commercial technology sectors. Our seminar will cover:   Tech and Software: Discover how businesses can and should navigate, embrace and compete with the deluge of disruptive technologies affecting their status quo.  […]

THE DCSL BUSINESS ADVISORY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE TOOL KIT

The Business Advisory & Regulatory Compliance Unit of DCSL Corporate Service Limited provides advisory services with respect to corporate set-up, appropriate legal form and structure, as well as statutory and regulatory compliance matters having significant impact on businesses. Some of the services offered by the Unit include; Business Advisory Investment & Corporate Structure Advisory Recognizing […]

Bisi AdeyemiManaging Director, DCSL Corporate Services Limited

Shareholder deadlock

Shareholder deadlock is common: a company with two directors and shareholders, each owning 50%, cannot agree at board or shareholder level. No decisions can be made. In the legal sense, the company is “deadlocked”. Shareholder agreements and articles of association rarely cover deadlock. The scenario is common. Two talented individuals pool skills and resources to […]

Micro Businesses: Government Consultation

The vulnerabilities of so called ‘micro businesses’ are being addressed under government plans to protect, and better equip micro businesses in the market place.  The proposals follow responses to a consultation by the previous government in supporting and protecting micro businesses that buy goods and services from other businesses in non-regulated sectors. The vulnerabilities of […]

Alex CanhamPartner, Herrington Carmichael LLP

Ashfords advised Centrax Industries Limited on the share sale of its subsidiary, Centrax Turbine Components Limited (

Centrax share sale of its subsidiary Centrax Turbine Components Limited to MB Aerospace Holdings Limited Ashfords advised Centrax Industries Limited on the share sale of its subsidiary, Centrax Turbine Components Limited (“CTCL“),with its 430 employee / >£40M turnover turbine components businessto Scottish based MB Aerospace Holdings Limited, majority owned by the Blackstone Group, for an […]

Stovax Heating Group Limited

Simon Rous and Jane Ireland, Corporate Partners at Ashfords LLP, recently advised the shareholders of Stovax Heating Group Limited on the second tranche share transfer to NIBE Industrier AB, an international technology company creating sustainable energy solutions’ based in Sweden. The Stovax Group is the UK’s largest stove and fireplace producer. The group manufactures and […]

VAT Rule Changes for UK Wholesale Telecommunications Supplies

VAT Reverse Charge Mechanism to apply to Certain Wholesale Supplies from 1st February 2016 Certain UK clients have asked me to explain the VAT rule changes for UK wholesale telecommunications supplies, and hopefully this blog will do that.  From 1st February 2016, providers of wholesale telecommunications services in the UK will no longer apply VAT […]

Katherine EvansSenior Partner, Mirkwood Evans Vincent

Major Differences When Litigating Under Common Law Or Civil Law

Many clients, and even lawyers, assume that litigation, particularly in Western or European jurisdictions, will be broadly similar.  However this is far from true and there are many significant differences in approach between Common Law jurisdictions and those under Civil Law. Disclosure This is perhaps the most significant difference.  Common Law systems require substantial disclosure […]

Howard ColmanManaging Partner, Colman Coyle