DFA Law client Camborne Capital has formally entered a partnership with sPower and its principal shareholder, Fir Tree Partners, to acquire, develop and construct large-scale solar PV assets in the UK under the FIT, ROC and CFD regimes. sPower is…
The way in which a business is structured has many ramifications and can be especially important on sale, as a recent case shows. It involved a bakery company specialising in the sale of Turkish style products. When the business was…
High end Jermyn Street shirt maker Thomas Pink Limited has triumphed in a High Court trade mark dispute with 'sexy, mass market' retailers Victoria's Secret over the use of the word 'PINK' on the latter’s goods and shop fronts. Thomas…
An experienced and respected insolvency practitioner who paid out almost £550,000 from a company in liquidation when she should not have done has been found liable to repay every penny after the High Court found that she had slipped below…
When an organisation fails to follow its own rules, the result can be the nullification of decisions taken and, in appropriate circumstances, those who have transgressed the rules can be liable for their mistakes. Recently, the Court of Appeal was…
If you supply electronic products (telecommunications, broadcasting and e-services) to non-business customers through online sales, you should start thinking about how you will comply with the new VAT 'place of supply' rules that will come into force on 1 January…
A company which wants to build an enormous solar energy farm on a site in Suffolk, equivalent in size to almost 65 football pitches, has had its hopes of winning planning permission for the scheme boosted by a High Court…
Tribunal judges resorted to a Great British Bake Off-style taste test before ruling that the makers of popular ‘Snowball’ snacks should receive VAT rebates totalling more than £2.8 million – because they are technically cakes. Confectioners Lees of Scotland Limited…
Corporate consultants who assisted a company in seeing off a shareholder rebellion have won the right to a $300,000 success fee after a judge rejected arguments that they had done nothing to deserve such an unwarranted windfall. The consultants had…
A bitterly disappointed law firm which bid unsuccessfully for public contracts worth up to £50 million is suing the government amidst accusations that the tendering process was undermined by manifest errors and unequal treatment. The firm had lodged tenders with…