Moorcrofts is delighted to announce a new senior appointment in its corporate team, as associate Will Pearce becomes partner. Will joined the firm in 2012 and since then has had high levels of exposure to complex matters; predominantly working alongside…
Starting up a new company can be an exciting opportunity and doing so is very popular in the UK. Between October and December 2017, there were 146,852 company incorporations registered with Companies House, in fact, as quoted in the Financial…
Growth share schemes are an effective way to reward employees, and drive performance and desired company behaviours. Growth shares, hurdle shares and flowering shares can be a useful tool in incentivising your employees. One such scheme, EMI options over growth…
Renowned Open Source Lawyer, expert speaker and author, Andrew Katz has co-authored a chapter in the newly published book, entitled Corporate and Global Standardization Initiatives in Contemporary Society. In Chapter ten, Andrew Katz, along with co-authors Björn Lundell (University of…
Moorcrofts’ corporate team has advised leading recruitment firm and recruitment software provider, Endorsed Group Limited, on a multimillion pound corporate reorganisation and merger of the Chapman Black and Elliot Browne Groups. Chapman Black is an award winning recruitment company and…
Moorcrofts recently advised the vendor shareholders of Mintec Limited, the leading provider of global pricing data and intelligence for non-traded food ingredients, on the sale of the company as part of a management buy-out which was supported by Synova Capital….
Equal pay and the gender pay gap have been hitting the headlines recently with the high-profile resignation of the BBC’s Carrie Gracie over unequal pay and the increasing number of organisations publishing details of their gender pay gap ahead of…
Morrison Supermarkets hit the headlines recently but almost certainly not the sort of positive pre-Christmas publicity they would have hoped for. In a decision that could have major implications for employers, not only in respect of data breaches but also…
A Wayleave Agreement gives a service provider a right to install its equipment through or over a third party’s land. In the past these have tended to be relevant to property developers but the growing reliance on fast IT connectivity…
There may be many reasons to why you wish to consider a reorganisation of your company and a tidy up of your share capital and balance sheet. It could be that the regulatory or economic climate has changed or that…
In a bid to combat slavery and human trafficking, the Modern Slavery Act (“MSA”) introduced in March 2015, requires large organisations to publish an annual slavery and human trafficking statement. Known as section 54 of the MSA, this is a…
The decision of the EAT in the recent Uber case to uphold the original decision of the Employment Tribunal that Uber’s drivers are “workers” for employment law purposes, quite rightly attracted a lot of publicity. However, given the direction of the…