Devant Insights

Is your GDPR Privacy Notice Legal?

Is your GDPR Privacy Notice legal? The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently issued an annex to an enforcement notice analysing why the ICO considered that the privacy notices used by the company which had been fined did not meet the

Read More »
ripping up a contract

When it’s time to call it quits…

When it’s time to call it quits… …and end your agreement. The other party may have breached, but does that mean you can terminate your contract? A recent case has highlighted that terminating a contract for the other party’s breach

Read More »
shareholder agreement gone wrong

Shareholder Agreements

Why you need a shareholder agreement (even if you think you don’t). At the beginning of an agreement between founder shareholders, it can be common for opinions to be divided as to how best spend the often meagre amount of

Read More »
ESG

What are ESGs?

What are ESGs and how do they affect me? Sustainability and environmental issues have been hot topics for a while now and, if you’ve been wondering if these affect your business at all, you might be aware of the ESG

Read More »
company ownership

It’s your company but who owns it?

It’s your company…but who owns it?  Most businesses that have been trading for more than a few years will have a bit of a history of share transactions. This might mean that shares in your company have been issued, transferred

Read More »

Business Lessons from the year of Covid

Working life has changed dramatically over the last year. More of us than ever are working from home and ‘zooming’ has become a verb that no longer exclusively applies to whizzing around at speed! But what about our commercial contracting

Read More »
brexit regulationw

Will you be Brexit-ready by January 1st?

Although the UK officially left the EU almost a year ago, we’ve been working through a transition period. This means that even though we’re not in the EU, life has carried on more-or-less as normal (at least, as normal as anything could be in 2020!).

Read More »