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    • Jul 5, 2023

    Part 1 – Enterprise management incentive (emi) share option plans

    1. What is it? 1.1 As a share option plan, the EMI offers selected participants the opportunity to purchase shares at a specified time and price agreed at the time the options are granted. 1.2 Individual performance and retention conditions

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    • Jul 5, 2023

    Part 4 – Dashboards dashed?

    Key message despite the uncertainty in connection staging dates, schemes should continue to keep dashboard connection high on their agenda. (1) Overview The grand old Duke of York marched his troops up to the hill and then down again.  The

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    • Jun 22, 2023

    A reminder of the scope of section 73 applications

    The recent case of Armstrong v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [2023] EWHC 176 (Admin) has further clarified the scope of section 73 applications, rejecting the notion that they can only be used to secure ‘minor

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    • Jun 22, 2023

    Can I re-purpose my premises?

    Perplexed by property law? Our Professional Support Lawyer Gemma Cook is here to answer your most pressing questions. I am a tenant of office premises. I no longer need the office space for my own business purposes and given the

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    • News
    • Jun 22, 2023

    Can the government block your property acquisition?

    The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (“NSI Act”) gives the UK government the power to scrutinise, impose conditions and, in rare cases, block acquisitions of properties and/or companies in the UK on national security grounds. The NSI Act came

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    • Jun 22, 2023

    De-coding the electronic communications code

    Most landlords have at least a rudimentary understanding of the key principles behind the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, but the same cannot be said for the Electronic Communications Code (variously referred to as the ‘Telecoms Code’, the ‘2017 Code’

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    • Jun 22, 2023

    Driving change

    One of our most requested set of works for licences to alter at the moment is to permit electric vehicles to be charged at the workplace. So what are the relevant factors for tenants and their advisors to consider? Considerations

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    • Jun 22, 2023

    Insurance commissions

    Following the 2017 Grenfell tragedy, there has been a significant rise in the cost of buildings insurance to leaseholders in multi-occupancy properties. One contributing factor is commissions – the proportion of premiums paid to brokers and third parties. A recent

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