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Banking and finance

Lending and security 
  • Guarantees and indemnities 
  • Legal opinions 
  • Lending: bilateral and general 
  • Lending: syndicated 
  • Letters of credit and performance bonds 
  • Security 
  • Set-off and netting 
  • Subordination, priority and intercreditor 

Specialist transactions

  • Acquisition finance 
  • Aged care finance 
  • Commercial real estate finance 
  • Debt capital markets 
  • Derivatives 
  • ESG and sustainable finance 
  • Retirement village finance 
  • Securitisation and structured finance

Contracts

  • Execution formalities 
  • General contracts and boilerplate 
  • Contract law 

 

Commercial

Advertising and marketing 

  • General advertising and marketing 
  • Social media and websites 
  • Sponsorship 
  • Trade promotions 

Contract law and boilerplate

  • Agency 
  • Assignment, novation, variation and waiver 
  • Contract drafting, negotiation and management 
  • Force majeure 
  • Formation and enforceability of contracts 
  • General contracts, clauses and deeds 
  • Indemnities and liability 
  • Insurance 
  • Payment and GST 
  • Termination, frustration and breach 
  • Unfair contract terms and compliance with other laws 

Cybersecurity

  • Cyber threats 
  • Cybersecurity and risk management 
  • Security of critical infrastructure 

Data protection and privacy 

  • Data breach 
  • Data protection 
  • Data retention 
  • Employee data and monitoring 
  • Privacy 
  • Surveillance 

Distribution, logistics, manufacturing and supply chains 

  • Distribution 
  • Logistics 
  • Manufacturing and warehousing 
  • Supply chain relationships 

E-commerce 

  • Domain names 
  • Online contracts 
  • Websites 

Ethical trading 

  • Anti-bribery and corruption 
  • ESG 
  • Modern slavery

Execution 

  • Execution formalities 

Intellectual property 

  • Assignments and licensing 
  • Brand protection 
  • Copyright 
  • Designs 
  • Domain names 
  • General IP 
  • Patents 
  • Trade marks and passing off 

Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality 

  • Confidentiality 
  • Heads of agreement 
  • Trade secrets and know-how 

Supply of goods and services 

  • Procurement and tenders 
  • Supply of goods 
  • Supply of services 

Technology and outsourcing

  • Agile 
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cloud 
  • Hardware 
  • Outsourcing 
  • Software 
  • Technology contracting 

Commercial Real Estate

Conveyancing

  • Contracts and transfers
  • Conveyancing procedure
  • Electronic conveyancing
  • Off the plan

Leasing

  • Assignment, variation, surrender and termination
  • Commercial leases
  • Green leasing
  • Leases and licences
  • Retail leases

Projects and development

  • Aged care and retirement villages
  • Development
  • Options

Property practice and procedure

  • Due diligence
  • Foreign investment
  • General property resources

Finance and security

  • Mortgages and security
  • Mortgagee and receiver sale of land (NEW!)

Contracts

  • Execution formalities
  • General contracts and boilerplate
  • Contract law 

Company Law

Companies

  • Company administration and meetings
  • Company formation and constitution
  • Corporate governance
  • Directors
  • Dividends
  • Share capital
  • Shareholder activism
  • Shareholder arrangements
  • Shareholder rights and remedies
  • Voluntary winding up and deregistration
  • Whistleblowers

Collective investments

  • Managed funds
  • Trusts

Contracts

  • Execution formalities
  • General contracts and boilerplate
  • Contract law

Competition and Regulation

Competition and Consumer - General Principles

  • Application of Competition and Consumer Act
  • Compliance and training
  • Markets and market definition

Restrictive trade practices

  • Cartel conduct
  • Anti-competitive contracts, arrangements and understandings
  • Boycotts and collective bargaining
  • Misuse of market power
  • Exclusive dealing
  • Resale price maintenance
  • Mergers and acquisitions affecting competition

Australian Consumer Law

  • Misleading conduct and false representations
  • Unconscionable conduct
  • Unfair and unjust contracts
  • Unfair practices
  • Consumer transactions and guarantees
  • Product liability, safety and recalls

Procedure, enforcement and remedies

  • Authorisation, notification and exemptions
  • Investigations
  • Enforcement and remedies

Access regimes

  • Access regimes

Franchising regulation

  • Franchising

Regulation

  • Dealing with regulators
  • Financial services regulation
  • AML and CTF
  • Foreign investment
  • Privacy
  • Regulation of specific sectors
  • Data and digital markets
  • Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) 

Corporate Transactions

Acquisitions

  • Asset acquisitions
  • Due diligence: acquisitions
  • Financial assistance
  • Foreign investment
  • Members’ schemes of arrangement
  • Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality: acquisitions
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Restraints of trade
  • Share acquisitions: private
  • Takeovers

Specialist transactions

  • Joint ventures
  • Reductions of share capital
  • Reorganisations
  • Share buy-backs
  • Share schemes and incentives
  • Start-ups

Equity Capital Markets

  • Disclosure documents
  • Initial public offerings
  • Issuing equity securities: public companies

Contracts

  • Execution formalities
  • General contracts and boilerplate
  • Contract law

Dispute Resolution

Litigation practice and procedure

  • Australian judicial system
  • Litigation and dispute resolution strategy
  • Jurisdiction, legislation, time limits and immunities
  • Court claims: overview and pre-action
  • Commencement: originating process, pleadings and service
  • Relief
  • ADR and compromise
  • Costs
  • Case management
  • Interim applications
  • Disclosure
  • Privileges and confidentiality
  • Evidence
  • Trial practice
  • Judgments, orders and enforcement
  • Appeals
  • State and territory litigation practice
  • Representative proceedings
  • Social media issues in litigation
  • Litigation for in-house counsel

Specialist proceedings

  • Commercial contract claims
  • Regulatory
  • Intellectual property litigation

Corporate insolvency

  • Receivership
  • Voluntary administration
  • Deeds of company arrangement
  • Liquidation

Personal insolvency

  • Bankruptcy
  • Personal insolvency agreements

Employment

Creating and characterising working relationships

  • Foundation concepts
  • Employment status and types
  • Casual employment
  • Other workers
  • Contracts and policies

Pay, benefits and entitlements

  • National Employment Standards
  • Modern awards and enterprise agreements
  • Employee pay and benefits
  • Other worker pay arrangements
  • Transfer of business

Industrial

  • Enterprise agreement terms and bargaining
  • Industrial action and right of entry

Managing working relationships and the workplace

  • Managing work and the workplace
  • Managing grievances, conduct and fair treatment
  • Health, safety and incapacity
  • Whistleblowers
  • Privacy and surveillance

Protecting business interests

  • Confidentiality, intellectual property and conflict of interest
  • Restraints of trade

Ending working relationships

  • Redundancy
  • Termination
  • Settlement and settlement agreements

Disputes and litigation

  • FWC case management and procedure
  • Civil remedy provisions
  • Minimum entitlement and underpayment claims
  • General protections disputes
  • Enterprise agreement and industrial disputes
  • FWC dismissal disputes
  • Other FWC disputes
  • Other work-related causes of action

Discrimination at work

  • Grounds and elements
  • Case management and procedure
  • Remedies

Insolvency and Restructuring

Financially distressed businesses 

  • Directors and management
  • Employees
  • Creditors (unsecured)
  • Secured parties
  • Contracts
  • Property issues
  • Mortgagee enforcement actions NEW!
  • Voluntary deregistration
  • Restructuring transactions

Corporate insolvency

  • Receivership
  • Voluntary administration
  • Deeds of company arrangement
  • Liquidation

Personal insolvency

  • Bankruptcy
  • Debt agreements
  • Personal insolvency agreements

Corporate restructuring

  • Intra-group reorganisations
  • Restructuring transactions

Company fundamentals

  • Company formation and constitution
  • Directors
  • Managed funds
  • Trusts

Commercial and contract resources

  • Execution formalities
  • General contracts and boilerplate
  • Contract law
  • Commercial

Dispute resolution

  • Disputes and litigation resources

In-house Resource Centre

Risk and compliance

  • Dealing with key risk areas
  • Creating policies and procedures
  • Identifying and managing risk

Legal department operations and management

  • Leadership, management and personal development
  • Operations, technology and spend
  • Finding, keeping and motivating talent
  • Sourcing and managing legal services
  • Wellbeing

Company secretarial

  • Corporate governance
  • Company meetings
  • Directors

Training centre

  • Training the business
  • Training the legal team

Toolkits

  • Legal department operations and management
  • Mental health and wellbeing for lawyers
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Managing the in-house legal function
  • Company secretarial matters
  • Managing employees
  • Risk and compliance centre
  • Continuing professional development (CPD)
  • Training the legal team
  • Training the business
  • Contract administration and management
  • Day-to-day matters
  • Managing disputes and litigation
  • Major projects and corporate transactions
  • New to in-house
  • Inside In-house

United Kingdom

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Agriculture & rural land

  • Agricultural finance
  • Buying and selling rural land
  • Easements, covenants and other third party rights
  • Equestrian
  • EU agriculture
  • Farm partnerships and farming agreements
  • Rural environmental issues
  • Rural planning issues
  • Sporting rights
  • Tax planning for agriculture and landed estates

Leases, tenancies and licences

  • Agricultural holdings
  • Agricultural licences
  • Farm business tenancies
  • Farm dwellings

Farming policy

  • UK agricultural policy
  • Farm payments and capital grants
  • Environmental land management schemes
  • Forestry

Related practice areas

  • Environment
  • Planning
  • Private Client
  • Property
  • Tax

Collections

  • Useful tax materials produced by other services

Arbitration

Institutional and Ad Hoc Arbitration

  • Institutional and Ad-hoc Arbitration: General
  • AAA/ICDR
  • ICC
  • LCIA
  • SCC
  • UNCITRAL
  • ICSID
  • CIETAC
  • HKIAC
  • SIAC

Drafting arbitration clauses

  • Arbitration agreements
  • Conflicts of law issues

Arbitration procedure

  • National arbitration legislation
  • Costs and funding
  • Interim measures
  • Jurisdictional issues
  • Arbitrators and appointments
  • Applications to court
  • Commencing arbitration
  • Procedure and evidence
  • Multi party arbitration
  • Remedies

Award and post-award

  • Arbitral awards and challenges
  • Enforcement

Specialist arbitration

  • Investment treaty arbitration
  • Commodities arbitration
  • Maritime arbitration
  • Energy arbitration
  • Financial services arbitration
  • Construction arbitration
  • Insurance and reinsurance arbitration

Business Crime & Investigations

Criminal Investigation

  • Investigation powers 
  • Privilege 
  • Arrest and bail 
  • Search and seizure 
  • Interviews 
  • Decision to charge or alternative disposal

Prosecution, trial and appeal 

  • Corporate criminal liability
  • Criminal liability
  • Criminal procedure
  • Criminal evidence
  • Sentencing and orders on conviction
  • Confiscation, restraint and forfeiture
  • Criminal appeal
  • Judicial review

Extradition and mutual legal assistance

  • Extradition
  • Mutual legal assistance

Business crime offences

  • Bribery
  • Cartel 
  • Companies Act and Insolvency Act 
  • Consumer protection
  • Corporate manslaughter & health and safety
  • Data protection
  • Environmental
  • Financial services 
  • Fraud, forgery and theft
  • Modern Slavery
  • Money laundering 
  • Offences prosecuted by local authorities 
  • Tax evasion

Sanctions

  • Sanctions and export control

Prosecuting authorities’ investigation and prosecution powers

  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • CPS and NCA
  • Environment Agency
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • HM Revenue and Customs
  • Insolvency Service
  • Local Authority
  • Pensions Regulator 
  • Serious Fraud Office

Capital markets

Equity capital markets

  • Preparing a company for IPO
  • Main Market IPOs and listings 
  • AIM IPOs and admissions 
  • Secondary issues 
  • Prospectuses: ECM 
  • Sponsors, nomads and other parties 

Debt capital markets 

  • Types of debt securities 
  • Documenting DCM transactions 
  • Prospectuses: DCM 
  • Listing: DCM • Trustees, paying agents and other parties 

Related transactions 

  • Derivatives
  • Structured finance 

Market regulation

  • Market abuse and market conduct
  • Disclosure and transparency
  • Financial promotion 
  • Other capital markets regulation 

Related practice areas 

  • Corporate 
  • Finance 
  • Financial Services

Commercial

  • Advertising and marketing
  • Agency
  • Bailment and leasing 
  • Confidentiality
  • Consumer
  • Distribution
  • E-commerce
  • ESG and sustainability
  • Franchising
  • General commercial
  • General contract and boilerplate
  • International trade • 
  • Outsourcing • 
  • Preliminary agreements
  • Product liability and safety
  • Public procurement
  • Supply of goods and services
  • Tort
  • Trade finance 

Collections

  • Scots law

Competition

EU

  • Practice notes 
  • Case tracker tables 
  • Checklists 
  • Flowcharts 
  • Standard documents 
  • Matter Maps 
  • Video and audio 
  • Toolkits 

UK

  • Practice notes 
  • Case tracker tables 
  • Checklists 
  • Flowcharts 
  • Standard documents 
  • Matter Maps 
  • Video and audio 
  • Toolkits

Construction

Contracts and professional appointments

  • Building contracts and contractors
  • Engineering contracts
  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Insurance
  • International construction contracts
  • Professional appointments and liabilities

Dispute resolution

  • Adjudication
  • ADR
  • Arbitration
  • Litigation

Finance

  • Real estate finance and investment

Property development

  • Collateral warranties and third parties
  • Development documents
  • Regeneration
  • Sustainability and environment

Procurement

  • Procurement
  • Public procurement

Regulation and taxation

  • Health and safety
  • Insolvency
  • Statutory liabilities: land and buildings
  • Taxation

Related sectors

  • Energy
  • Heavy Industry
  • Insurers & Reinsurers

Corporate

Company law

  • Company administration and meetings
  • Company formation and constitution
  • Corporate governance
  • Directors
  • ESG and sustainability
  • Financial reporting
  • Share capital: structure, allotment and transfers
  • Shareholder rights and remedies

Advising issuers

  • Main Market ongoing obligations
  • AIM ongoing obligations
  • Disclosure and transparency
  • Prospectuses
  • Market abuse and market conduct

Corporate transactions

  • Acquisitions: auctions
  • Asset acquisitions
  • Share acquisitions: private
  • Public mergers & acquisitions
  • Corporate: Joint ventures
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Reorganisations, schemes and demergers
  • Returns of value

Partnerships

  • Partnership and LLPs

General

  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Financial promotion

Collections

  • For company secretaries
  • Scots law resource centre

Related practice areas

  • Capital Markets

Data protection

  • Compliance
  • Cookies
  • Data security
  • Data sharing
  • Direct marketing
  • Employee data and monitoring
  • GDPR and data protection reform
  • Exporting personal data
  • General
  • Rights of data subjects
  • Sanctions and remedies
  • Surveillance
  • Technology
  • Transactions

Related practice areas

  • IP & IT
  • Media & Telecoms

Dispute Resolution

Litigation procedure

  • Pre-action conduct
  • Funding
  • Jurisdiction and cross-border
  • Limitation
  • Security for costs
  • Injunctive relief
  • Starting a claim
  • Service
  • Responding to a claim
  • Statements of case
  • Interim applications
  • Early determination
  • Case management
  • Disclosure
  • Evidence
  • Privilege
  • Experts
  • Settlement and Part 36
  • Trial
  • Costs
  • Appeals
  • Enforcement

ADR

  • Adjudication
  • Early neutral evaluation
  • Expert determination
  • Mediation

Contract, tort and remedies

  • Dispute resolution clauses
  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Remedies
  • Tort

Specialist proceedings

  • Lower value claims
  • Insolvency litigation
  • Insurance litigation
  • Judicial review

Related practice areas

  • Arbitration
  • Property Litigation
  • Scots law
  • Commercial

Employment

Commencing employment

  • Contracts of employment
  • Recruitment

Employment status and types of working

  • Agency workers
  • Apprentices
  • Atypical working
  • Directors
  • Employment status and self-employment
  • Financial services employees
  • Partnerships and LLPs

ESG in employment

  • ESG and sustainability

Immigration and cross-border

  • Cross-border
  • Immigration

Equality and human rights

  • Discrimination
  • Equal pay
  • Human rights and modern slavery

Managing working relationships

  • Discipline and performance management
  • Employee data protection
  • Families and pregnancy
  • Grievances
  • Policies and procedures
  • Sickness and incapacity
  • Working time and time off

Pay and benefits

  • Pay and benefits
  • Taxation

Trade unions and consultation

  • Trade unions
  • Workforce engagement

Whistleblowing

  • Whistleblowing

Terminating the employment relationship

  • Redundancy and business reorganisation
  • Termination and settlement
  • Unfair dismissal

Protecting business interests

  • Restraint of trade, confidentiality and IP

Corporate transactions

  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Transfer of shares
  • Transfer of undertakings

Tribunals and civil litigation

  • Civil litigation
  • Employment tribunals
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal

Collections

  • For discrimination lawyers
  • For immigration lawyers
  • Scots law

Environment

  • Access to environmental information
  • Air pollution
  • Chemicals and hazardous substances
  • Climate change
  • Energy: environmental issues
  • Energy efficiency
  • Enforcement and litigation procedure
  • Environmental consultants
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Environmental management and reporting
  • Environmental permitting
  • Environmental taxes
  • ESG and sustainability
  • General environment
  • Habitats, wildlife and biodiversity
  • Health and safety: environmental issues
  • Insurance
  • Land contamination
  • Nuclear and radioactive substances
  • Nuisance and noise control
  • Planning: environmental issues
  • Producer responsibility
  • Warranties, indemnities and transaction issues
  • Waste
  • Water, marine and flooding

Related practice areas

  • Agriculture & Rural Land
  • Business Crime & Investigations
  • Planning

Related sectors

  • Energy
  • Heavy Industry

Family

  • Nuptial agreements and relationship planning
  • Cohabitation
  • Family ADR
  • Divorce and dissolution of civil partnership
  • Financial remedies: on divorce or dissolution
  • Financial remedies: preservation of assets
  • Children law: financial support
  • Children law: private
  • Children law: public
  • Domestic violence and personal protection
  • International aspects of family law

General

  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Legal concepts

Finance

Lending and security

  • Lending: general
  • Guarantees
  • Security and quasi security
  • ESG and sustainability

Specialist transactions

  • Acquisition finance
  • Asset finance
  • Derivatives
  • Islamic finance
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Structured finance
  • Trade finance

Related practice areas

  • Capital Markets

Related sectors

  • Financial Institutions: Banks
  • Financial Institutions: Insurers & Reinsurers

Financial Services

  • Authorisation
  • Banking
  • Client assets
  • Complaints and redress
  • Conduct of business
  • Consumer credit
  • ESG and sustainability
  • Financial crime
  • Financial promotion and marketing
  • FinTech and digital assets
  • Individual accountability
  • Insurance
  • Investigations and enforcement
  • Investment funds and asset management
  • Market conduct
  • Mortgages and home finance
  • Payment services
  • Personal pensions
  • Prudential regulation
  • Regulated activities
  • Regulatory regime
  • Remuneration
  • Resolution and compensation
  • Securities, markets and investments
  • Systems and controls
  • Training and competence

Related topics

  • Listing, prospectus, disclosure and transparency rules

Related sector

  • Banks Sector
  • Insurers & Reinsurers Sector

IP & IT

Intellectual property

  • Confidentiality
  • Copyright
  • Databases
  • Designs
  • General IP
  • Passing off
  • Patents
  • Research and development
  • Trade marks

IT and information law

  • Freedom of information
  • Information technology

Related practice areas

  • Data Protection
  • Media & Telecoms

Related sector

  • Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT)

Local Government

Children

  • Children's services
  • Education

Health

  • Adult social services
  • Health
  • Mental capacity

Housing

  • Right to buy
  • Social housing

Information law

  • Access to environmental information
  • Freedom of information

Local government

  • Decision-making
  • Enforcement
  • Governance and powers
  • Judicial review
  • Partnership working

Public procurement

  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Outsourcing
  • PFI/PPP
  • Public procurement
  • Public sector pensions
  • State aid
  • TUPE

Related practice areas

  • Data Protection
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Planning
  • Public Law

Media & Telecoms

  • Defamation
  • Film
  • General media
  • Internet
  • Music
  • Privacy
  • Social media
  • Telecoms
  • TV

Related practice areas

  • Data Protection
  • IP & IT

Related sector

  • Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT)

Pensions

Occupational and personal pensions

  • Administering pension schemes
  • Auto-enrolment and NEST
  • Contracting-out
  • Cross-border
  • DC pension schemes
  • Discrimination
  • Early leavers
  • Employer debt
  • Employers
  • ESG and sustainability
  • Funding and investment
  • General pensions
  • Members and benefits
  • Pension Protection Fund
  • Pension sharing
  • Pensions and employment
  • Pensions Regulator
  • Policy and reform
  • Public sector pensions
  • Sales and acquisitions
  • Scheme documents
  • Scheme restructurings and mergers
  • Tax and accounting
  • Trustees
  • Winding-up and insolvency

Pensions disputes

  • Court proceedings
  • Ombudsmen and tribunals
  • Internal dispute resolution procedures
  • Challenging the Pensions Regulator
  • Common issues in disputes

Collections and Multi-jurisdictional

  • For discrimination lawyers
  • Pensions Global Guide

Planning

Planning Process

  • Planning applications
  • Planning permission
  • Planning obligations and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
  • Use classes orders
  • Permitted development

Appeals

  • Appeals
  • Judicial review
  • Local Government Ombudsman

Enforcement

  • Enforcement

Special planning controls

  • Advertisements
  • Conservation areas
  •  Planning: Listed buildings
  • Nationally significant projects (NSIPs and DNS)
  • Protected Trees
  • Scheduled monuments

Related topics

  • Compulsory purchase and appropriation
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Highways
  • Policy framework

Related sector

  • Heavy Industry

Private Client

  • Lifetime planning
  • Wills
  • Mental capacity
  • After death
  • Trusts
  • Owner-managed businesses
  • International individuals
  • Charities
  • Contentious private client

General

  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Legal concepts

Related practice areas

  • Family
  • Tax
  • Share Schemes & Incentives
  • Practice Compliance & Management
  • Property

Collections

  • Advising smaller businesses
  • For charity lawyers
  • For immigration lawyers
  • Scots law

Property

Conveying property

  • Title issues
  • Common land, town and village greens
  • Easements, covenants and other third party rights
  • Conveyancing procedure
  • Contracts and transfers
  • Land registration
  • Charity transactions
  • Insolvency

Dealing with leasehold land

  • Assignments, variations, surrenders and termination
  • Business tenancies (non-contentious)
  • Estate management and licences
  • Guarantees
  • Leases and licences to occupy
  • Residential tenancies

Development

  • Development
  • Options, pre-emptions and overage

Finance and security

  • Corporate support
  • Mortgages and security
  • Real estate finance and investment
  • Tax

Energy and sustainability

  • Energy and buildings
  • Sustainability
  • Utilities

Regulatory compliance

  • Insurance
  • Professional ethics and regulation
  • Statutory liabilities

Collections

  • Scots law

Related practice areas

  • Agriculture & Rural Land
  • Planning
  • Property Litigation

Property Litigation

Landlord and tenant

  • Breach of lease covenants
  • Break notices
  • Business tenancies (contentious)
  • Dilapidations
  • Forfeiture
  • Rent, non-payment of rent and rent review
  • Service charges

Residential landlord and tenant

  • Assured shorthold tenancies
  • Enfranchisement and lease extensions
  • Right of first refusal
  • Tenancy deposit schemes

Real property

  • Party walls
  • Rights of light

Enforcement

  • Enforcement and remedies
  • Possession of land and buildings
  • Trespass

Related topics

  • CPR Procedure

Related practice areas

  • Property
  • Dispute Resolution

Public Law

Administrative and constitutional law

  • Executive and legislative powers
  • Exercising statutory powers
  • Judicial review
  • Statutory construction

Equality and human rights

  • Equality
  • Human rights

Information law

  • Access to environmental information
  • Freedom of information

Public procurement

  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Outsourcing
  • PFI/PPP
  • Public procurement
  • Public sector pensions
  • State aid
  • TUPE

Related practice areas

  • Data Protection
  • EU Law
  • Local Government

Restructuring & Insolvency

Financially distressed businesses

  • Court proceedings
  • Directors and employees
  • Pensions issues
  • Property issues
  • Restructuring and insolvency transactions
  • Reviewable transactions
  • Tax issues

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

  • Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

Corporate insolvency

  • Administration
  • Company voluntary arrangements
  • Dissolution, strike off and restoration
  • Liquidation
  • Receivership
  • Schemes of arrangement

Individual Insolvency

  • Bankruptcy and debt relief orders
  • Individual voluntary arrangements
  • Partnerships and LLPs

Cross-border insolvency

  • Cross-border insolvency

Office holders

  • Policy and reform
  • Regulation, powers and duties of insolvency practitioners

Share Schemes & Incentives

Share schemes

  • EMI options
  • CSOP/SAYE/SIPs
  • Taxable share schemes and agreements
  • Accounting, finance and scheme design

Employee benefit trusts

  • Employee benefit trusts

Other incentive arrangements

  • Cash-based employee incentive schemes

Tax and NICs

  • Tax and NICs

Company law, governance and regulatory

  • Company law and corporate governance
  • Regulatory matters

Corporate transactions

  • Corporate transactions

Employment law issues

  • Employment law issues

General

  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Legal concepts

Tax

Companies and groups

  • Companies and groups

Corporate transactions

  • Asset acquisitions
  • Equity capital markets
  • Joint ventures
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Share acquisitions

Cross-border

  • Cross-border

Disputes and anti-avoidance

  • Anti-avoidance
  • Disputes and investigations

Employment

  • Cross-border: Employment
  • Employment income, pensions and benefits
  • Employment status and self-employment
  • National Insurance Contributions
  • Termination of employment

Energy and environment

  • Energy and environment

Finance

  • Asset finance
  • Cross-border: finance
  • Debt capital markets
  • Islamic finance
  • Lending: general
  • Structured finance & derivatives

Investment funds

  • Investment funds and asset management

IP and IT

  • IP and IT

Partnerships and OMBs

  • Owner-managed businesses
  • Partnerships an LLPs

Property

  • Development and construction
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Real estate finance and investment
  • Stamp duty land tax

Reorganisations and distributions

  • Dividends and distributions
  • Reorganisations, schemes and demergers
  • Buybacks and other returns of value

Restructuring and insolvency

  • Restructuring and insolvency

Stamp duty and SDRT

  • Stamp duty and SDRT

VAT and Customs

  • General VAT and administration
  • VAT on property and construction
  • VAT: corporates and corporate transactions
  • Cross-border: VAT
  • Customs

General

  • Professional ethics and regulation
  • Taxes, clearances and concepts 
  • General contract and boilerplate
  • Legal concepts

Practice Compliance & Management

Practice Compliance

  • AML and financial crime prevention
  • Client and matter management
  • Claims, complaints and insurances
  • Conflicts, confidentiality, privilege
  • Costs and funding
  • Data, information and cyber security
  • Risk management, governance and ethics
  • SRA accounts
  • SRA regulation and authorisation

Practice Management

  • Legal operations, technology and people management
  • Legal business M&A and reorganisations
  • Lexcel and other standards

United States

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Antitrust

  • Antitrust Compliance
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Cartels
  • General Antitrust
  • Horizontal Agreements
  • Merger Control
  • Unilateral Conduct
  • Vertical Agreements

Arbitration

  • Arbitral Awards & Challenges
  • Arbitration Agreements
  • Arbitrators & Appointments
  • Commencing an Arbitration
  • Conflicts of Law Issues
  • Costs & Funding
  • Enforcement
  • Institutional & Ad-Hoc Arbitration
  • Interim Measures
  • Investment Treaty Arbitration
  • Jurisdictional Issues
  • Multiparty Arbitration
  • Procedure & Evidence
  • Remedies

Bankruptcy & Restructuring

  • Bankruptcy Committees
  • Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Chapter 11: Commencing a Case
  • Chapter 11: Case Administration
  • Chapter 11: Exiting a Case
  • Creditor and Inter-Creditor Issues in Bankruptcy
  • Cross-Border: Chapter 15
  • Individual Bankruptcy
  • Municipal Bankruptcy: Chapter 9
  • Out-of-Court Restructuring
  • Prepacks in Bankruptcy
  • Purchasing Distressed Assets and Claims in Bankruptcy
  • Small Business Bankruptcy
  • General Bankruptcy

Capital Markets & Corporate Governance

  • Broker-Dealer & Investment Adviser
  • Corporate Governance & Continuous Disclosure
  • Market Regulation
  • Non-US Issuers
  • Registered Offerings
  • Unregistered Offerings

Commercial Transactions

  • Advertising & Marketing
  • Agency, Distribution & Franchising
  • Bribery & Corruption
  • Confidentiality
  • Consumer
  • General Contract & Boilerplate
  • Insurance Claims & Coverage
  • International Trade & Customs
  • Joint Ventures
  • Outsourcing
  • Supply of Goods & Services
  • General Commercial

Corporate and M&A

  • Corporations
  • Limited Liability Companies
  • Joint Ventures
  • Private Equity
  • Private M&A
  • Public M&A
  • Tax

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

  • Data Privacy Laws & Frameworks
  • Advertising, Direct Marketing & Commercial Messages
  • Biometrics
  • Children & Students
  • Cybersecurity & Data Security
  • Data Breach Notification
  • Data Sharing & Transfers
  • Data Subject Rights
  • Employee Privacy & Workplace Monitoring
  • Financial Services & Insurance
  • Health & Medical
  • Litigation & Enforcement
  • Online, Telecommunications & Media
  • Policies & Program Management
  • Surveillance
  • Transactions, Contracting & Vendor Management

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

  • Executive Compensation
  • Retirement Plans
  • Health & Welfare Plans
  • Equity Compensation
  • Employee Benefit Plans: Administration & Compliance
  • Employee Benefit Plans & the Employment Relationship

Finance

  • Acquisition Finance
  • Asset-Based Lending
  • Bankruptcy in Finance
  • Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets
  • Debt Capital Markets
  • Guaranties
  • Islamic Finance
  • Lending: General
  • Project Finance & Development
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Regulatory: Finance
  • Securitization & Structured Finance
  • Security
  • Swaps & Derivatives
  • Trade Finance

Government Practice: Federal

  • Information Law
  • Labor & Employment
  • Procurement & Fiscal Law
  • General Federal Practice

Government Practice: State & Local

  • Liability & Litigation
  • Government Administration
  • Public Finance & Economic Development
  • Regulations & Zoning

Health Care

  • Academic Medical Centers - NEW!
  • Clinical Trials & Research
  • Fraud, Abuse & Compliance
  • General Health Care
  • Health Care Entity Formation & Governance
  • Managed Care & Health Care Delivery Organizations
  • Patient Privacy & Security
  • Payment & Reimbursement
  • Physicians & Medical Staff

Intellectual Property & Technology

  • Copyright
  • Entertainment
  • General IP
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • IP & IT in Corporate Transactions
  • Patent Counseling & Transactions
  • Patent Litigation
  • Right of Publicity
  • Trademarks
  • Trade Secrets

Labor & Employment

  • Contracts
  • Corporate Transactions & Bankruptcy
  • Discipline & Internal Investigations
  • Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
  • Employee Data, Monitoring & Privacy
  • Employment Litigation
  • Health & Safety
  • Immigration
  • Leave Law
  • Policies & Procedures
  • Recruitment & Hiring
  • Restrictive Covenants, Confidentiality & IP
  • Termination, Layoffs & Plant Closings
  • Unions
  • Wage & Hour Law

Litigation

Civil Practice & Procedure

  • Commencement & Pleadings
  • Removal
  • Discovery & Evidence
  • Motions
  • Trial & Post-Trial
  • Judgment
  • Appeals
  • Arbitration & ADR (US)
  • Class Actions
  • General Litigation

Specialist Litigation

  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Employment Litigation
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Securities Litigation & Enforcement
  • White Collar Crime & Investigations

Real Estate

  • Commercial Finance
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Commercial Ownership
  • Residential Finance
  • Residential Leasing
  • Residential Ownership
  • Construction
  • Real Estate in Corporate Transactions

Trusts & Estates

  • Wills
  • Revocable Trusts
  • Irrevocable Trusts
  • Probate & Estate Administration
  • Trust Administration
  • Taxation of Trusts & Estates
  • Special Needs Planning
  • Charitable Planning
  • Powers of Attorney for Property
  • Health Care Planning
  • General Trusts & Estates

Cross-Practice Collections: Startups & Small Businesses

  • Formation & Starting Up
  • Capital Raising & Financing
  • Corporate Governance, Compliance & Housekeeping
  • Company Policies
  • Employees, Consultants & Other Service Providers
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Commercial Transactions
  • Real Estate
  • Disputes
  • Liquidity & Exit Events
  • Dissolution & Winding Up

Canada

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Capital Markets & Securities

  • Prospectus Offerings
  • Exempt Offerings
  • Debt Capital Markets
  • Corporate Governance and Continuous Disclosure
  • Equity Compensation
  • Market Regulation

Commercial Real Estate

  • Acquisitions 
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Commercial Real Estate Financing
  • Conveyancing 
  • Development 
  • Distressed Commercial Real Estate
  • Easements and Restrictive Covenants
  • Ownership

Commercial Transactions

  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Agency and Distribution
  • Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements
  • E-Commerce and Technology
  • General Contract and Boilerplate
  • Outsourcing
  • Privacy and Data Security
  • Supply of Goods and Services
  • IP in Corporate Transactions

Intellectual Property

  • Copyright
  •  IP in Corporate Transactions
  • IP Licensing
  • General IP
  • Patents
  • Trademarks

Competition

  • General Competition Law
  • Competition Law Compliance
  • Competition Law Litigation
  • Conspiracy (Cartels)
  • Unilateral Conduct
  • Vertical Agreements
  • Merger Control
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Investment Canada Act

Corporate and M&A

  • Business Corporations
  • Emerging Corporations
  • Joint Ventures
  • Non-Profit Corporations
  • Partnerships
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Private M&A
  • Public M&A
  • Droit des sociétés

Employment

Commencing the Working Relationship
  • Employment Contracts
  • Executives, Officers & Directors
  • Hiring & Recruitment
  • Independent Contractors

Managing the Working Relationship

  • Attendance, Performance & Discipline
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Employee Privacy
  • Health & Safety
  • Internal Investigations
  • Policies & Training
  • Unionized Workplaces
  • Working Time & Time Off

Ending the Working Relationship

  • Layoffs
  • Termination

Equality

  • Accessibility
  • Harassment & Violence
  • Human Rights

Protecting Business Interests

  • Restrictive Covenants, Confidentiality & IP

Corporate Transactions

  • Insolvency & the Workplace
  • Sale of Business

Litigation

  • Employment Litigation

Finance

  • Acquisition Finance
  • Asset-Based Lending
  • Commercial and Small Business Lending
  • Commercial Real Estate Financing
  • Corporate Lending
  • Debt Capital Markets
  • Default and Enforcement
  • DIP (Interim) Financing
  • Guarantees
  • Opinions
  • Priorities
  • Swaps and Derivatives
  • Syndicated Loans
  • Taking Security in Collateral
  • Technology Debt Financing
  • Trade Finance

Insolvency & Restructuring

  • Bankruptcy
  • BIA Proposals
  • CCAA Proceedings
  • Receiverships
  • Corporate Insolvency
  • Creditor and Priority Issues
  • Default and Enforcement
  • Directors and Employees

Legal Operations & Professional Development

  • Legal Operations
  • Professional Development

Litigation: Corporate & Commercial

  • Pre-Pleading
  • Commencing an Action
  • Responding to a Claim
  • Service and Filing
  • Discovery
  • Mediation and Settlement
  • Evidence
  • Motions and Chambers Applications
  • Trial
  • Originating Applications and Petitions
  • Orders and Judgments
  • Costs
  • Appeals
  • Corporate Litigation
  • Torts and Contract Disputes
  • Construction Litigation
  • Substantive Law
  • International Arbitration