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What is to be done when a company falls into paralysing deadlock, with equal shareholders unable to agree about anything? A judge addressed that issue in a case concerning a...
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Minority shareholders may have limited managerial influence but they are very far from powerless and have rights that must be respected. The High Court made that point in coming to...
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In public procurement exercises, the tricky business of uploading bids to e-tendering sites can be rendered more hazardous by leaving it to the last moment. In a case on point,...
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Tough sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have left many Russian-owned companies in a state of zombie-like paralysis. However, as a High Court ruling showed, insolvency practitioners...
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When life partners are in business together, they all too frequently pay scant regard to the legal requirements involved in running a company. As a High Court ruling showed, however,...
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If you were to sell a work of art on the strength of professional advice only to see it sold on soon afterwards for a very much higher price, you...
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