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During a Buchler Phillips recent breakfast event in London, British politician, former member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster and Buchler Phillips Consultant, The RT Hon Mark Field, gave us his View from the...

A well-known City figure wrote, in autumn 2019, about his annual get-back-to-work routine. Only six months before the first lockdown, he reminisced about having always started the school year in September with a new pair of black shoes, and how he’d continued the...

As towns and cities reopen in earnest and get busier this autumn, it’s great to see the curtain lifted on live entertainment again. Our love of opera at Buchler Phillips is well known, but as media disclaimers might say, other performance art forms are available!...

My first memory of Jimmy Greaves was when he played for Chelsea in the late 1950s. Even to a youngster like me, it was obvious that he was supremely gifted and able to play football at a different level to most others. When he left Chelsea in 1961 to join AC Milan, it...

Office life in city centres will have resumed this week for many workers, even if they don’t plan to be in every day. While many businesses are leaving town, surprised by how easy it’s been to operate remotely, those based on daily relationships and meetings with...

Where would we have been without technology during the pandemic? From Zoom calls and Slack messaging to streaming of entertainment, digital progress enabled us to stay working as best we could and kept us sane under lockdown. Nonetheless, even tech companies have felt...

The driver shortage has been an inevitability arising from a combination of factors in recent times, not least the many restrictions presented by Covid. Sadly for the transport and logistics sectors, as well as for so many supply chains, there is no quick fix to this...

Some of our more energetic readers, lately out of practice in their clubbing activities, may still be feeling the excesses of Sunday night and Monday morning, when revellers flocked to dancefloors and nightspots for the first time after a lengthy lockdown. Hopefully...

Freedom Day is approaching - and among the first to throw off their shackles will be economic policymakers, who have been operating in a state of suspended animation for the past 18 months. Their freedom may mean yet more restrictions for other economic...

Don’t be fooled by the figures – equally don’t panic just yet. Corporate insolvencies increased by 1,011 in May, up 8.8% on the previous month and a rise of 6.9% against May 2020. Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations have dominated, with Administrations relatively low....

Last week, the government proposed further extensions to existing insolvency measures: Restrictions on statutory demands and winding up petitions will remain for a further three months until 30 September 2021. This is to protect companies from creditor enforcement...

It was a recent, direct experience of ours. A client we were advising had absolutely no idea that bailiffs were going to show up on their front door on the 1st of June, with absolutely no prior warning! Having enquired about this, the courts confirmed that they were...