Mark Hook

Topics

• Starting up
• Ownership and management
  • Administrative requirements
  • The board of directors
  • Shares and shareholders
  • Shareholder and boardroom disputes
  • Family businesses
• Finance and strategy
  • Raising finance
  • Floating your business
  • Buying another business
  • Mergers, joint ventures and cartels
  • Dealing with insolvency
• Employment law
  • Recruitment and employment contracts
  • Pay and pensions
  • Working time: hours, leave, flexible working
  • Internet, email and other policies
  • Sickness and sick pay
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption
  • Discrimination
  • Managing homeworkers, remote workers, lone workers
  • Information and consultation
  • Discipline and grievance
  • Dismissals and redundancies
  • Employment tribunals
• Sales and marketing
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Consumer protection
  • Distance and online selling
  • Using agents and distributors
  • Importing and exporting
  • Offering credit to consumers
• Business contracts
• Commercial disputes
  • Dispute resolution
  • Going to court
  • Debt recovery
  • IP disputes
• Premises law
  • Your premises options
  • Getting out of a lease
  • Rent reviews
  • Managing your premises
  • Planning permission and building controls
• Health and safety
  • Managing health and safety
  • Carrying out a risk assessment
  • Environmental regulations
• Data protection and IT
  • Data protection
  • IT law
• Intellectual property
  • Trade marks
  • Copyright
  • Design right and registration
  • Patents
• Exit strategies
  • Succession planning
  • Selling your business
  • Exiting a family business
• Personal law
  • Cohabitation, separation and divorce
  • Personal injury
  • Property law
  • Powers of attorney
  • Family trusts and inheritance tax
  • Wills and probate

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