Members of chambers regularly deliver lectures and participate in workshops at conferences, seminars and at in-house events arranged by client firms. The activity is positively encouraged by Chambers which regards it as an important and mutually beneficial aspect of Chambers’practice.
Members are happy to speak in conjunction with other members or speakers from the event organiser and deliver lectures on topics chosen by themselves or the event organiser.
Set out below is a list of some of the titles and topics on which members of chambers can speak. In addition, members of Chambers can provide lectures or seminars on all aspects of the Companies Act 2006. For further details and enquiries on these or other topics please contact the clerks.
Appeals – to the Judge, to the Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court – practice and pitfalls
Pre Pack Administrations
Cross-border mergers under the European Merger Directive
Shareholders Meetings: Practical Problems
Common Pitfalls in Corporate Transactions
Securities, priorities and the funding of corporate insolvency
Company Directors: Law and Liability
Creditors’ Schemes of Arrangement and Company Voluntary Arrangements
Difficult Company Meetings
Shareholder Protection
Directors’ Duties – Recent developments
Financial Assistance – General Principles
Financial Assistance – Inducement Fees
Financial Assistance - Current issues and problems
Reductions of Capital
Maintenance of Capital
Recent developments in relation to schemes of arrangement
Elimination of a post-takeover minority
Unfair Prejudice applications – practice and procedure
Liquidation, Administration and Company Voluntary Arrangements - An Introduction
EC Insolvency Regulation and cross-border security issues
Inter-creditor agreements (contractual subordination and trust subordination)
Fixed/floating security - post Spectrum Plus – re-characterisation etc.
The Adjustment of Transactions under sections 238, 239 and 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986
Corporate issues in a litigation context
Defectively Registered Charges