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Wollastons successfully completed the strategic sale of Coexis Limited to GBST Holdings Limited (GBST), an Australian company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, on 9th December 2008. Both GBST and Coexis are providers of securities transaction and fund administration software for the financial services industry. GBST is ranked 42 in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia Program. |
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The availability of funding for M&A activity is increasingly hard to come by, but those with access to funds will find opportunities to acquire businesses in distress offered at knock-down prices. |
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Wollastons' Consultant, Nicholas Cook was a key speaker participating in Essex County Council's week long Inward Investment Trade Mission to Jiangsu Province, China in late November. The Mission visited Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuxi.
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Wollastons, Consultant, Nicholas Cook, together with Senior Associate Joanne Goobey and Nick Taylor (a partner with Elwell Taylor Chartered Surveyors), presented a Commercial Property Seminar on the subject of Dilapidation Claims in Commercial Leasehold Property to a audience of Essex Chartered Surveyors and landowners at the Anglia Ruskin University. |
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Emma Smith, Accounts Manager at Wollastons, has qualified for the prestigious 'British Dressage Winter Championships 2009' at the Petplan Equine Area Festivals. |
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On 1 October 2008 a further series of changes to company law will take effect by virtue of the commencement of a number of sections of the Companies Act 2006. A number of these are of direct relevance to your business and are therefore important issues for any company director to consider carefully. |
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Wollastons is one of only 36 professional service firms in the country approved by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) to act as a 'Support Organisation' to businesses on a brand new system of immigration control which is set to replace the old Work Permit scheme this autumn. |
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Wollastons would like to congratulate TNT Express Services, Basildon who won both the Best Company Training Programme and the Environmental Awareness category awards for large businesses and then went on to be presented with the coveted overall Essex Business of the Year Awards. |
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On Sunday 14th September, a team from leading Essex law firm Wollastons, took part in the sixth annual 'Essex Dragon Boat Race' 2008, held by the Anthony Nolan Trust, at Paper Mill Lock in Little Baddow. |
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Corporate Associate Solicitor, Adam Kudryl, and Property Solicitor, Scott Simmons from leading Essex law firm, Wollastons, took part in the 12th annual Tour de Rodings cycle ride along with 630 cyclists to raise funds for Farleigh Hospice. |
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On Sunday 6th July a team of 10 from Wollastons ran alongside 25,000 other participants in the 2008 Asics British 10K London Run to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. The event is now in its 8th year and raised a total of £2 million in 2007 for the charity. |
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On 17 July, Wollastons Consultant Nicholas Cook hosted a free evening commercial property law seminar "A landlords guide to commercial tenant default in a credit crunch." |
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On Wednesday 11 June 200 businesses from all over Essex and beyond took part in the annual Race for Business, which was hosted by Wollastons Solicitors in Chelmsford for the 10th year. |
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Leading Essex commercial law firm Wollastons LLP has recruited a property litigation specialist, Joanne Goobey, to join its highly successful property team. |
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The celebrity guest and official starter of the 2008 Race for Business will be Sir Trevor Brooking. |
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On 22 and 30 April Wollastons' employment law team held two free half-day employment law seminars at Waterfront Place, Chelmsford covering the latest developments in this ever-changing area of law. |
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Richard Wollaston recently handed over a cheque for £44,534.00 to Farleigh Hospice, representing the record total raised by the runners and businesses who supported the 2007 Wollastons Race for Business. |
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Leading Essex commercial law firm Wollastons LLP has recruited a new property lawyer, Scott Simmons, to join its highly successful property team. |
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Wollastons has been highly recommended and 'top-ranked' alongside the best City and regional law firms in the new 2008 edition of the Chambers UK Guide. This independent review of the UK Legal profession describes Wollastons as 'an efficient operation that provides impeccable service'. |
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Wollastons are once again joint main sponsors of the Essex Business Awards. The Awards are designed to recognise and promote the very best companies and business entrepreneurs in Essex. |
Wollastons Consultant Nicholas Cook was one of the speakers at the prestigious 2008 Essex Property Conference held at Stock Brook Country Club. |
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Wollastons LLP has been representing Essex County Cricket Club in the proposed £60 million plus re-development of the Club's Chelmsford site. Nicholas Cook, a consultant in the Wollastons Property department, leads the legal team advising the Club. |
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Wollastons has recruited three new assistant solicitors to join its Corporate, Commercial Litigation and Family teams. In addition Patrick Gass has now qualified into the Employment department and three new trainee solicitors have joined the firm. |
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Wollastons has been named as a 'Regional Heavyweight' in The Legal 500, which was published in September 2007. We are the only Essex firm to be awarded this ranking, and have now achieved this title for the sixth year running. |
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The question of how much compensation is due to an agent on early termination of their contract will now be based on the value of the agency business as at the date of termination by the principal. This is an important change and the upshot of this decision will affect companies who operate agency contracts now or who are planning to in the future. |
Nicholas Cook, who is the immediate past Chairman of the Essex Branch of the Institute of Directors, has now been elected as a National Council member. |
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Leading Essex commercial law firm Wollastons LLP recently advised the Hornagold & Hills partnership on an £11m sale of its business and assets to the Mouchel Parkman Group. |
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