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Oct 16, 2024 | 
engineeringnews.co.za | Christopher Jones |Sheila Barradas |Irma Venter
By: Christopher Jones - Environmental Specialist at Airports Company South AfricaIn an era where climate change is at the forefront of global concerns, the aviation industry finds itself at a critical juncture. While historically known for its significant carbon footprint, the sector is now embracing a transformative shift towards a more holistically sustainable focus.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
business-live.co.uk | Christopher Jones |Chris Jones
CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software is a sales automation tool that helps companies streamline and optimise their quote-to-cash process. CPQ solutions provide capabilities like guided selling, configurable products, pricing management, proposal generation, approvals workflow, and contract management. Adopting CPQ can benefit companies in numerous ways. CPQ software offers a wide range of benefits to your business.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Christopher Jones |Keaghan Krog |Matthew Ridley |Jay Janusz
The importance of green technology to society has seen the
implementation a number of fast-track patent programmes for green
technology by patent offices around the globe. When considering
international patent filing strategies for green technology
inventions it is worth keeping in mind the requirements to access
these accelerated routes.
There are currently several countries with fast-track programmes
for green technology patent applications.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
business-live.co.uk | Christopher Jones |Chris Jones
Nearly 100 years ago, Harry Ramsden opened his first fish and chip shop in a wooden hut in West Yorkshire. Through a commitment to quality and unique signature recipe, the brand grew to become one of the UK’s most recognisable food and beverage institutions. Generations of Brits have been enjoying Harry Ramsden’s since 1928, now the brand is looking for potential franchisees further afield.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
law.com | Christopher Jones |Katie Leesman |Lea Phillips
With additional tax credit value available to energy projects under the Inflation Reduction Act, renewable energy companies should closely evaluate their project locations—particularly those projects that may be located in a “brownfield area,” given the recent changes in law related to emerging contaminants perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), and certain “bonus credits” available to projects in those locations.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
ballardspahr.com | Christopher Jones |Katie Leesman |Lea Phillips
With additional tax credit value available to energy projects under the Inflation Reduction Act, renewable energy companies should closely evaluate their project locations—particularly those projects that may be located in a “brownfield area,” given the recent changes in law related to PFAS, or "forever chemicals", and certain bonus credits available to projects in those locations. Writing in The Legal Intelligencer, Christopher A. Jones, Katie Leesman, and Lea A.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
northwestbylines.co.uk | Christopher Jones
In January 2023, the directive came into effect, building upon the original directive of 2016 that set out legal requirements for cybersecurity across the EU. What is it? NIS2 aims to enhance the resilience and incident response capabilities in both the public and private sectors. It specifically focuses on combating cybercrime as digitisation increases. New sectors include energy, transport, healthcare, water and wastewater, food, motor vehicles, manufacturing and more.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Christopher Jones |Karam Putros
On June 20, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA)
issued a notice regarding Coordinated Blanket Order
31-930 - Exemption to Allow Exempt Market Dealer Participation
in Selling Groups in Offerings of Securities under a
Prospectus (order), which will temporarily allow exempt market
dealers (EMDs) to participate in prospectus offerings as a member
of a selling group, subject to certain limitations.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Christopher Jones |Joe Zed |Karam Putros
As part of its mandate to foster capital formation and
competitive capital markets, the Ontario Securities Commission
(OSC) has recently introduced certain time-limited initiatives to
improve access to capital for early-stage businesses in Ontario. These initiatives include creating new dealer registration
exemptions for early-stage businesses and not-for-profit angel
investor groups and extending the self-certified investor
prospectus exemption pilot program.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Christopher Jones |Joe Zed |Karam Putros
As part of its mandate to foster capital formation and competitive capital markets, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has recently introduced certain time-limited initiatives to improve access to capital for early-stage businesses in Ontario. These initiatives include creating new dealer registration exemptions for early-stage businesses and not-for-profit angel investor groups and extending the self-certified investor prospectus exemption pilot program.
