Assisting with Planning Applications
A stitch in time may save nine, and in that context there are many reasons why it may be best if we acted as your agent when making a planning application:
- An application may result in a planning permission with onerous conditions, which could have been negotiated away
- An application may result in the need for s.106 planning obligations, and early involvement can save both time and money; and
- An application may result in a refusal and the need to consider reapplying, or lodging an appeal, or both, and timely advice would be at a premium.
Advice on Complicated Planning-Conditional Acquisitions
When seeking to acquire land (or sell) on a planning-conditional basis, expert advice is necessary to minimise risk, including consideration of:
- The proposed timescales for dealing with planning, and when it is reasonable to extend these
- Careful consideration of potential onerous conditions
- Deductible expenses, including CIL and s.106 and the risk of “double dipping”
- Viability and affordable housing
- The threat of judicial review, and what it might mean for your deal.
GSC’s Tax Team is internationally focused. Our clients are highly mobile, business leaders…
International Corporate Tax
International corporate tax services in London
GSC’s Tax Team is internationally focused. Our clients are highly mobile, business leaders and entrepreneurs based in regions such as Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Republics and South East Asia. Meeting their needs requires more than legal expertise; it takes cultural awareness, a global mind set and broad linguistic capabilities.
This is why GSC tax lawyers come so highly recommended. They have built up a high degree of expertise in understanding high-net-worth individuals in all tax aspects of corporate, commercial and financial transactions, with a particular understanding of those transactions’ impact on personal tax.
- We provide comprehensive tax planning advice for foreign individuals looking to relocate or invest into the UK
- We help entrepreneurs realise the sale of their successful ventures in the most tax efficient manner
- We advise on the most tax efficient structure to own UK Real Estate
- We use our cross-border experience and knowledge to develop tax structures for inward investment in the UK and internationally.
Commercial disputes can have far reaching consequences. They can affect existing…
Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution
International commercial litigation law firm
Commercial disputes are an unavoidable part of business and personal life.
When they become part of yours, trust GSC to make life easier.
Commercial disputes can have far-reaching consequences. They can affect existing business and people’s lives, damage relationships and jeopardise future success. That is why GSC takes a realistic and practical view when handling disputes. From start to finish we aim to adopt a commercial and cost-effective approach, designed to achieve an outcome that works for our clients and their business.
We advise on many forms of disputes. Our team have decades of experience in dispute resolution – in the Courts, at specialist tribunals or using arbitration and when appropriate mediation – because of this not many things phase us. When we say we are “hands-on”, we mean it. We work in small focused teams, dedicated to our clients and driven to protect and care for their interests. We always have an eye on cost management. Our service is designed especially for each of our clients and, unlike many of our rivals, not simply processed. We advise on many forms of disputes. Our team have decades of experience in dispute resolution – in the Courts, at specialist tribunals or using arbitration and when appropriate mediation – because of this not many things phase us.
Talk to GSC about disputes (both international and domestic) involving the following:
• Jurisdictional disputes including anti-suit injunctions and conflict of laws
• Emergency injunctions (freezing and search and seizure orders)
• Commercial contracts
• Company/shareholders and partnerships
• Fraud
• Commercial and residential property disputes
• Contentious probate
• Debt recovery
• Costs Disputes including security for costs applications
This list is by no means exhaustive. Over the years we have handled many types of cases and we are not shy; if we think you would better served by more specialist advice or would be better served by retaining lawyers in other countries, we can make the introduction from our many contacts built up over many years.
Patents
We can help you at every stage of the patent registration process, including drafting suitable confidentiality agreements to prevent any early publication of your invention that would otherwise undermine your application for a patent.
We can advise on the registration of patents in the UK and also around the world through our network of associated advisers.
If you are concerned that someone is infringing your patent, we can help you take action to protect your rights.
We can also assist you in utilising your patent to its fullest extent by advising on the licensing of the patent and drafting the appropriate agreements.
Confidential Information and Privacy
We advise on the extent to which information may be private or confidential and so subject to legal protection – as well as helping you protect your information or privacy.
If you are threatened with a claim for a breach of confidentiality or privacy, we can advise on the merits of that claim and help you defend such a claim in court.
We can provide appropriate confidentiality or “non-disclosure agreements” (often referred to as NDAs) so that you can deal safely with protected information.
Where issues of confidentiality arise in the context of employment, please see our employment pages.
Data Protection and the Right to Be Forgotten
There are many ways in which you might be affected by the laws on data protection, ranging from the management of staff or customer information to the use of CCTV to protect your home or business.
We can advise as to whether you are a “data controller” or “data processor” and, if so, your obligations under the law.
We also can advise as to the use of data that relates to you. The laws on data protection can be a powerful tool for protecting your information, privacy and reputation as well as for obtaining evidence for use in litigation or elsewhere.
We can also make formal requests for the removal of personal information from databases and web search engines result where the retention of that information is no longer reasonably required.
Database Rights
All databases take time, effort and money to compile and build. Whether it is a database of client contact details, arrangement of other copyright works or a database of working information, we can help you understand the extent to which any databases that you have created are protected and assist you if any rights in those databases are infringed.
Infringement of database right is often a result of information being copied and exploited by a former employee. Where such an issue arises, we can work with our employment team to resolve all issues in a timely and efficient manner.
Design Rights
There can appear to be a bewildering array of registered and unregistered designs, both at national and European Union level.
We can advise on the extent to which your designs may qualify for protection under one or all of these rights and for how long each right will remain protected.
Where you are bringing new products to the market and are wanting to rely on registered design right protection, it is important to ensure you take early legal advice on how the right should be registered and how you can avoid inadvertently preventing your registration from being accepted.
If you are threatened with a claim for design right infringement, we can advise on the merits of that claim and on the ways you can defend such a claim in correspondence or the court.
Moral Rights
Authors and performers have “moral rights” in addition to any copyright or performers’ rights.
These moral rights can be incredibly important to authors and performers to ensure that their works are treated with integrity and correctly attributed to them. We can help you enforce your moral rights even where the copyright in the work is no longer owned by you.
