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5 key considerations when entering into a loan agreement
15 July 2024Lending agreements can be quite restrictive on borrowers. If your business is entering into a loan agreement, this article outlines some key considerations for borrowers.
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Financial support for SMEs: The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)
06 May 2020Government-backed loans of up to £5 million to small and medium businesses
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Financial support for SMEs: the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)
04 May 2020100% Government-backed loans of up to £50,000 for small and medium businesses
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Her Majesty’s Government enters the VC market
24 April 2020The UK Government is now to become the latest VC to provide finance to start-ups, but what are the terms of this support? Is this finance likely to be useful or are those terms overly punitive? Will this impact on the terms available from existing investors? We analyse this below.
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Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS)
22 April 2020The Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) opened on Monday 20 April 2020. It provides financial support to mid-sized and larger UK businesses across the UK that are losing revenue, and seeing their cashflow disrupted, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Government announces new £250m ‘Future Fund’ to support start-ups and growth companies
20 April 2020Details were published today, 20 April 2020, of the Government’s plan to make investments in growth companies hit by the coronavirus and the drastic reduction in venture capital investment.
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Government announces the new Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS)
07 April 2020On 3 April 2020, the Government announced a new loan scheme to provide support for large businesses.
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Convertible loan notes and/or advance subscription agreements as a source of emergency funding: FAQs
07 April 2020Convertible loan notes and advance subscription agreements are typically used as alternatives to equity fundraising by growth companies or more established businesses looking for short term financing to get them to their next equity round (so-called “bridge financing”)
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Expansion of HMRC’s “Time to Pay” Arrangements during the Covid-19 Outbreak
27 March 2020Due to the immediate and stark effect that the Covid-19 outbreak is having on a lot of businesses, the Government has reminded everyone that it often reaches arrangements with businesses in financial distress for deferred payment of their tax liabilities. While this facility is not new, the Government expects the demands on the service to increase dramatically and is therefore scaling up its capacity to deal with new enquiries.
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Financial support for larger firms: The COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility
26 March 2020The COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) is a quick and cost-effective way to raise working capital for those large businesses which need it.
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Reviewing your existing financing arrangements in light of COVID-19: FAQs
26 March 2020Many of our clients are concerned about the effect of the current economic climate on the financial health of their businesses. We recommend that companies should consider reviewing their existing financing documents to identify any risks of potential defaults occurring and to decide how best to proceed. We have put together the following guide to help answer the most frequently asked questions we receive on this topic.
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Social distancing and the use of electronic signatures
25 March 2020With vast numbers of people now working from home due to COVID-19 restrictions, finding more convenient methods of making binding transactions which are recorded in writing has become a priority.
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Effect of Coronavirus on financial reporting
18 March 2020The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published fresh guidance on issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Brexit – the prospective changes in company law for private and overseas companies
05 February 2020This article is to update you on, and explain the expected timing as to, the changes in company law for private and overseas companies to be brought about by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. In practice, only companies with a connection to the EEA will be impacted and the action points for them will be fairly minimal.
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Does your company use email for sending documents or information to shareholders?
22 January 2020If so, do you have the necessary consents in place?
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Brexit – the post Halloween picture as to the minor changes in company law for private and overseas companies
01 November 2019Now that we didn’t leave the EU on 31 October 2019, this article is to update you on, and explain the timing as to, the few changes in company law for private and overseas companies, to be brought about by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. In practice, only companies with a connection to the EEA will be impacted and the action points for them will be fairly minimal.
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The Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2018, one year on
07 June 2019The UK implemented legislation on 9 June 2018 bringing into force the EU Trade Secrets Directive. This article looks at the impact this legislation has had in the employment context where a claim for misuse of confidential information may now also include a statutory claim for misuse of trade secrets.
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The new 2018 QCA Corporate Governance Code for small & mid-size quoted companies
27 June 2018The Quoted Companies Alliance, the independent membership organisation that champions the interests of small to mid-size quoted companies, has recently released its revised and updated QCA Corporate Governance Code 2018.
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Brands and IP newsnotes - issue 5
27 June 2017Welcome to the 5th edition of our Brands & IP newsnotes put together to bring you the latest, and most interesting legal developments affecting intellectual property law. In this issue we cover; the potential pitfalls of social media, design by artificial intelligence, interesting trade mark applications and cases, an update on the UPC, and the importance of protecting trade secrets.