Osborne Clarke's best legal reads of the week: May 18 - 22
Published on 22nd May 2015
This week, we bring you a blog post from our very own International CEO Simon Beswick, the latest edition of our quoted company legal update and a great piece on the upcoming PSC Register by Training and Know-how Lawyer Dipika Keen for The Times Law Section. Also popular on social networks this week is a construction blog post, dealing with the dangers of imprecise drafting of warranty terms within construction contracts, and a write up of our recent Real Estate event with Welbeck, by Head of Brand and Communications Simon Marshall.
Osborne
Clarke has been placed fifth in Experian’s May transactions review for
European legal advisers. International CEO Simon Beswick wrote a
LinkedIn blog post, which has already received over 450 views. Check it
out here.
Click here to
read the latest edition of Osborne Clarke’s monthly quoted company
legal and regulatory news update. Register for the monthly updates here.
The
recent Court of Appeal case of MT Hojgaard A/S v (1) E.ON Climate and
Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Limited and (2) E.ON Climate and
Renewables UK Robin Rigg West Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 407 highlight just
how careful companies must be when drafting warranties in construction
contracts. Read it here.
Training and Know-how Lawyer Dipika Keen wrote an article for the Law section of The Times, exploring just how the under-the-radar PSC Register will affect divorce cases. If you want to learn more about just what the PSC Register entails and how it will impact companies, click here to see the dedicated PSC hub we’ve created.
This week, Osborne Clarke co-hosted a lively and well-attended debate with Welbeck, a leading real estate developer and investor. In his blog post, Simon Marshall, Head of Brand and Communications, highlights some of the best comments to come out from the debate – “Instead of greenbelt, can we call it the gastric band?” Read it here.
