Clyde & Co and Eversheds will advise Yum! Brands, the company behind Pizza Hut and KFC, for the first time having been appointed as part of a new eight-firm panel in the UK. The firms will be joined on the panel by HowardKennedyFsi, Squire Sanders and Collins Dryland & Thorowgood, which will advise on real […]
Maybe it’s all the frosty weather, or the sheer price of flowers on Valentines Day, but we’ve been doing a lot of thinking about legal fees. Who gets paid what, and how? So, following our analysis of UK public M&A fees – and the revelation that lawyers take home an average of 29.4 per cent […]
The most recent figures from the Department for Education (DfE) reveal that a total of 2.2 million teaching days were lost to sickness absence in England in the 2011–12 academic year. This equates to an average of 4.5 sick days per teacher per year. With schools being stretched more than ever before, a failure to […]
DLA Piper has been named Law Firm of the Year at the 2014 Legal Business Awards, held on 13 February at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The accolade is awarded to firms that the judges consider to have achieved more than their direct competitors and peers. The judges concluded that it had been an […]
On 23 October 2013, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the long-running case of Woodland v Essex County Council and in the process rewrote the common law. This will no doubt get lawyers very excited, but let’s look at what it means for schools that delegate certain functions to contractors. The background to this […]
Eversheds has advised consumer electronics retailer Expansys on its recommended takeover by celebrity entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den panellist Peter Jones. The offer was originally announced on 15 January with a revised increased offer announced on 12 February. Subject to the receipt by Peter Jones of sufficient acceptances, the offer will result in Expansys ceasing to […]
According to recent figures, 2,481 secondary schools have converted to academy status, 883 schools have opened as academies with a sponsor, 1,500 primary schools have become or are in the process of becoming academies and 174 free schools have opened with a further 116 in the pipeline. The governors of these schools are taking on legal, […]
Eversheds partner and tax expert Giles Salmond has said that countries such as Luxembourg are likely to lose out when EU rules on value-added tax (VAT) on e-commerce transactions come into force in 2015. He said: ‘The change in VAT rules from 1 January 2015 will affect B2C suppliers of telecoms, e-commerce and broadcasting. Currently, […]
By Alan Harper Schools, colleges and universities, like any organisation or business, frequently use and create intellectual property (IP), for example drawings, photographs and logos, as part of their activities. It needs to be clear who owns the IP that is used or created to make sure that the rights vesting in it are owned by […]
Schools (including academies) are restricted by law on what they can and cannot charge for. They cannot charge for education provided during school hours, but they can charge for ‘optional extras’ such as residential visits. The Department for Education has issued new advice reminding schools of what they are (and aren’t) entitled to charge for, and how to go about […]
Since 2011, the amount of capital funding a higher education institution (HEI) receives from the Higher Education Funding Council for England has depended on how much that HEI has reduced its carbon emissions. Each individual HEI in England has to have its own carbon reduction strategy, targets and associated carbon management plan. The carbon management plan […]
Michael Conroy Harris, construction expert at Eversheds, has said that there is no spare capacity in the UK construction industry following the floods. Commenting on the latest set of UK construction output figures, Harris said: ‘The latest figures are of course encouraging but we need to stop and consider how the current floods will have […]