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Retention money and insolvency: a common sense approach?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • Malaysia, United Kingdom
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  • April 22 2013

The retention of a proportion of the contractor's fee is common practice in construction contracts. The parties sometimes agree (usually in unamended

A summary of major developments in key areas

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, Indonesia, Myanmar, United Kingdom
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  • March 7 2013

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and institutional bodies have published the following guidance in relation to corporate governance and

Preview 2013 (UK law)

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2013

2013 will herald some significant changes to the UK legal arena, notably in the corporate area in relation to executive remuneration and narrative

General Counsel update - legal guide edition 32

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, United Kingdom
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  • November 29 2012

A summary of major developments in key areas

Liquidated damages - be careful how you draft them

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 30 2012

Over the last few years, the courts have shown themselves to be increasingly unwilling to interfere in the level of liquidated damages set in building contracts

Consultant insolvency: be alert

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 17 2012

For those institutions carrying out building projects at the moment the recent news that the holding company of Currie & Brown was in administration at the time of its acquisition by Middle East-based consultant Dar Group raised fresh concerns that there may be more victims of this period of economic instability

Consultant insolvency - be alert

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 15 2012

The recent news that the holding company of Currie & Brown was in administration at the time of its acquisition by Middle East-based consultant Dar Group raises fresh concerns that there may be more victims of this period of economic instability

Director of unincorporated association personally liable for association’s breach of contract

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 16 2011

An English rugby club (an unincorporated association of its members) engaged the services of Barnes Webster & Sons, a construction company

Construction insolvencies - what does it mean for your projects?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 3 2011

According to the credit insurer, Euler Helmes, there were more insolvencies in construction than in any other sector during the first six months of 2011

If your US client or customer goes bust don’t make it worse

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 31 2011

Insolvency of your client or customer is bad news, even if, these days, it comes as no surprise