News & Views

As you may have heard on the grapevine, Mrs Claus and I will not be working this Christmas. We have managed to bag a last-minute package deal to the Democratic Republic of Barbados and, whilst we appreciate the timing is not ideal, Mrs Claus feels we need some time out to thaw our frost-bitten joints.

O'Connors has advised the shareholders of Assista Consulting on its sale to LOGEX Group.

Business lawyers and advisers O'Connors has advised the owners of Pescado Limited on the sale of the company to Arrow Business Communications Limited.

PHD Equity Partners – the private equity arm of Dow Schofield Watts – is pioneering a new structure that will enable it to follow a longer term investment model and increase liquidity for investors.

The focus of most articles on Brexit and financial services has been on how Solvency II will impact the way insurers (and other financial institutions) do business now that the UK has left the EU and declined to remain in the single market. Important though this issue is, for many UK-based insurance brokers, the more pressing Brexit issue has been the loss of access to the EU single passport regime under the Insurance Distribution Directive.

Now that the so-called ‘Freedom Day’ has come and gone, we have been reflecting on the events of the last 18 months or so and the impact of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) business interruption insurance test case. The Supreme Court’s judgment in the test case was headline news in the insurance and national press for weeks, and the tremors it created still reverberate in the marketplace today.

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.