My business is facing financial hardship – what duties do I owe as a director and what should I be doing to best support the company. Jim Truscott, Partner of the Corporate Team at Beyond Law Group’s specialist corporate and commercial practice, Beyond Corporate, offers his practical guidance in his latest Ask The Expert feature here…
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- Do I need a Shareholders Agreement, and what should go in it?
- Incentivising employees – are share based arrangements right for me?
- How do I sell my business?
- How to buy a business?
- How to manage a deal so it doesn’t cost the earth and doesn’t get delayed?
- What does the relationship with my private equity house look like?
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- Limitation of liability: how do I decide the liability cap/what is a sufficient liability cap?
- Reasonable or best endeavours: what is the difference?
- Does Brexit affect my GDPR compliance requirements?
- Supply Agreements: whose terms and conditions apply?
- How can I transfer my IP rights to someone else?
- What is a material breach of a contract and how can I ensure I’m protected against this?
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- I need to share confidential information: how can I ensure it stays secret?
- Deed or contract under hand: which do I need?
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- What to do when tenants don’t pay the rent?
- Investment property – what are yields and how can you boost your yield return?
- What does “good” look like for landlords
- What does “good” look like for tenants?
- What are dilapidations and how are they managed?
- What are they and why use conditional contracts?
- How do Options work on property transactions?
- Joint Ventures and Land Promotion Agreements – What are they and how do they work?
- How to structure and fund mixed use developments
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- How do I respond to a grievance?
- Is it safe to dismiss someone on sick leave?
- How do I respond to a flexible working request?
- How do I respond to a Tribunal claim ?
- Is it okay to dismiss someone who has not been with the business for more than two years?
- Do I have to use Occupational Health?
- How do I deal with an employee who has mental health problems?
- How much sickness absence is too much?
- What is included in a Contract of Employment?
- What is a Settlement Agreement
- What is an off the record chat
- How do you make somebody redundant?
- What is unfair dismissal and how to avoid it
- What is whistleblowing?
- How much can you get for unfair dismissal?
- How do you deal with workplace bullying
- Do I need a Solicitor?
- If I use an HR consultant will everything be confidential. Can we talk openly with our HR advisers?
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- Can I resolve a dispute without going to Court?
- Can I transfer my house or assets to avoid creditors or bankruptcy?
- How can I keep my legal fees to a minimum?
- How do I get rid of a director using litigation?
- How do I sue someone?
- I have received a judgment, what are my options?
- I’m being treated unfairly as a shareholder, what can I do?
- I have received a Statutory Demand, what should I do?
- What steps/milestones are involved in litigation?
- What to do if someone doesn’t pay you as a contractor?
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