The last two years have seen significant developments and unexpected turns in the financial restructuring market. The impact of the Covid pandemic precipitated an immediate and significant uptick in the level of corporates facing underperformance and distress, only to be followed in 2021 by an incredibly ‘hot’ financing market and significant drop-off in corporate default …
I have been advising employers and senior executives on whistleblowing issues for over 20 years. In fact, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (‘PIDA’) came into force just as I qualified. In recent years, we’ve seen whistleblowing claims get significant global media coverage, and whistleblowers putting the spotlight on a wide range of illegal and …
In 2019, I felt compelled to launch a podcast that went beyond case updates and tackled some of the increasingly complex and challenging issues that HR and legal teams are facing. At the time, the media was aflush with issues such as the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the #MeToo movement and LGBTQ+ rights and this was …
Cyber risk is a major threat to all businesses, irrespective of size, brand or industry. Over recent years, and particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, the threat of a cyber-attack has increased significantly. There is a growing prevalence of ransomware being deployed across all business types and sectors. With the increased regulation of data on a …
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What types of work are you seeing at the moment in reputation management? Have there been any changes post-pandemic? A lot of the work we’re doing at the moment, particularly with corporates and their senior leadership team, is about building resilience into their online profiles – so both the corporate profile and the individuals’ profiles. …
What are the major pain points that you have experienced as GC when dealing with legal disputes? Dealing with claims against an organisation is a huge drain on resources for any team. Linking to the 80:20 principle, you don’t want to be devoting 80% of your resources to firefighting something that may be worth less …
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For personal injury (PI) practitioners, dynamism is one of the features which makes this such a fulfilling field to work in. The work follows a constant ebb and flow of patterns and trends – from the boom and wane of asbestos-related cases, to the rapid spike in noise-induced hearing loss claims, to the recent resurgence …
For several years, employers have been urged to do more to look after the mental health of their workforce. Even before the pandemic, in January 2019, mental health at work was a primary discussion topic at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting accompanied by huge estimations of the financial impact, globally, in terms of lost …
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The new year is a good time to reflect, and as Seladore Legal enters 2022 at frenetic pace – having concluded a trial in early December 2021, and another due to start in early February – it occurs to me: has there ever been a better time to be practising complex commercial litigation, and in …
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Crypto currencies have been around since 2009, with Bitcoin believed to be the first ever created. It is now thought that about 5% of the UK population (Broker Chooser) have a crypto currency asset, the highest level of investment in Europe.