Christmas Parties: Festive Fun or Recipe for Disaster?

Christmas Parties: Festive Fun or Recipe for Disaster?

Whilst the joyful festivities of the ‘Christmas party season’ offer employees an opportunity to ‘let their hair down’, enjoy socialising and lift team morale; employers must navigate the yuletide period with caution, ensuring that ‘harmless banter’ does not encroach on inappropriate behaviour or worse, sexual harassment.  

Laytons ETL’s Equity Capital Markets team advises AIM-quoted United Oil & Gas plc on its recent Fundraising via an Accelerated Bookbuild

Laytons ETL’s Equity Capital Markets team advises AIM-quoted United Oil & Gas plc on its recent Fundraising via an Accelerated Bookbuild

Laytons ETL’s Equity Capital Markets team advised AIM-quoted Empyrean Energy Plc (the Company), the oil and gas development company with interests in Indonesia and the United States, on their recent share capital re-organisation in connection with a fundraising (the “Transaction”).

Family Investment Companies (FICs): An alternative and increasingly popular investment vehicle

Family Investment Companies (FICs): An alternative and increasingly popular investment vehicle

A Family Investment Company (“FIC”) is a private company formed with the specific intention of managing and holding investments for a single family. FICs have become a popular method of structuring wealth and passing it down to younger generations.

Laytons ETL’s Equity Capital Markets team advises AIM-quoted Empyrean Energy plc on Capital Reorganisation relating to a Fundraising

Laytons ETL’s Equity Capital Markets team advises AIM-quoted Empyrean Energy plc on Capital Reorganisation relating to a Fundraising

Laytons ETL’s Equity Capital Markets team advised AIM-quoted Empyrean Energy Plc (the Company), the oil and gas development company with interests in Indonesia and the United States, on their recent share capital re-organisation in connection with a fundraising (the “Transaction”).

Kwik-Fit Suffers Break (Clause) Failure

Kwik-Fit Suffers Break (Clause) Failure

This County Court lease renewal case under Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (“LTA 1954”) relates to the tenant’s attempt to include a break clause in a renewal lease and is a notable application of the Court’s approach to determining renewal lease terms set out in the leading case of O'May v City of London Real Property Co Ltd [1983] AC 726 (“O’May”).  


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