International risks and meaningful due diligence
Despite disturbances in the commercial Force, such as Brexit or US tariffs, the UK is fundamentally a trading nation, buying and selling goods and services all around the
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How will US tariffs hit the UK?
How will America’s ‘Liberation Day’ hit UK businesses? After weeks of increasingly fevered speculation, we finally know how the main thrust of the pivot towards protectionism in the
How will building 300,000 new homes a year affect the UK’s housebuilders?
Within a week of its election in early July 2024, the new government was shouting from the rooftops about its ambitious plans to address the UK’s housing crisis
What is really going on with corporate insolvencies?
The corporate insolvency statistics for July 2024 published by the Insolvency Service showed that it was another worryingly busy month for business failures, although it was quieter than
How cross-border insolvency works in practice
Decades of increasing globalisation and the dominance of ever more complicated multi-national corporate groups have meant that even quite small and otherwise straightforward UK businesses have international relationships
Why do insolvency regimes differ so much around the world?
Trade has grown increasingly global in recent decades, generating greater volumes of cross-border issues. Some of these inevitably need resolving through some form of restructuring or insolvency process.