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Evoke Creative – the leading specialist in kiosk, digital signage and interactive solutions for the retail, hospitality and public sectors – has acquired Liverpool-based app design and development agency, Apposing, as part of their wider expansion strategy.

Evolution Funding Group, the leading motor finance broker and technology provider to the UK used car market, has completed the acquisition of automotive software and digital services provider Click Dealer Limited for an undisclosed sum. The transaction marks a significant move to broaden Evolution’s digital and SaaS proposition.

Award-winning Liverpool and London-based lawyers and business advisers, O’Connors Legal Services Limited, has appointed corporate lawyer Craig Geraghty as an Associate.

The prospect of soon being able to embrace family and friends reminds me of the teenager who bought a book on eBay entitled ‘How to Hug’ and was galled to discover it was Volume 6 of Encyclopedia Britannica. That poor teenager could easily have been me. I once ordered The Wallis Family Global Directory via an advert in my dad’s Reader’s Digest magazine to find even my own family wasn’t in it.

In February 2009, the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, said that the main problem with conventional currency is that it relies on trust to make it work. Central banks, he said, must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of government-issued currencies is full of breaches of that trust.

The dental sector is heavily regulated, which can make the process of selling and buying a dental practice quite complex. Throw in an NHS contract and the process becomes more complex still.

Whatever your view of the EU Brexit trade deal (or the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, to give it its proper title) it was bound to present future challenges for the UK and the EU. Few though would have predicted that the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out would be one of them. The AstraZeneca and EU dispute has highlighted just how careful you need to be when drafting clauses in business contracts relating to the supply of goods and services cross-border, and the value of checking the small print.

Liverpool and London-based firm of lawyers and business advisers, O’Connors, has launched a new digital-friendly brand identity and website as its sectoral work with insurance businesses, legal businesses and investment funds takes its service offering across the UK and beyond.

Liverpool and London-based legal and business advisers, O’Connors, has appointed corporate solicitor Kerry Brooks to support its regional and national expansion plans following a strong 2020 performance.

An Egyptian conglomerate worth billions of dollars has invested $120m to take control of the Right To Dream academy, which was founded in Ghana in 1999 by a former Manchester United scout.