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This article first appeared in the International In-house Counsel Journal (IICJ) Vol 16 No 62 2023 By Buchler Phillips: David Buchler, Prof David Fordham and Jo Milner and DLA Piper: Natalie Peacock, Chris Parker, John Forrest and James Davison 1    Background 1.1...

Buchler Phillips (BP) and Business Links Consultancy (BLC) are delighted to announce a unique joint venture, offering clients a wide range of consulting and market access services for Europe, the Middle East and Asia via the strategic Mediterranean hub of Cyprus....

Exactly three years since the first Covid lockdown, the UK is the last of the G7 economies to recover to pre-pandemic levels. Brexit and war in Ukraine have hiked input prices, not least energy and raw materials, for several UK manufacturers that were allowed to...

HSBC’s swift purchase of the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm was a lifeline to thousands of technology businesses regarded as pivotal to sustainable economic recovery, post-Brexit and post-Pandemic. One leading UK private equity investor focused on the tech...

Jeremy Hunt became only the second of the five politicians since mid-2019 to have held the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer and survive long enough in office to deliver a Budget. Calm reassurance remains at the heart of his style and substance. Not for him the...

AIRLINE ECONOMICS ‘GROWTH FRONTIERS’ EUROPE - London 2022 Enjoy watching extracts from the 60' discussion on ‘Balance sheet and debt management’ Moderator: Victoria Tozer-Pennington, Editor, Airline Economics Panel: Peter Davies (Founder, Airline Management Group)...

London is showing few signs of losing its crown as Europe’s leading financial centre. Globally, it’s still not far behind New York; in some respects it may even be ahead. Post-Brexit, the European Central Bank is understandably unhappy that the world’s second largest...

Don’t be fooled by the relatively low headline figure for company insolvency figures in January. At 1,671 the number for England and Wales was 7% up on January 2022 and 11% higher than the pre-pandemic period in 2020. It doesn’t sound too terrible, given the economic...

Those planning to buy a greetings card to give a loved one on February 14 may have fewer options following last week’s fall into administration of high street stationery chain Paperchase. Failure to find a buyer for the troubled business has seen supermarket giant...

The ticking timebomb of energy price related insolvencies has almost certainly been brought forward by the government's decision to withdraw energy bill support. The existing scheme for businesses will be cut dramatically from April, piling on the woe for UK...

Consumers were paying almost 30% more for a loaf of bread at the end of 2022 than they had been at the beginning of the year. The price, however, doesn’t even begin to reflect the soaring costs faced by bakeries, a sector heading for a wave of insolvencies. As an...

Napoleon would struggle to call England a nation of shopkeepers these days, if the relentless woe in the retail sector is an indication of things to come. The Centre for Retail Research isn’t hopeful. It expects up to another 18,000 UK shops to close this year –...