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The Exit Strategy: What Investors Look For in a Business

The Exit Strategy: What investors look for in a business

When investors sit for pitches, they expect to be told about an exit strategy. This includes a tale of future acquisition or IPO. Nowadays, these contingency plans have become more creative. Take, for example, BodeTree. In an article about creativity being a hook for investment, co-founder Chris Meyers unveiled the unconventional route he took. Continue Reading The Exit Strategy: What Investors Look For in a Business

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Cash Flow And Coronavirus Pandemic – What directors must do

Cash Flow And Coronavirus

Paul Cooper at Blake-Turner has for many years advised clients experiencing cash flow difficulties.  All too often an otherwise sound business hits a hurdle and all of a sudden it is “insolvent” because it realises it will not be able to pay certain debts as they fall due in the next few weeks and months. To describe the current…. Continue Reading Cash Flow And Coronavirus Pandemic – What directors must do

The ruling in Tyco and an Employees Travel Time to Work, Blake-Turner Solicitors

Tyco and an Employees Travel Time

The ruling in Tyco and an Employees Travel Time to Work

The recent ruling by the ECJ in the case of Federación de Servicios Privados del Sindicato Comisiones Obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL and Tyco Integrated Fire & Security Corporation Servicios SA (Case C-266/14) [2015] All ER (D) 55 (Sep) determined that the employees travel time to work count as part of their…. Continue Reading Tyco and an Employees Travel Time

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Personal Communications at work. Private or not?

Personal Communications at work. Private or not? Bărbulescu v. Romania

The recent ruling, by the ECHR, in Bărbulescu v. Romania, confirmed there was no violation of an employee’s Article 8 human right to privacy, where the employee had used his company’s internet for personal communications uses during work hours, and was consequently dismissed. Mr Bărbulescu was employed by a private…. Continue Reading Personal Communications at work. Private or not?