David Rayner, partner from Birkett Long’s Commercial Property Team discusses the “big themes” that are likely to affect commercial premises during 2012. From the perspective of both landlords/investors on the one hand and tenants/occupiers...

Tougher economic environments often see a greater amount of restructuring within businesses, including a demerger. There are a number of reasons why a company may want to demerge: - to unlock shareholder value (sometimes enabling an exit by one party); - to...

The new regulations The new Public Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2009 came into force on 20th December 2009. They introduce important new remedies for breach of the EU procurement rules. Well, what was the old system? Under the previous system,...

Background For a long time, the received wisdom within procurement circles was that development agreements were not subject to normal EU procurement legislation on the basis that they were not public works contracts. However, the tide has turned and...

The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (the ”Regulations”) require public contracting authorities to apply a compulsory waiting period between their decision to award a contract to which the Regulations apply and the date on which the contract is...