Nathalie Bowen

Jul 9, 2024 | mondaq.com | Sarah Jordan |Nathalie Bowen |Nigel Boobier

How can creditors reduce the risk of a fixed charge being characterised as floating? The determination as to whether a charge over a valuable asset is fixed or floating can be crucial to a creditor's recovery in an insolvency. To have two cases over the course of little more than a year providing detailed analysis of the nature of fixed and floating charges is indeed a treat. Are there any practical steps creditors can take to reduce the risk of a fixed charge being characterised as floating?

Jan 12, 2024 | lexology.com | Catherine Hammon |Catherine Shepherd |Charlie Hennig |Clareine Enderby |Colette Brimble |David Soerensen | +19 more

Our Knowledge Lawyers have picked out particular legal developments affecting business, as certain already legislated-for regulatory changes and rules come into effect, new legislation passes, and long-awaited litigation on complex points continues to progress through the courts. Digital regulationOnline safety2023 saw the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) finally receive Royal Assent and 2024 will see much work by Ofcom, the designated online safety regulator, to bring it into effect.

Jul 19, 2023 | lexology.com | Nick Thody |Catherine Shepherd |Kath Sadler-Smith |Jennie Graham |Colette Brimble |Robyn Trigg | +17 more

In January 2023 our Osborne Clarke Knowledge Lawyers made their business law predictions for 2023. Here, we see how those predictions are faring. GeneralWe thought that "businesses and their advisers are likely to sharpen their focus on the Opposition's emerging plans for the economy" – perhaps not the craziest of predictions, and we can put a tick next to that one.